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GNU Health 2.8 series released

Item posted by Luis Falcon <meanmicio> on Mon 02 Feb 2015 01:29:22 PM UTC.

Dear GNU Health community

After 7 months of intense work, I am happy to announce GNU Health 2.8 series !

Here is a partial list of the new features :

Tryton 3.4 compatibility
Distributed environment, data aggregation and synchronization features
Universal Person Unique Identifier (PUID) and UUID implementation
Country immunization schedule
HL7 FHIR server (thank you, Chris Zimmerman !)
Automatic person immunization status check
Vital Records System : Birth and Death certificates
Enhanced security for Tryton server credentials
Injury Surveillance System (Thank you, Jamaica Ministry of Health !)
GNU Health control program : Automatic backups and patches
Enhanced Crypto features / GNU Privacy Guard integration
New models including in digital signatures
Demographics reports

There are many other improvements and bug fixes that have not been included in this summary document. You can read the Changelog for a detailed description of all the activity.

Installation

If you are installing GNU Health as the first time, follow the
instructions in https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Installation

Upgrade procedure

If you already have a GNU Health system in your health center, you should upgrade it to 2.8.0 . As always, the upgrade path is included in GNU Health. The upgrade for version 2.8.0 is straight forward :

Follow the Upgrade Instructions in the Wikibook
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Upgrade

Official Languages

GNU Health now includes English, Chinese, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish as the official languages. The language packs of the official languages are included in the GNU Health package, with all the modules, so there is no need to download.

There are over 100 language teams for GNU Health ! If you are a
language maintainer and want to include your language for the next stable release, please send us a mail to health@gnusolidario.org .

Thanks !

A big thank you to my colleagues from GNU Health community; GNU
Solidario; Thymbra and Tryton, and to the Free Software movement.

Enjoy the new version and report any bug / issues / improvements to health@gnu.org !

T : @gnuhealth

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Luis Falcon, MD
GNU Health
Freedom and Equity in Healthcare
http://health.gnu.org