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What projects does the opensource world lack (programming.dev)
submitted 3 days ago by 0101100101@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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Is there some project that the opensource world is missing that you think it needs?

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 25 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Most anything related to healthcare:

  • System for medics and nurses to input all the data of a patient, which can be accessed by said patient if need be
  • System for keeping track of vaccines applied and pinging people who need to take more shots (second dose, reinforcement dose, etc)
  • drivers and programs to interact with medical equipment
[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 14 points 2 days ago

there’s actually a bunch of these, but healthcare tends to fall prey to “too much money, too many consultants, fancy brochures”

[–] 0101100101@programming.dev 7 points 2 days ago

Healthcare normally have tight varying legal requirements that software must adhere to, so I would say there couldn't be a single solution for multiple countries.

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gonna take a look at that one. Data migration from a 10+ years program would definitely be the second biggest pain, number one would be training staff to use it, but i do think it'd be worth it

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Main problem with it is lack of certification, which prevents it's use ironically in Germany, the country of origin. I would have loved to use it. If you live in a less–regulated health system, I wish you success!

Data migration will be a huge problem – medical management system companies tend to lock their customers into their system by preventing data migration.

I just didn't bother with migration. I used an autohotkey script to print all patient charts of the old system into pdf files – unconvenient but failsave – and built the new data base from scratch.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

In my case, it'd be an actual epic job, since I work for govt and we use an old version of TrakCare, which has been the source of a number of headaches for at least 7 years now

I'm curious, which certifications does it lack such that Germany can't use GNUMed?

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 2 points 9 hours ago

TrakCare – wow, intersystem offers a bunch of data management software in > 20 countries.

At first glance, TrakCare seems to be targeted at hospitals. GNUmed is targeted at small practices.

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 2 points 9 hours ago

Billing the public health insurance. It's perfectly usable for private practice, but there are only very few private only practices in Germany.