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Free components make GECAMed ideal for use in private medical offices, letting this free software get a foot in the door of a very competitive area of industry-specific software.
Managing data in a medical office with GECAMed
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The GECAMed program owes its existence to an unfortunate event: the insolvency of a major software vendor in Luxembourg.
In the aftermath of this event, many doctors were left up in the air, with no one to maintain the software in their private medical offices. Some of the users turned in their distress to the Centre de Recherche Henri Tudor to collaborate in developing a modern, future-oriented program.
In particular, the stakeholders wanted to solve the support issues caused by the vendor's insolvency with a new approach. Thus, they decided to develop a program under a free license whose support and ongoing development would no longer depend on a single company. The resulting GECAMed program [1] is licensed under the GPLv3. The acronym derives from "Gestion de Cabinets medicaux," which translates to "management of medical practices."
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