User:Madeline Allleft/Care2x

Care2x is a web-based hospital information system. It serves to integrate various information systems (within the hospital) into a single information system. Care2x is an open source project based on the GPL license, i.e. the software and its source code are freely available to everyone.

History and development
In 2002, the first code was published by Elpidio Latorilla. Since then, over 100 Care2x members from more than 20 countries have developed. Since 2004, from Tanzania to a special version for East African hospitals, as well as in general work for third world countries. In this case fundamentally different modules such as pharmacy, laboratory and ARV billing and storage module and were specially extended by Robert Meggle or redesigned. Meanwhile, find, based on this work, active pilot phase in Nepal and Brazil.

Components
Care2x consists of four components, but they can be installed separately.


 * Hospital Information System
 * Practical Information System
 * Central data server
 * Health exchange protocol (electronic data interchange)