ieziar's blog

I happen to pass by the site and noticed very little activity, and thought this may show a lull in FreeMED development. This however is not true. Those who have shown interest in FreeMED development were invited to a private forum. Thus, most of us don't have time to post twice. Regardless, there has been a flurry of activity on 0.9. A lot of discussion on the user interface has been going on. Much effort is being made in providing the next release of FreeMED to be a user centric application, with what is hoped to be the most intuitive and cohesive interface yet.

It's been a while since the last Step-by-Step, for a multitude of reasons. But my practice integration of FreeMED is currently on hold.
Not currently any fault of the app, I've just gotten to take a look at 0.9.0, and with the HUGE changes to the code (lots of thanks to Jeff). I think we'll wait, continue all we can to the development of .9 and evaluate integration with our current procedures.
I also want to work on a more new user friendly install of FreeMED.

Well, since my last entry I have been wading through the application and sending questions to the development team. I have been trying to see how our current data will migrate (Advatange Database from other, unnamed practice management system). Using the DB Manager I have exported all the existing tables to .csv files. I'm currently slow going, as with almost no programming experience I have been viewing and modifying the csv files in Open Office spreadsheets, saving back to csv files and then using phpmyadmin to import them.

So the evaluation went a little differently then I had planned. Since it was a bit tough getting a handle on all the options of freemed just from poking around the demo site, I decided to jump in and install it on a testing server. I have Ubuntu 6.10, Edgy Eft on a vanilla i386 platform.
All in all install went pretty well. LOOK AT THIS PAGE FIRST!!

My own documentation:

This is nothing more then a noob trying to document a transition from proprietary practice management software to OSS, and not only avoid upgrade costs, but more importantly utilize current open source medical grade software solutions.

Evaluation of specific practice requirements

• patient demographics
• patient scheduling
• system connectivity
• resource utilization
• resource tracking
• integration with current software
• other