Drupal as a Health Care CMS

Submitted by srrpenna on Wed, 2007-01-03 12:46

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

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Healthcare

Kosansh

kosansh - Fri, 2007-01-05 22:22

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 )

Medical Information Systems

humaneasy - Tue, 2007-01-09 20:12

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

srrpenna - Sat, 2007-01-13 01:21

your work is great and impressive.

Thanks!

humaneasy - Wed, 2007-01-17 20:58

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.

Medical records

alldirt@drupal.... - Sat, 2007-02-10 00:07

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

dfunkd-gdo - Sun, 2007-02-11 03:06

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

KarenS - Wed, 2007-04-18 14:48

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

h2cm-gdo - Wed, 2009-07-15 21:01

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

Hi. Please has anyone done

zeezhao - Fri, 2009-08-28 13:44

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

health record on Drupal- V6

vtsaf - Sun, 2009-11-15 10:04

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

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