Drupal as a Health Care CMS

Posted by srrpenna on January 3, 2007 at 12:46pm

First Let me introduce my self. My name is Dr Sreeram Penna, I am trainee surgeon in Liverpool Surgical Rotation, United Kingdom. My idea to start a venture for custom drupal distribution for Health came as I was reading this Dries post. Health care industry is complex and very diverse. Its IT needs are broad. In my opinion the scope of a health care CMS are

•From Blogs by doctors and other health care professionals.(who require simpler installation, help with customising templates to individual needs)(I know that other blogging software is there to meet that demands but many health bloggers are yet to migrate from blogger.com and if we show commitment as health care CMS I am sure many will migrate here)

•Promotional websites for individual clinicians.

•Community websites for doctors, nurses, and other health professionals.

•Community website for General Practitioners or Family physicians which involve information gathering, dissemination and patient discussions via a secure website. I note such websites need to be designed with higher security as confidentiality is utmost important. ( An example of this kind of venture is patient accessing their own clinical records through a secure website maintained by their General Practitioner or a Family physician).

•Intranets for GP surgeries, Departments, Hospitals, Medical research institutes.

•Websites and Extranets for GP surgeries, Departments, Hospitals, Medical research institutes.

•Websites for various professional bodies in medicine. (These are numerous and countless. And most of them are charity organisations.)

•Educational websites relating to medical field like training websites, medical journals, online Continuing Professional Development courses. (Example of such online training groups is maintained by me for surgical trainees, EYST group )

•Patient Info websites, Self help groups websites

The needs of a health care driven websites are slightly different from other technology related ventures. The installations need to be simple and maintenance should not be tiring. Drupal Health CMS need to be customised so that it reflects the health industry as such. This may require custom modules on top of basic drupal modules.

All comments and corrections are welcome

Sreeram Penna

Comments

Kosansh

Posted by kosansh on January 5, 2007 at 10:22pm

BPO Canada is helping us in developing a Medical Tourism Portal - www.kosansh.com. I am a General Practitioner in India and am excited about Drupal.

We are looking to start this pilot with integration of 3 hospitals of Gujarat state.

--
Dr Priyavadan Shah
http://www.kosansh.com
- In partnership with BPO Canada ( http://www.bpocanada.com )

Looking for a Chief Nursing Officer

Posted by Katie-RN on September 30, 2010 at 10:07am

Good luck. All you need is a clean facility with a great staff. Check out this article on Chief Nursing Officer: Providing a Voice for Nurses. Hope all works out!

I also want to bid you good

Posted by Heidi Lavern on November 28, 2010 at 8:45am

I also want to bid you good luck in your work. Although there are many websites that preoccupy themselves with the health issue, there aren't so many that succeed in not being tiresome. I love your design and hopefully you will succeed in what you have planned for it.
Heidi Lavern - Drug Rehab Washington administrator

Thanks

Posted by roshan_shah on December 17, 2010 at 2:18am

Heidi,

We at Gloscon are proud of Kosansh as a product. It has become cash flow positive, profitable and is now a separate company in itself.

Roshan
Custom Drupal Development

Medical Information Systems

Posted by lopolencastrede... on January 9, 2007 at 8:12pm

Hi,

Care3G is a project based and made by the same team of Care2x and it started exactly due to the reasons that Dries pointed out.

Care3G is not a fork of Care2x but it aims to port all medical/hospital stuff to Drupal modules and leave the Content Management stuff to Drupal.

The great advantage we envisage on this approach is that, since everything is a module, you could install from a simple Practice Management, an Health Center, a MASH style hospital or even a General Hospital.

Some sort of integration with Sahana is in our goals using an enhanced HXP server.

We are still in the starting phase and waiting for Drupal 5.0 to be out since it looks like many changes will happen on how Drupal works and we don't want to rewrite too much code in this early phases.

Hope to hear your ideas on what is cooking. Can contact us to care3g@gmail.com

great stuff

Posted by srrpenna on January 13, 2007 at 1:21am

your work is great and impressive.

Thanks!

