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GNU Health Hospital Information System 5.0 series released

Item posted by Luis Falcon <meanmicio> on Mon 30 Jun 2025 12:15:32 AM UTC.

Dear community:

I am very happy to announce the release 5.0 series of the GNU Health Hospital Information System (HIS). This release it's the result of a tremendous amount of work that spanned for almost the last two years!

Series 5.0 represent a major leap in functionality, the underlying technology & project development.

Currently we have the vanilla version ready to be downloaded, via gnuhealth-control (see https://docs.gnuhealth.org/his/techguide/installation/vanilla.html#installation-with-gnu-health-control)

Specific GNU/Linux and FreeBSD packages, Ansible packages for HIS 5.0 and virtual machines images will come in the coming days / weeks.

The following paragraphs summarize the changes and features included in GNUHealth HIS 5.0. There are more features and information that has been left outside this document for the sake of brevity. You can look consult the Changelog at Codeberg.


New Functionality Features


Some of the new features include:

In the Laboratory Information System (Occhiolino)


Focus on Social Diseases


Medical Imaging


Patient Medication


Allergic status validation


Demographics


Insurances


Obstetrics


Medical Genetics




Summary of new features



Technology


The development environment is now at Codeberg


GNUHealth-Control as a single point for sysadmin tasks




GNU Health HIS 5.0 uses Tryton 7.0 LTS framework


Gunicorn as WSGI server


Increased Modularity



Packages are in the GNU Health Organization at PyPI


Minor number / patches at individual package level


Source code of GNU Health HIS and gnuhealth-control at GNU.org


Migrate to Poetry


Thank you to the GNU and GNU Health community, for delivering freedom, privacy and equity in healthcare around the world ♥

You can find short PDF presentation I made some weeks ago at the University of Entre Ríos, Argentina, about the new features in GNU Health HIS 5.0.

https://www.gnuhealth.org/downloads/media/new_features_gnuhealth_50.pdf

PS: In the coming days / weeks, we'll be polishing the documentation for this release. If you have any question or issue in the installation and/or upgrade, don't hesitate to send us a note at health @ gnu.org . Make sure you suscribe to the list ( https://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=health), otherwise your email will be automatically discarded to avoid spam.

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Happy hacking
Luis



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