I attended a workshop [*] by GNU Solidario on ehealth in Emerging technologies on 15/12/2024. GNU Solidario utilise openSUSE - a free and open-source Linux distribution developed by the openSUSE project.
The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. The openSUSE project is controlled by its community and relies on the contributions of individuals, working as testers, writers, translators, usability experts, artists, ambassadors or developers.
GNU Solidario is a non profit organisation that was founded by Luis Falcon in 2009 to promote the use of free software in the context of public health and education.
The conference heard about the health data requirements of the world's migrants. 43.4 million migrants migrated in 2022. The number of refugees has tripled in the last decade. There are 190 million migrants in the last decade. Refugees to Italy have had health rights since 1996. The conference discussed the future possibility and potential of global personal health registration numbers and of portable health records.
The conference heard about opensource personal health records in French, opensource public health records in Venezuela, opensource inpatient mental health records in Argentin.
Most encouragingly, the conference heard of a successful ehealth record in a hospital in Brazzaville Congo. Despite extensive training requirements and minimal past experience, the installation was successful with improvements in all of the objective. These were patient care, speed of laboratory returns and interdepartmental transfers, centralised patient records, support of disease surveillance, staff productivity and billing for services.
HIFA profile: Richard Fitton is a retired family doctor - GP. Professional interests: Health literacy, patient partnership of trust and implementation of healthcare with professionals, family and public involvement in the prevention of modern lifestyle diseases, patients using access to professional records to overcome confidentiality barriers to care, patients as part of the policing of the use of their patient data. Email address: richardpeterfitton7 AT gmail.com
[*Note from HIFA moderator (NPW): Here is the conference website: https://www.gnuhealth.org/ghcon/2024/ ]
