Long overdue and much awaited, an Electronic Health Record or EHR has been released for the Philippine healthcare system. Quoting DabawGNU, the co-developer of this EHR,
The first beta release of FFEHR, an electronic health record application commissioned by the ASEAN+3 node of the International Open Source Network (IOSN), was released to the public last April 28, 2008. This release comes six months after the University of the Philippines Manila-National Telehealth Center tasked free/open source software (F/OSS) programmer Nathaniel Jayme and Davao-based F/OSS organization DabaweGNU, Inc. to jointly develop FFEHR. This release marks an important milestone as the project now opens its doors for public review.
Basically just a first step towards implementing a well designed and stable EHR for our healthcare, it will definitely fuel an onslaught of interest from the so many healthcare professionals who have wanted a robust, scalable and free EHR.
Details of this said project can be read here in FFEHR website or the DabawGNU site. A beta version for linux and windows can be downloaded here.