Posted by lopolencastrede... on January 17, 2007 at 8:58pm

Oh! Thanks but we are in the very starting stages.
Defining stuff and mostly seing this Drupal Distributions Profile as a veery interesting evolution for Care3G.

We plan to have a new presentation ready soon to discuss and I hope we could include DDP and other ideias too.

Care2x goes really good and has a big community surrounding it so I, personally, am doing less work on it than I did before.

Sahana has also its own huge community so my cooperation for the time being is more on advising some classes and stuff related with security and authentication management than real coding.

Drupal has great potential

Posted by chancedwayne on November 25, 2010 at 5:20pm

Drupal has great potential and can be used widely in health care. It can make the connection between the patients and the doctors that is lost otherwise the moment the patient steps out the door. Also, a lot of research and information could be easier to access if heath care institutions had blogs where to post them.
Chance Dwayne - Vista bay intern

Medical records

Posted by alldirt@drupal.... on February 10, 2007 at 12:07am

I am a sportsphysician from the Netherlands. There are a least three reasons why I am interested in this group.

First, I am using a DOS based database for my medical records. It needs to be replaced. A replacement would need to integrate in a webbased or windows environment with datacollection and easy administration. Maybe Drupal can fit the need by extending the profile fields like medical history, medication, general practitionar, etcetera and by creating different custom node types: consultation, basic-screening, topsport-screening, operation-report, ...
Second, I participate in a national medical commission. We need a way to keep track of athletes in different teams in the Netherlands, but also if they are in foreign countries. Injuryzone.com is probably a good option for this, but way to expensive. OpenEMR doesn't seem appropriate, judging by the demo on oemr.org.
Third, I think individual healthcare workers should promote themselves on individual webpages and I would like to facilitate this.

Nice to see some others interested. I would probably be willing to chip-in if there is a good proposal.

Community site for Doctors with room to grow

Posted by dfunkd-gdo on February 11, 2007 at 3:06am

I'm starting to develop a community site for Doctors to share ideas/calendars/sub-groups.
Many of the things you are all discussing.
I've recently started with Drupal. and trying to create within drupals functionality.
However, instead of re-inventing the wheel, i'm wondering which if any of these projects would all ready suit our needs.
Also with room to grow in whichever direction the community wished to go.
It would be good if it was quite well established, with most of the bugs ironed out.
I'm playing with drupal 4.7 and 5 now.
happy to help with any projects/join in.
I'm a doctor, new to drupal in the last 9 monthsl.
learning some php at the moment.
any thoughts would be appreciated...

Can you change the title of

Posted by KarenS on April 18, 2007 at 2:48pm

Can you change the title of this topic to 'Introductions'? It looks like that is where it is going, and it would be nice for new members to see it. Can you make it sticky to keep it at the top of the list? Does that work on gdo?

Introduction: RMN, RGN, CPN, PG(Dip) COPE, BCS SIG, Hodges model

Posted by h2cm-gdo on July 15, 2009 at 9:01pm

Hi everyone

I am also based in NW England working in Community Mental Health in Ormskirk. I'm a member of the BCS Nursing Specialist Group, RCN IN group and been interested in IT in health since 1980. I wrote computer aided learning programs on the BBC micro - yes I'm getting on a bit... ;-)

I've done work in data standards, and on the NHS CRS local implementation. Since 1998 I've had a website for a health and social care model called Hodges model. Originally created in the UK by Brian E Hodges -

Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model [h2cm]

http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/

can help map health, social care and other issues, problems AND solutions. The model takes a situated and multi-contextual view across four knowledge domains:

Interpersonal;
Sociological;
Empirical;
Political.

Our links pages cover each care (knowledge) domain e.g. Interpersonal:

http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/links.htm

This includes 'mental health', 'therapies', 'ideas', 'e-learning', 'human computer interaction', 'education' and 'accessibility', ...

I'm learning Drupal (and Ruby) to create a new website.

I've also a blog 'Welcome to the QUAD'

http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/

I'll be in Paris for Drupalcon 2009 - hope to see you there and there is a NW Drupal group that meets in Manchester.

