May 4, 2007
Latest version of Care2x just released!

The version 2.2.5 of Care2x has been released by Claudio Torbinio from Italy. The latest version includes several improvements and bug fixes. You can download the latest release package from the project's SF.net download site.

Claudio Torbinio is the new release manager and this is his first version release.

February 18, 2007
New Release Manager for Care2x

Claudio Torbinio from Italy is the newly appointed release manager for Care2x. His term starts on February 2007 and will end on August 2007 (tentatively) basing on the guidelines for release manager. Developers must coordinate with Claudio Torbinio regarding coming releases. Please contact him on the project's mailing list.

Kaloyan Raev, the former release manager, handed over the responsibilities and duties after the expiration of his second term. Kaloyan will still be available for help and support.

August 2, 2006
Care2x installed in Brazil

An installation of Care2x was done at the Maternidade Cândida Vargas, João Pessoa in Brazil As reported by Edmundo Barbosa: this hospital has 149 beds. On the average, 700 children are born each year at this hospital.

You can contact Edmundo Barbosa here.

Jan. 22, 2006
Care2x now running in Costa Rica

The UNIBE, a university hospital in Costa Rica, is now running Care2x as its main hospital information system. Florencio Marchelli, the IT manager of the university reported: "After 2 years of fighting against the old proprietary HIS, we won and Care2X is the new HIS for this place!! It´s very important for us, because we have the 80% of our system with Care2X and we develop a complimentary sub-system using Visual Basic for the administrative task like Billing, Acount Payable and Inventory. We want to thank you for your effort and we will talk with the Local TV stations to let the costarican know about our (You and We) goal."

You can contact Florencio Marchelli here.

Jan. 7, 2006
Arabic plugins and update

Tarek Alwerfally from Libya submitted an update pack of the arabic Care2x. He also translated two plugins originally developed by Dr. Bhattacharya into arabic version.

Oct. 8, 2005
New release manager appointed for Care2x

Kaloyan Raev from Bulgaria is the current appointed release manager for Care2x. His term starts on October 2005 and will end on April 2006 (tentatively) basing on the guidelines for release manager. Kaloyan developed the bulgarian ICD10 data for Care2x and is currently very active fixing the project's cvs system.

Developers must coordinate with him regarding coming releases. Please contact Kaloyan via the project's mailing list.

Sept 30, 2005
Bulgarian ICD10 data for Care2x

The bulgarian ICD10 data for Care2x was developed and contributed by Kaloyan Raeb. The data are packaged in the "sql-friendly" csv format. You can download the available files from the project's download site. For help regarding installation of the data you can contact Kaloyan via the project's mailing list.

Image of St. George Rotunda from 3th to 4th century in Sofia, Bulgaria

Sept 7, 2005
Romanian Care2x

The romanian Care2x translation was done by Dr. Petre Diculescu and was made available by Laurentiu Drob. To see the online demo go to www.care2x.org/foundry/ and select "Romana" from the language selector. You can download the available files from the project's sf.net files.

August 22, 2005
Swahili for Care2x

This important language translation was contributed by Charles Palapala from Tanzania. To see the online demo go to www.care2x.org/foundry/ and select "Swahili" from the language selector. Currently, the translation is partial but you can download the available files from the project's sf.net files.

July 19, 2005
Hungarian (Magyar) Language for Care2x

This hungarian language package was contributed by Dr. Fazekas Levente and István Német of Necotech Corp. in Hungary. To see the online demo go to www.care2x.org/foundry/ and select "Magyar" from the language selector. You can download the files and buttons from the project's sf.net files.

June 12, 2005
Argentinian - Spanish Language for Care2x

Another important language translation

The argentinian - spanish language pack of Care2x was contributed by Dr. Jorge Rodriguez from Argentina. You can see the online demo at www.care2x.org/foundry/ . Just select the "Espanol-Argentina" language version.

June 2, 2005
Care2x in Thai language

Another important language translation

A Thai language version of Care2x is now being developed by Atthakorn Chanthong of Thailand. You can see the online demo here. Just select the Thai language from the main menu frame.

29 November, 2004
Care2x in Reggio Emilia, Italy

Care2x presented at the Linux Day

Another groundbreaking event for Care2x in Italy was a presentation at the local university of Reggio Emilia during their Linux Day celebrations last November 27, 2004. The project was presented by Gabriele Cicala following an introduction by Giuseppe Scarpi. More news details and reports will follow. The presentation file (italian language) is available for download from here. Some pictures taken from the event can be seen here.

