Published on: 21/07/2025 at the European Commission (https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/gnu-health/news/release-gnu-health-his-50)

GNU Health Hospital Information System 5.0 series released

Dear community:

I am very happy to announce the release 5.0 series of the GNU Health Hospital Information System (HIS). This release it's the result of a tremendous amount of work that spanned for almost the last two years!... read more

Dear community

(original post at GNU Savannah: https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10511)

GNU Health 4.2.2 patchset has been released!

Priority: High

Table of Contents

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• About GNU Health Patchsets
• Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center
• Installation notes
• List of other issues related to this patchset

About GNU Health Patchsets

We provide "patchsets" to stable releases. Patchsets allow applying bug
fixes and updates on production systems. Always try to keep your
production system up-to-date with the latest patches.... read more

(Main article at GNU Savannah:
https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10280)

Dear community

GNU Health 4.0.5 patchset has been released !

Priority: High

= Table of Contents =

• About GNU Health Patchsets
• Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center
• Installation notes
• List of other issues related to this patchset

= About GNU Health Patchsets =

We provide "patchsets" to stable releases. Patchsets allow applying bug fixes and updates on production systems. Always try to keep your production system up-to-date with the latest patches.... read more

Dear community

GNU Health 3.6.4 patchset has been released !

Priority: High
Table of Contents

• About GNU Health Patchsets
• Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center
• Summary of this patchset
• Installation notes
• List of other issues related to this patchset

About GNU Health Patchsets

We provide "patchsets" to stable releases. Patchsets allow applying bug fixes and updates on production systems. Always try to keep your
production system up-to-date with the latest patches.... read more

Dear community

GNU Health 3.6.3 patchset has been released !

Priority: High

Table of Contents

• About GNU Health Patchsets
• Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center
• Summary of this patchset
• Installation notes
• List of issues related to this patchset

About GNU Health Patchsets

We provide "patchsets" to stable releases. Patchsets allow applying bug fixes and updates on production systems. Always try to keep your production system up-to-date with the latest patches.... read more

Dear community:

I am very proud to announce the release of the GNU Health 3.6 series !

This version is the result of many developments and integration of ideas from the community.

We are now 11 years old. We should all be very proud because not only we have built the best Libre Health and Hospital Information System, but we have created a strong, committed and friendly international community around it.
What is new in GNU Health 3.6 series... read more

Dear community

We are proud to announce the release of GNU Health 3.4 series !

It's been over a year of hard work, integrating the latest in Social Medicine and Bioinformatics into GNU Health.

This versions incorporates many cool features, some of them are :

• The GNU Health Federation model
• Thalamus message server
• New Health Information System (on MongoDB)
• Person Master Index
• MongoDB support (on the HIS)
• Updated UniprotKB database with over 30K protein natural variants
• Contextualized information on genetics and social determinants
• Genetic and family history and environmental factors integrated to the Page of Life and Federation
• The GNU Health Book of Life
• Tryton 4.6 integration on the HMIS node
• All GNU Health packages are natively in Python 3
• Enhanced support for Calendar and WebDAV system
• GNU LIMS improvements in views
• Pypi packages with our own name ("gnuhealth-<package>")</package>
• Native client has a command line interface
• Over 30 new commands for the main daily tasks
• Enhanced GNU Health camera plugin, including zoom
• Activity Log window on the client
• SYSINFO command to retrieve the information about client and server
• Customize the banner on the client
• Reports are generated now in PDF format... read more

Dear community

GNU Health 3.2.9 patchsets has been released !

Priority: High

(Original post at GNU Savannah : https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9021 )

Table of Contents

• About GNU Health Patchsets
• Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center
• Summary of this patchset
• Installation notes
• List of issues related to this patchset

About GNU Health Patchsets

We provide "patchsets" to stable releases. Patchsets allow applying bug fixes and updates on production systems. Always try to keep your production system up-to-date with the latest patches.... read more

Dear community

GNU Health 3.2.4 patchset has been released !

Priority: High
Table of Contents

About GNU Health Patchsets
Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center
Installation notes
List of issues related to this patchset

About GNU Health Patchsets

We provide "patchsets" to stable releases. Patchsets allow applying bug fixes and updates on production systems. Always try to keep your production system up-to-date with the latest patches.... read more

Dear community

GNU Health 3.2.3 patchset has been released !

Priority: High

Table of Contents

• About GNU Health Patchsets
• Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center
• Installation notes
• List of issues related to this patchset

About GNU Health Patchsets

We provide "patchsets" to stable releases. Patchsets allow applying bug fixes and updates on production systems. Always try to keep your production system up-to-date with the latest patches.... read more

Dear community

GNUHealthCon 2017 (www.gnuhealthcon.org) is coming up this November in Las Palmas ! We are very excited, and working hard on the preparations so we can make it a success again.

On Saturday night (Nov 25th), we will celebrate the GNU Health Social Medicine Awards 2017 ceremony. Besides having a great time with our colleagues from around the world, we will announce the winners of the Social Medicine Awards. The awards are a way to recognize the work of individuals and organizations that fight for social justice and
freedom in this world, and a source of inspiration for all of us.... read more

Dear community

GNU Health 3.2.2 patchset has been released !