Best regards,

Peter Jones
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/
Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk
h2cm: help2Cmore - help-2-listen - help-2-care
http://twitter.com/h2cm

http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/
Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk
h2cm: help2Cmore - help-2-listen - help-2-care
http://twitter.com/h2cm

Hi. Please has anyone done

Posted by zeezhao on August 28, 2009 at 1:44pm

Hi. Please has anyone done any drupal-based EMR work e.g. similar to openemr?

have you found similar to

Posted by svnindia on September 24, 2012 at 3:35pm

have you found similar to openemr using drupal ?

Yes

Posted by bhavinpatel1984 on September 25, 2012 at 6:24am

I have developed similer functionality site for health care in drupal.

any contributed modules used

Posted by svnindia on September 25, 2012 at 6:10pm

any contributed modules used ?
drupal 6/ drupal 7 ?

openemr to drupal

Posted by fndtn357 on September 25, 2012 at 7:25pm

Do you want to collaborate on this at all? I am in the beginning process right now.

Me too

Posted by hakeem on September 26, 2012 at 6:41am

I am interested too!

yes, which module you use?

Posted by svnindia on September 26, 2012 at 3:48pm

yes, which module you use? medbase?

health record on Drupal- V6

Posted by vtsaf on November 15, 2009 at 10:04am

hi, i am looking a drupal health record template to see how it is working.Can anyone give a link to download it?

kind regards,
vtsaf

The Health Career Model and Drupal [#h2cm, #W2tQ]

Posted by h2cm on August 31, 2010 at 4:01pm

Hi everyone,

12 months on from my post above I have just returned from Drupalcon Copenhagen. I am still planning a new website for Hodges' model. Readers here may find the following post - and (many?) others of interest:

Drupal musings 12: Semantic Web, ICNP, Case studies and Care domains -

http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2010/08/drupal-musings-12-semantic-web-...

Included in the post above is the prospect of a one day sprint in October - November in Manchester, UK to jumpstart this project:

http://www.drupal.org.uk/forum/nw-drupal-users-volunteers-new-site-1-day...

If anyone is interested in a separate meet up to consider health, nursing, Hodges' model and Drupal please get in touch.

Best regards

Peter Jones
h2cmng at yahoo.co.uk
http://twitter.com/h2cm

Peter Jones
Lancashire, UK
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/
Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/
h2cm: help2Cmore - help-2-listen - help-2-care
http://twitter.com/h2cm

hospital module

Posted by sak003 on October 20, 2010 at 9:35am

i need to develop Hospitality site based on drupal how can i start to develop the site
i need the ready made hospital module ,how can i get that module?

Diseases and its Treatments - A Drupal health site

Posted by thiruvelan on December 22, 2010 at 12:03pm

I just completed by health site with information on sedentary life diseases such as diabetes, cholesterol, high blood pressure, etc using Drupal CMS.

Also the site has health forum - community threaded discussion on diseases and its treatments.

Healthy-ojas | Diabetes | Cholesterol

Care3g Modules

Posted by joselee on January 19, 2011 at 8:55am

Are there any beta version of Care3g modules that I can download for testing?

Done

Posted by Drong on January 23, 2011 at 3:43am

I completed my health site finally as well.. took a while to set-up.

--
Zachs Health Blog

A real healthcare site built in Drupal

Posted by manningpete on February 23, 2011 at 9:02pm

This thread seems to be an invitation for spambots.

I just finished rebuilding the Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group website in Drupal

http://www.nmpg.com

This is a site for a group of physicians affiliated with Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. We had launched a new look and feel for the site a year ago, so this project basically entailed swapping out the backend (db driven XML/XSL) with Drupal. Nothing fancy Drupal-wise (we had to host/wrap the appointment request pages because we were hosting the site externally but collecting patient info internally) and in just two weeks we've seen huge improvements SEO, traffic, site performance and improved user experience.

