We are very happy to announce that the upcoming version of GNU Health Hospital Information System has entered feature-complete alpha stage. This upcoming version of GNU Health HIS 5.0 supposes over a year of work and is the largest release in terms of functionality and refactoring.

GNU Health HIS 5.0 is expected to be released by the end of June.

This new release comes after over a year of development to deliver state-of-the-art libre technology and user experience. In a nutshell:

• Tryton 7.0 LTS support
• New functionality for patient procedures and medical interventions
• Improved reporting and analytics
• Enhanced the Laboratory Information System (GNU LIMS – Occhiolino)
• New features on patient obstetric history and pregnancy related evaluations
• Improved ergonomics and views on demographics and patient related information.
• Improved medical genetics and family history taking. Update to the latest genes, proteins and natural variants datasets from UniProt and HUGO
• Enhanced socoeconomic and family functionalty assessment
• Extensively revised Medical Imaging, DICOM worklists and Orthanc packages
• Reorganize nursing and ambulatory care packages
• Enhanced patient body composition and anthropometrics
• Enhanced “Focus on” patient section, including automated settings and mental health
• New insurance and billing features for medical interventions and insurance plans.
• Improved patient safety and allergic conditions checks and prescription writing

On the technical side we have worked on:

• Migration to Python Poetry and pyproject.toml from setuptools
• Increased modularity and minimize dependencies among packages
• Simplified installation and administration (Virtual machine images, pip, ansible)
• Improved stability using virtual environment in the installation
• Over 30 localization and language teams at Codeberg.

At this point, our focus in on testing, translation, packaging and documentation. In the coming days we’ll migrate our community server so we can all test the upcoming version.

For those of you on GNU Health 4.4, please start thinking on the migration project to GH HIS 5.0. This new version is a major leap that delivers many benefits, so we highly encourage you to upgrade. As always, the migration methods and tools are included.

We’d like to invite you to translate GNU Health at Codeberg weblate translation instance and to report any issues you may find during this period.

Don’t forget to follow us in Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/@gnuhealth) to get the latest on this and other GNU Health news!

Stay tuned and happy hacking!

About GNU HealthGNU Health is a Libre, community driven project from GNU Solidario, a non-profit humanitarian organization focused on Social Medicine. Our project has been adopted by public and private health institutions and laboratories, multilateral organizations and national public health systems around the world.

The GNU Health project provides the tools for individuals, health professionals, institutions and governments to proactively assess and improve the underlying determinants of health, from the socioeconomic agents to the molecular basis of disease. From primary health care to precision medicine.

The following are the main components that make up the GNU Health ecosystem:

• Hospital Management (HMIS)
• Social Medicine and Public Health
• Laboratory Management (Occhiolino)
• Personal Health Record (MyGNUHealth)
• Bioinformatics and Medical Genetics
• Thalamus and Federated health networks
• GNU Health embedded on Single Board devices

GNU Health is a GNU (www.gnu.org) official package, awarded with the Free Software Foundation award of Social benefit. GNU Health has been declared a Digital Public Good ,adopted by many hospitals, governments and multilateral organizations around the globe.