GNUHealthCon 2020 - privacy and cryptography, COVID-19, KDE Delivering Software, MyGNUHealth, health literacy

The GNU Health Conference (GHCon) and the International Workshop on E-Health in Emerging Economies (IWEEE) had online participants from Gabon, Brazil, Japan, Austria, the United States, Argentina, Spain, Germany, Chile, Belgium, Jamaica. , England, Greece and Switzerland. GHCon is an annual conference that brings together enthusiasts and developers of the Libre Health & Hospital Information System.

Dr. Richard Fitton and Steve and Oliver , two of his patients. - non-technical discussions covering key issues in Social Medicine, health literacy , Global digital health records

Armand Mpassy also spoke about the GNU Health challenges for IT illiterates - Case Study: Patient Workflow in the Outpatient Department .

About topics of confidentiality and cryptography , they had discussions from Isabela Bagueros from Tor, Survival of the surveillance pandemic

Ricardo Morte Ferrer on A proposal to implement a denunciation channel in GNU Health

Florian Dold on GNU Taler: A payment system by the GNU Project .

Axel Braun , a member of the openSUSE board and a member of the GNU Health core team, focused on GNU Health packaging and the openSUSE Open Build Service (OBS).

Sébastien Jogdone , the leader of the Orthanc project , presented Using WebAssembly to render medical images , an open standard that allows you to run C / C ++ code on a web browser.

Aleix Pol , President of KDE eV, introduced KDE Delivering Software , focusing on delivering code available for many different platforms, especially for mobile devices.

Cristián Maureira-Fredes, the leader of the Qt for Python project, in his presentation about Qt for Python: past, present and future! , spoke about the history and future evolutions of the project, such as PySide6, the latest Python package and the development environment for Qt6.

Dimitris Kardarakos , presented a key concept on modern applications, ie convergence, the property of the application to adapt to different platforms and geometries. MyGNUHealth is an example of a converged application that can be used on both desktop and mobile devices.

Ingrid Spessotti and Fiorella de la Lama, in their discussion Outpatient follow-up and home care for patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 , explained some of the functionality and benefits of these GNU Health packages, for example:

• Real-time observation and epidemiological surveillance
• Automatic notification of the disease to be notified to the Ministry of Health
• Reporting cases and contacts
• Call log, monitoring of signs and symptoms.
• Risk factors for each individual (for example, chronic diseases, socio-economic status ...)
• Geolocation of suspected or confirmed cases
• Clinical management and follow-up for both hospitalization and outpatient cases.

Carli Scotta and Mario Puntin presented the design, development and implementation of a dentistry module for GNU Health: experience at the Humberto D'Angelo Primary Care Center in Argentina , a package that will underpin future dental functionality in GNU Health 3.8.