Managing data in a medical office with GECAMed

Conclusions

The Luxembourg-based developers have produced a very useful piece of free software in GECAMed. Thanks to its underlying open structure, it positively invites users to adapt it to their own needs.

In this example of a surgical private practice, the software has been running stably for two years. On a newly installed server, the complete system can be restored in about an hour from backed up files. In particular, the ability to integrate patient images, including x-ray images, makes GECAMed ideal for many disciplines.

Acknowledgments

The author thanks Guido Bosch and his team at Santec and his own team led by Jens Ferring for their patience, as well as Dirk Störk from C-K-N.biz, who took a leap of faith and installed a Linux server.

Infos

GECAMed: http://www.santec.lu/project/gecamed/latest
Oracle Java on Ubuntu: http://www.wikihow.com/Enable-Oracle-Java-in-Your-Web-Browsers-on-Ubuntu-Linux
JasperReports: http://www.jaspersoft.com/editions
GNUmed: http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed
CompuGroup Medical: http://www.cgm.com/corp/index.en.jsp

The Author

Martin Schwarz is a specialist in surgery, including plastic surgery and hand surgery. In 1992, he and six colleagues founded a surgical outpatient clinic. As the person in charge of IT, he was never quite satisfied with the available medical records software, despite repeatedly switching vendors; thus, he was continually on the lookout for a new approach.

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