Priority: Medium

Table of Contents

• About GNU Health Patchsets
• Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center
• Installation notes
• List of issues related to this patchset

About GNU Health Patchsets

We provide "patchsets" to stable releases. Patchsets allow applying bug fixes and updates on production systems. Always try to keep your production system up-to-date with the latest patches.... read more

Dear community

GNU Health 3.2.1 patchset has been released !

Priority: High

The original post can be found at GNU Savannah
https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8911

Table of Contents

• About GNU Health Patchsets
• Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center
• Installation notes
• List of issues related to this patchset

About GNU Health Patchsets

We provide "patchsets" to stable releases. Patchsets allow applying bug fixes and updates on production systems. Always try to keep your production system up-to-date with the latest patches.... read more

Dear community

I am proud to announce the release of GNU Health 3.2 series !

It's been over a year of hard work, integrating the latest in
technology and Social Medicine into GNU Health.

This versions incorporates many cool features, some of them are :

• Tryton 4.2 integration
• All GNU Health packages are now written in Python 3
• Enhanced support for Calendar and WebDAV system
• Updated Crypto packages
• Link lab orders with health services
• Better language and localization, that optimizes translation for
  regional languages
• Add code39 to lab tests
• Include the Domicilary Unit address in the main person information
• Improved gnuhealth-setup and gnuhealth-control programs
• Patient, Medicament and Services can now be activated / deactivated... read more

Dear all

We are proud to announce the release of GNU Health 1.6.3, the Free Health and Hospital Information System. This version brings major improvements in the hospital information system, both from the administrative and patient management. Here is a quick summary of the main changes :

** New Features **

- Patient Nutrition management. Complex combinations that take into account therapeutics, pre-existing conditions, surgeries, lifestyles, vegetarianism and other belief-based diets.
- Inpatient medication medication and history log
- New nursing module
- Nursing roundings ( evaluations, procedures, medications ... )
- New user profiles (doctors, nurses, clerks, ...)
- New appointment reports
- Improved standard security profiles
- The translation project is now entirely done from Transifex, so the health center will install only the languages they need
- Revised and improved look and feel, from views to icons
- Many models datafiles ( medicaments, WHO essential meds, .. ) can be now modified from the client.
- Improve installation scripts and Archlinux support
- Improve search patient methods
- Bugfixes... read more

The Free Software Foundation ceremony took place at the University of Massachusetts, Boston (UMass) on Sunday March 25th, during the LibrePlanet 2012 conference. On the ceremony, there were two awards :

* Award for the Advancement of Free Software:Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of the Ruby Programming Language. Congratulations Matz !

* Award for the Project of Social Benefit : GNU Health

As stated by the FSF, the Award for Projects of Social Benefit is presented to the project or team responsible for applying free software, or the ideas of the free software movement, in a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society in other aspects of life. This award stresses the use of free software in the service of humanity.... read more

(The original post and pictures can be found here : http://meanmicio.blogspot.com/2011/07/gnu-health-academia-at-united-nations.html )

I finally found some time to summarize GNU Health Academia at the United Nations University, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during the last week of June. The workshop was a success and I had a great time in KL !

The workshop was held at the International Institute of Global Health (IIGH), where I had the opportunity to train the United Nations team in GNU Health concepts, both from the functional and technical point of view. ... read more

I'm happy to announce that today we have released the beta version of Medical.

Medical is a free health and Hospital Information System. Our goal is to have a system that will be able to improve the lives of people, specially of the underprivileged. We focus on family and preventive medicine, using the latest industry standards.

Medical has been awarded Sourceforge PoTM, and has been nominated for project of the year.... read more

In this release we have optimized the navigation, allergy and basic reports. We have also included Panagiotis Kontaxis localization for Greece

For a detailed list of modifications, please check http://medical.sourceforge.net/Changelog

Medical is a free Health and Hospital Information System, with the goal to provide a universal high quality e-Health environment, specially for countries and provinces with low resources.... read more

Hi all !

I'm happy to announce the release of the development version 0.0.47

This version includes the basic inpatient (hospitalization) and outpatient functionality.

We also have created the main objects that make up the hospital infrastructure (buildings, units, floors, wards, beds ... ).

Medical is a free Health and Hospital Information System, with the goal to provide a universal high quality e-Health environment, specially for countries and provinces with low resources.... read more

For the spanish speakers friends, we have the CIE-10 (spanish version of ICD-10) available since version 0.0.41 of Medical !

So, at this time, users can choose not only the login language (english, french, german, spanish, indonesian .. ) but also the whole WHO / OMS disease list and categories.

Luis Falcon

Hi there !
In order to centralize the project tasks, we have decided to use Trac for bugtracking, so the standard tracker won't be used for now.

Thanks
Luis

Hello there

Medical version 0.0.34 has just been released.
The most important feature of this version is the addition of ICD-10-PCS.
The International Classification of Diseases tenth revision Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) will complement the already implemented ICD-10 coding for pathologies. This duple provides a very efficient way of coding for doctors and administrative personnel, making the data interchange between organizations very easy and with a common language, around the world.... read more

I'm very pleased to announce that Medical, the open source Health Information System, is finalist for Sourceforge 2009 Community Awards.

With over 47,000 nominations, the community has chosen 85 finalists in 12 categories. Medical is among the best 10 projects this year for government.

This is very exciting and rewarding. To be among the 10 best projects (sharing the space with projects like Open Office) shows the recognition from the community to humanitarian projects like Medical, and positions open source in health sector, an area limited to proprietary vendors until now.... read more