For more information please contact Gabriele Cicala (gabcicala at tiscali.it) or Giuseppe Scarpi (kalbun at inwind.it).

26 November, 2004
News update from Policlinico Umberto in Italy

Care2x passed the experimental phase

The italian hospital Policlinico Umberto I di Roma has completed the experimental phase for Care2x and is now using it in its "Day Clinic", the italian term for outpatient department. The installation was done by the MFH company. Marco Fiorletta, the director of the company, also reported that they are expecting the laboratory modules to be available for the said hospital next week.

For verifications , pls. contact:
Marco Fiorletta
Via di Campo Romano 30, 00173, Roma
+39-067230668 (r.a.)
<fiorletta@mfh.it>

12 November, 2004
Latino American Care2x

Last September 24, Care2x was presented to the 2004 Symposium of Health Informatics in Cordoba, Argentina. This symposium is one of the most important events in the field of health informatics in this country.

Most interesting to note is the way Care2x was presented to the conference participants. The presentation was done via a videoconference system by Dr. Walter Nunez at the University Catolica of Lima, Peru transmitting to the University of Cordoba, Argentina. The virtual presentation including a two-way discussion period lasted for about one hour.  A short report with images from the videoconference can be seen here: http://www.sis.org.ar/sis2004/videoconferencia/index.html

For more information please visit these websites: http://www.salux.org and http://www.care2x.org.ar which are currently developing an adapted version of Care2x dubbed as Care2x-L  (L for Latino).

16 October, 2004
Brazilian government finances development of brazilian Care2x

Around 60 thousand US dollars awarded

This obvious milestone for open source Care2x acceptance in Brazil was made by a federal supporting agency called FINEP of the brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT). The financial support was awarded to the Institute for Scientific and Technological Research (IPCT) of a large southern brazilian university PUCRS in partnership with the Alfamais.com group. The university research department is being directed by Professor Dario Azevedo while the Alfamais group is composed of former university professors and e-learning consultants.

Prof. Azevedo was chosen by the partnership to lead the group. The development works will concentrate on adapting the Care2x software to real brazilian needs and the financial aid will be used mainly to pay developers and programmers.

For verifications contact the project's public representative:
Mr. Daniel Fink
Possidonio da Cunha 320
Porto Allegre - RS - Brasil
Tel:
55-51-3268 4840
55-61-8401 7187
<dfink at alfamais.com>

9 October, 2004
Italian hospital uses Care2x

Another milestone in Italy

The italian hospital Policlinico Umberto I di Roma Dipartimento Malattie infettive (department of infectious diseases) has started to use Care2x in an initial experimental phase. The installation was done by the MFH company under the direction of Marco Fiorletta.

For verifications , pls. contact:
Marco Fiorletta
Via di Campo Romano 30, 00173, Roma
+39-067230668 (r.a.)
<fiorletta@mfh.it>

18 September, 2004
Care2x for man's best friends

They bark and say "meow" for open source.

Clinique Vétérinaire Des Alizés, a veterinary clinic in France is using Care2x, an open source hospital information system, to manage the data of its "patients". These patients do not say "hello" but bark, say "meow", or otherwise emit animal sounds. Yes, open source software is also being used for animal patients. Dr. Jean-Philippe LIOT, the head of the clinic has implemented Care2x in the clinic's intranet and has also developed several customized functions and plugin modules. These additions have been incorporated in the current software releases since then. Currently, Dr. LIOT is developing a live video module for round-the-clock monitoring of his patients in their caged "wards".

For verifications and more info about the plugins, pls. contact:
Dr. Jean-Philippe LIOT
Clinique Vétérinaire Des Alizés
39 Avenue René Coty
85180 Chateau d'Olone
flip-zali(at)tiscali.fr

17 August, 2004
Italian Olympic Committee uses Care2x

CONI, as the committee is popularly known in Italy, has approved its sports medicine department locally called L'Instituto Nazionale di Medicina dello Sport (INMS) to use a custom version of Care2x.

According to Umberto Rampa, the department's IT director responsible for the project, it took the INMS around 17 months to make the important customizations up to using the modules in real productive environment. The institute has more "outpatient" character. Their "patient", mostly athletes, isn't sick but rather a kind of superman.

