MedinTux is a free

Free software

Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...

 healthcare software for managing consultations, written for the French environment.

Features

Originally written for the French emergency services, its modular conception allow it to be used in almost any area of medical or paramedical specialization.

The software works in a networked and multi-users environment. The following features are currently available:

• consultations
• meetings
• prescriptions
  Medical prescription
  A prescription is a health-care program implemented by a physician or other medical practitioner in the form of instructions that govern the plan of care for an individual patient. Prescriptions may include orders to be performed by a patient, caretaker, nurse, pharmacist or other therapist....
  
  
• monitoring of static or dynamic variables
• ICD-10
  ICD-10
  The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision is a medical classification list for the coding of diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases, as maintained by the...
  
  , CCAM
  Classification Commune des Actes Médicaux
  Classification Commune des Actes Médicaux is a French medical classification for clinical procedures. Starting in 2005, the CCAM serves as the reimbursement classification for clinicians...
  
  , CCMU and GEMSA codings
• statistics
• Vidal Data Semp
• retrieval of analysis via FTP
• real time visualisation of biometric curves
• management of multimedia documents (images...)
• OCR
  OCR
  OCR may refer to:* Optical character recognition, conversion of images of text into characters** The OCR-A font, designed to simplify character recognition** The similar OCR-B font* Transvaginal oocyte retrieval, a technique used in in vitro fertilization...
  
  
• accounting
• easy input with hierarchy menus, which can be parametrised

Software architecture

The programm is written in C++

C++

C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...

, using the Qt3 library and Mysql

MySQL

MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

 database for storage. A web enabled MedWebTux also exist, which allow access from a browser

Web browser

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. It's been ported to various OS:

• Linux
  Linux
  Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
  
   (tested on Mandriva
  Mandriva
  Mandriva S.A. is a publicly traded Linux and open source software company with its headquarters in Paris, France and development center in Curitiba, Brazil. Mandriva, S.A...
  
  , Ubuntu
  Ubuntu (operating system)
  Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu...
  
  , SuSE, Xandros
  Xandros
  Xandros is the name of both a line of operating systems and Xandros Corporation, the company which creates them. Xandros Desktop was a Linux distribution. The name Xandros is derived from the X Window System and the Greek island of Andros....
  
   eeePC)
• Microsoft Windows
  Microsoft Windows
  Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
  
  
• Mac OS X
  Mac OS X
  Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
  
  

Awards

• Winner of the 2005 Trophées du libre
  Les Trophées du Libre
  Les Trophées du Libre contest is a free software contest whose goal is to promote innovative software projects and give these projects recognition and media coverage - recently also to motivate students and academic institutions with special prizes. The competition is international and it is...
  
  , in the enterprise management category.
• Nominated at the 2007 Lutèce d'Or

External links

Official site Medintux on the ADULLACT GForge MedinTux-Evolution