A couple of modules that made the project SO EASY:

CCK for custom content types for physician profiles and locations
Backup and Migrate - made migration from dev to staging to production simple simple
CKeditor and CKEditor link (makes linking to internal drupal content easy)
ICME - no more FTP! easy to browse and upload PDFs and images
global redirect, path redirect and (of course) path auto - this was the most amazing thing, I was able to set up canonical urls for SEO, and the redirects made the launch completely seamless. it was such an uneventful launch from a user perspective that our internal client hadn't even realized we'd made the switch until a day later! We had only a dozen or so 404s the first day, which were all quickly fixed. I've done many launches; these modules made it painless for everyone.
secure pages: for our appointment request and contact pages. so easy to set up.
Google analytics, xml sitemap-- these work so elegantly
In 2 minutes installed the chartbeat code on the template (didn't use the module), which is super impressive to our business users. The ability to see real time site data is thrilling to everyone.

I have been working with CMSs and ECMSs for ten years and I have never before heard content managers say, wow, cool, that's easy! during training. In fact, there was no cursing at all!

Such a wonderful experience all around. The contrast between this launch and every other launch I've ever been a party to was night and day. I love Drupal so much I want to marry it.

Hello, Have you tried yet to

Posted by puravida on June 11, 2011 at 4:34pm

Hello,

Have you tried yet to implement this type of complexity in D7? I am also building a healthcare portal and it requires very strict levels of granular security. I have everything working in D6 and it's worthy of HIPAA compliance. However, the push is for D7 and I feel that I'm creating a headache by using D6 that will require a messy, major upgrade to D7 within a year.

The problem is that I just wasted 2 days trying to get just the security part of the site working in D7 and it simply doesn't work. The modules for security using in D6 that work either aren't ported to D7, having D7 versions that do not work, or have D7 versions that sort of work and then break (not production ready).

There are too many important modules that simply don't work in D7 right out of the box (e.g. Content access, Nodeaccess, Simple access) or do not properly lock down content-type, menus, etc by roles/user (e.g. Workbench access, TAC, TAC-lite, Field permissions, Node privacy by role, Subuser).

I would love to go D7 right off and save myself headache down-the-road, but I currently see no way to do so.

If anyone else has done it, I'd be willing to pay for a conversation on the topic. ;)

Cheers,

Brandon

Nevermind, thank goodness.

Posted by puravida on June 11, 2011 at 7:42pm

Nevermind, thank goodness. TAC Lite (my last resort for access control in D7) does work. It was not intuitive, to say the least, but at least it makes it possible to stick with D7. It also helped me with the menu by hiding tabs where access would be denied (a nice feature of D7). So that's great news.

Now I'm off to discover the next obstacle I will run into. ;)

Social platform for HCPs

Posted by Lukka on October 25, 2011 at 1:48pm

Hello,

We have recently launched a new social-networking website for pharmacists in Poland - www.farmacja.net. It is quite complex solution with FB-like features as well as e-learning platform and available modules such as: CCK, Views, Panels - for content display, Heartbeat, PrivateMsg, User Relationships - for social-networking, and Quiz. UberCart was also used for paid services.

We are working on a project also based on drupal that will be a tool for monitoring patients in a pharmaceutical care programme. It would be nice if you could share your thoughts and experience on such a implementation.

Drupal as a Health Care CMS

Comments

Kosansh

Looking for a Chief Nursing Officer

I also want to bid you good

Thanks

Medical Information Systems

great stuff

Thanks!

Drupal has great potential

Medical records

Community site for Doctors with room to grow

Can you change the title of

Introduction: RMN, RGN, CPN, PG(Dip) COPE, BCS SIG, Hodges model

Hi. Please has anyone done

have you found similar to

Yes

any contributed modules used

openemr to drupal

Me too

yes, which module you use?

health record on Drupal- V6

The Health Career Model and Drupal [#h2cm, #W2tQ]

hospital module

Diseases and its Treatments - A Drupal health site

Care3g Modules

Done

A real healthcare site built in Drupal

Hello, Have you tried yet to

Nevermind, thank goodness.

Social platform for HCPs

Healthcare

Group organizers

New groups

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