Resources for Open source Linux Medical Apps

By | Published Sunday, March 11, 2012

For a new Linux users who are looking for resources to keep their machine running with Medical apps , trying , testing , or using . here is some helpful resources you may use .


1- LinuxMedNEWS : 

This blog is the most important source for years , listing even news about new release , updates , upgrades  for many open source Linux software 


Open source archive for thousandths of medical projects for Linux , Microsoft windows , many projects are Orphan , with no maintain , support , upgrade from the main developers , but the most active projects in the first pages of search query . 

3- List : 5 of the Best Free Linux Medical Practice Management Software - link  . 

4- 16 Top LINUX Medical applications - link . 

5- 15 Ubuntu Medical Applications at Repositories - link . 

6- Linux Medicine-HOWTO ( an old book , about Debian MED by : Gerardo Arnaez ) listed as a part of The Linux Documentation Project ( TLDP )  - link .

7 - 20 Linux Open source EMR , EHR and HIS – Hospital Information System Applications - link . 


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What's The best Linux Distro for Medical users ?

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Linux has thousandths of distros , It's all what the user wants from it's distor ( Stability , Customization , Development , Server , Media station ....... )  , but for productive environment such as hospitals , medical centers , development , it's all about ( Stability , Support , Upgrade ) .

As we tried many Linux distro , we suggest you to use the most up-gradable and supported . includes :


1- Linux Mint : 
    Linux Mint is built on ( Ubuntu and Debian ) and has amazing support , upgrades , it's for normal , advanced users and developers . LinuxMint  has many variations by using different DE ( KDE eidtion , LXDE and Gnome the default ) . Mint is not just a fancy eye-candy Linux distor , but they maintain and provide out-of-box distro , supplied with what the end user needs . 


2- Ubuntu : 

    Ubuntu has many variations regarding the DE ( Desktop environment ) and the end use ( Server , Netbook , Tablet ) and Education .  It's stable , supported through many communities and IRC chat channels . It's easy to find advanced Ubuntu users around you .  some of medical open source apps in Ubunut's reposit - link . 
3- Fedora : 

     Fedora , is developed by Redhat , but maintained by very wide open community around the world , has a good support and rich  repositories .

4- Debian : 

    Debian is most old wide supported Linux distro ,  It's stable , with very powerful support world wide as there are many distros built over it , including the most famous and used Linux Distro yet . 

For medical end-users those distors came with ease of use and ease to upgrade , maintain , though there are many other distors  , even Medical ones we suggest you to take a look and try for your self . 

Some Medical Linux Distors :









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Linux Medical Apps , the curse for not having Linux medical community

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First post in this blog , i decided to create and focus on reviewing open source medical projects as discussing the problems facing developers to continue , upgrade their open source projects .

Hopefully MedSteam as well is a team up between 2 developers , one of them is an Open source geek , professional developer and the other is doctor as well .

There are thousandths of medical projects as Google Code , Sourceforge.com , and now on repositories without updates or upgrades .

Open source medical projects facing issues including :


  1. Noncontinuous ( no upgrade , no backups ) except some of the lucky projects with support . 
  2. No upgrade , backups 
  3. No support . 

Even though many projects has very amazing features , ideas but they have other many disadvantage , the developer leave the project as an orphan , go for another project , sometimes before the project even mentioned or get the proper attention . 



Some developers are just students , finishing the project as a homework or to train themselves , learning new other languages . 

But some others  move to another project leaving either unfinished project or junk project . 

There was no support for many projects . We hope there will be an organization that fund and support , maintain such projects in the future . 

Yet there is few Linux medical communities for doctors . http://linuxmednews.com/ is just posting news about the same apps over and over again ( GNU MED , OpenEMR ) mostly because they have better support and more users . 


Ubuntu as the most used Linux Distro yet : we don't have a Linux Community how ever there are many Medical apps listed in the repositories  and maintained :  Some of  Ubuntu Medical Applications at Ubuntu Repositories  .  

Why there is no united medical developers community for Linux environment !

Linux is becoming more popular , and open sources already solved many issues for rural areas in poor countries like Argentina , Bangladesh , Egypt , and Kenya . 

Currently me and my friend are getting started to start our open source medical project , but we somehow afraid our work will face the same curse others faces for years . 

We created this blog to keep an eye on open source medical apps those are similar to our work and support health-care environment in rural areas . 








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