The INMS started the customization of Care2x in Rome on March 2003 by hiring two professional software engineers. They modified and/or enhanced many modules to fit their needs in billing, laboratory, demographics, medical reports, as well as migrating data from a legacy system. The resulting product was first tried for productive operation on April 2004. On the following month, they activated the "general medicine" and "appointment" modules. On June 2004, the cardiology module was activated.

Mr. Rampa said that they are now planning to integrate modules for intruments management and digital imagery.

For verifications, pls. contact:
Mr. UMBERTO RAMPA
<umberto.rampa(at)coni.it>
Tel: 39-6-36851 (ask for Mr. Umberto Rampa)
Mail address:
Largo Lauro De Bosis, 15
00194 Roma

03 August, 2004
Care2x in 10 malaysian hospitals

Malaysian government awards contract

On February 2004, the malaysian ministry of health (Pejabat Timbalan Menteri Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia) awarded a contract to the ProRata Traders/IDBE Systems consortium of companies to implement Care2x in 10 malaysian hospitals.

The implementor company is IDBE systems headed by Mr. Mustapa Osman. According to Mr. Osman, the implementation of a highly costumized version of Care2x will be done in a "3-hospitals per year" phase. This specialized version will be integrated with enterprise grade applications.

For verifications contact - mustapa.osman(at)idbesystem.com.

26 June, 2004
Care2x in Regione Lazio, Italy

Italian marketing campaign

The MFH Italy company successfully made a marketing presentation of Care2x in Regione Lazio, Italy. This has convinced the local government to setup a commitee to evaluate the implementation of Care2x in their hospitals.

The MFH company is a manufacturer of server hardware and has been supporting the Care2x project with hardware infrastructure including a PostgreSQL server for online demonstration.

25 June, 2004
Care2x at ITeG in Frankfurt

First commercial industrial exhibition

The new industrial exhibition called ITeG was held successfully in Frankfurt, Germany. The healthcare Consulting gmbh, a professional consulting firm specializing on healthcare has presented its diverse consulting services together with its implementations. It has focussed on services for and around Care2x.

more info (in german) ...

April 30, 2004
myCare2x + Care2x in Oberbayern, Germany

First commercial marketing campaign for Care2x in Germany.

A total of 20 representatives of community clinics from the state of Bayern have attended a conference held at the Seeon Monastery in Oberbayern, Germany. Mr. Joachim Mollin of the healthcare Consulting company presented to the public his support concept for the open-source solution which he named myCare2x. myCare2x is also a consortium of several commercial companies which committed to delivering services for healthcare based on open-source products.

A copy of his presentation in german language can be viewed online here:

March 30, 2004
Care2x at GMDS in Mannheim, Germany

Latest Care2x presentation.

The latest presentation of Care2x was done at the GMDS (German Society of Medical Informatics) conference in the city of Mannheim in Germany last March 26, 2004. It was presented by Mr. Wilfried Gödert (physician) using the "Project Status" ppt presentation.

A copy of the presentation is here. Info of the GMDS conference in german language is here. Info of the city of Mannheim in german language is here.

March 15, 2004
Care2x Workshop at the University of Applied Sciences in Ulm, Germany

2-days marathon workshop

The workshop was initiated by Prof. Dr. Kesztyüs, the vice dean of the informatics department. It was attended by informatics students, professional software developers, business consultants and enterpreneurs. The main topics were the architecture and programming of the Care2x application. It was concluded with a hands-on development of a test module. The workshop was conducted by Elpidio Latorilla.

Info of the Informatics department in german language is here.

March 6, 2004
Care2x at LinuxTag in Chemnitz, Germany

A successful presentation.

Andreas Tille did a nice presentation of Care2x at the LinuxTag Exhibition/Conference in the city of Chemnitz in Germany last March 6, 2004. He concluded it with a live demonstration of Care2x-Knoppix package.

His presentation in german language here. Info of the LinuxTag in german language here. Info of the city of Chemnitz in english language here.

February 29, 2004
Report on the meeting

1st Care2x non-virtual meeting

This is the final report on the Care2x meeting in Flensburg, Germany. The report was done in chronological style. There are links to the presentations and files that were used in the meeting to give you the chance to review what were shown in that day. There are also several pictures of that meeting. To see the report please click here.

February 11, 2004
1st Care2x non-virtual meeting

Tentative list of speakers for the meeting.

The 1st non-virtual meeting of Care2x will be held at Flensburg, Germany on February 11, 2004. There will be a "conference-style" program of speakers for different topics that are relevant to the project. You can see the tentative list of speakers here: http://www.care2x.de/tentativelist.html

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