Open source software to monitor infectious diseases
Genoa – A free and open source software, developed by technical experts and specialized medical, surveillance, prevention and control of diseases invective. If
He will talk about it tomorrow, in Genoa, during a conference that has as its objective the presentation and the proposal to the Liguria Region to use free software.
health Ligurian has not this valuable tool and should dotarsene as required by ministerial directives and to do it may be forced to invest heavily to make it even figures.
The free software could instead be used in a short time as they did the Piedmont Region, from 2009, and the Region of Emilia Romagna , with excellent results.
The Genoa group of Information Technology experts explain the practice of reuse in which the Health Piedmont yields, in use, free software as well as by customs in the philosophy of resource sharing.
> The event will be held tomorrow, Wednesday, October 1 , near the Chamber of Commerce of Genoa (Bergamasco and dining room of the Court) in Via Garibaldi
4. The conference will work to 11 and end at 16 and the involvement of medical experts and administrators of the Region of Piedmont and Emilia Romagna is ready to confirm the effectiveness of the software that the excellent results obtained with this form of collaboration in the development of tools and software that do not affect so impactful on increasingly leaner budgets in healthcare and enable savings that can be redirected to other needs such as improving services.
Gemini Project is a computer system to ‘ vanguard designed and developed to support the health services that deal with monitoring, prevention and control of infectious diseases. And ‘software that manages the computer systems and surveillance provided by the Ministry of Health. And ‘effective, updated, timely and flexible for the investigations and prevention at regional and national level.
In Piedmont, in all ASL from 2009, and, below, in Emilia-Romagna, with
subsequent updates of the platform and operating procedures, Gemini is the backbone for surveillance and control of communicable diseases and agents such as measles, rubella, Legionellosis, Invasive Bacterial Diseases, Creutzfleld-Jacob disease, acute viral hepatitis and other.
From this year were new computerized monitoring functions such as: Sexually Transmitted Infections, the latent TB infection, outbreaks of infectious disease and antibioticoresistenze.
Designed and built by qualified medical personnel and public administrations, Gemini is written only with open source software and is available for all public administrations according to the philosophy of reuse: operational collaboration, knowledge sharing, sharing of economic investments.
principles that are in the philosophy of Coop 19 , Genoa company information technology founded in 2005, also a member of the Technological Pole Tecnobionet.
In the middle of the day, open to doctors, executives and officials of local health and health care of Liguria, are the testimonies and interventions Roberto Raso Service Reference for the Regional Epidemiology Surveillance, Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases and the Piedmont, Bianca Maria Borrini, the Directorate General for Health and Social Policy and Integration Emilia-Romagna).
During the conference Paul Selis and Claudio Aschieri, engineers Coop 19, illustrate the Gemini system in all its details and features.
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