The Ubuntu-Med project is a Kubuntu

Kubuntu

Kubuntu is an official derivative of the Ubuntu operating system using the KDE Plasma Desktop instead of the Unity graphical environment. It is part of the Ubuntu project and uses the same underlying system. It is possible to install both the KDE Plasma Desktop as well as the Unity desktop on...

-based operating system customization created to provide a co-ordinated operating system

Operating system

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 and collection of available free software

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...

 packages that are suited to the requirements of medical practice

Medical practice

A medical practice or practice of medicine is the practice of medicine, as performed by a medical practitioner—a physician...

s and research.

Packages

Ubuntu-Med includes packages in the categories:

• Electronic health record (electronic medical record) server / client systems:
• OpenVistA
  VistA
  The Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture is an enterprise-wide information system built around an Electronic Health Record , used throughout the United States Department of Veterans Affairs medical system, known as the Veterans Health Administration .It's a collection...
  
   EHR

• Medical practice and patient management
• Medical imaging
• Documentation and research

• Other software:
• Website software (Drupal
  Drupal
  Drupal is a free and open-source content management system and content management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for at least 1.5% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and...
  
  )
• Wiki software (MediaWiki
  MediaWiki
  MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is used to run all of its projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites...
  
  )
• Group calendaring server (DAViCal
  DAViCal
  DAViCal is a server for calendar sharing. It is an implementation of the CalDAV protocol which is designed for storing calendaring resources on a remote shared server...
  
  )
• Teleconferencing server (BigBlueButton
  BigBlueButton
  BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system developed primarily for distance education.- Features :As of version 0.71a, BigBlueButton supports multiple audio and video sharing, presentations with extended whiteboard capabilities - such as a pointer, zooming and drawing - public and...
  
  )
• Patient education / online teaching server (Moodle
  Moodle
  Moodle is a free source e-learning software platform, also known as a Course Management System, Learning Management System, or Virtual Learning Environment...
  
  )

All software and packages are open-source, with a goal of GPL

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

-licensure.

This system has been in use by some medical practitioners.

Availability

Ubuntu-Med is available as a self-installing Live CD image

ISO image

An ISO image is an archive file of an optical disc, composed of the data contents of every written sector of an optical disc, including the optical disc file system...

 (which is a Kubuntu remaster

Remaster

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) or as a Filesystem Archive. Both are available from the project website at Sourceforge.

External links

• Ubuntu-Med – Homepage of the Project

Related projects

• Debian-Med
  Debian-Med
  The Debian Med project is a Debian Pure Blend created to provide a co-ordinated operating system and collection of available free software packages that are well-suited for the requirements for medical practices and research.- Packages :...
  
  - a collection of packages intended for use in medical situations for Debian-based operating systems
• Project EU Spirit – European portal for open-source based software in medicine
• Open Med – Support for free medical software (German)

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