GNUmed is an electronic medical records application for longitudinal patient care in general practice and other outpatient settings. It brings together clinical information from separate encounters, allowing practitioners to follow a patient’s medical history over time.
The software uses a client-server architecture, with a graphical client connected to a PostgreSQL database. It can serve an individual practitioner or multiple healthcare professionals accessing a shared database, including through remote connections. Its emphasis is on maintaining detailed clinical records and organising information relevant to continuing care.
Patient records are structured around health issues, episodes of care and individual encounters. Practitioners can combine narrative notes with structured clinical information, retrieve records from previous consultations and associate supporting documents with a patient’s history.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Patient registration and demographic records, including multiple identities, addresses, contact details and external identifiers.
- Search for patients using names, aliases, dates of birth and identifying information.
- Structured medical records organised by health issues, episodes and clinical encounters.
- Progress notes with SOAP-style documentation, chronological browsing and free-text searching.
- Allergy management with drug-specific and substance-class information, including recording when allergy status was reviewed.
- Medication management covering prescriptions, substance use, medication lists and links to external drug information sources.
- Clinical measurements and laboratory results, including result classification, reference information, graphical plotting and printing.
- Document management with file import, scanning support, classification, metadata, signing off and export.
- Template-based forms and letters with patient information inserted through placeholders.
- Recording of hospital admissions, diagnostic procedures and therapeutic interventions.
- Staff inboxes for clinical messages, incoming documents and results requiring review.
- Patient billing items, invoice generation and support for multiple practice locations.
- Concurrent access to patient records by multiple authorised users.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: www.gnumed.de/documentation
Support:
Developer: GNUmed community
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
GNUmed is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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