GNU Health HMIS patchset 3.6.3 released with coronavirus COVID-19 coding information

Dear community

GNU Health 3.6.3 patchset has been released !

Priority: High

Table of Contents

• About GNU Health Patchsets
• Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center
• Summary of this patchset
• Installation notes
• List of issues related to this patchset

About GNU Health Patchsets

We provide "patchsets" to stable releases. Patchsets allow applying bug fixes and updates on production systems. Always try to keep your production system up-to-date with the latest patches.

Patches and Patchsets maximize uptime for production systems, and keep your system updated, without the need to do a whole installation.

NOTE: Patchsets are applied on previously installed systems only. For new, fresh installations, download and install the whole tarball (ie, gnuhealth-3.6.3.tar.gz)

= Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center =

Starting GNU Health 3.x series, you can do automatic updates on the GNU Health HMIS kernel and modules using the GNU Health control center program.

Please refer to the administration manual section ( https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Control_Center )

The GNU Health control center works on standard installations (those done following the installation manual on wikibooks). Don't use it if you use an alternative method or if your distribution does not follow the GNU Health packaging guidelines.

Summary of this patchset

Patch 3.6.3 updates World Health Organization ICD10 with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 code (U07.1)

It also fixes an issue when creating a page of life from an encounter that has an empty main condition.
in addition, updated gnuhealth-setup and gnuhealth control center are also included.

Installation Notes

You must apply previous patchsets before installing this patchset. If your patchset level is 3.6.2, then just follow the general instructions.
You can find the patchsets at GNU Health main download site at GNU.org (https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/health/)

In most cases, GNU Health Control center (gnuhealth-control) takes care of applying the patches for you.

Follow the general instructions at
* https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Control_Center

After applying the patches, make a full update of your GNU Health database as explained in the documentation.

• Restart the GNU Health server

List of issues and tasks related to this patchset

• GH HMIS server. task #15562: Include coronavirus COVID-19 in ICD10 codes
• GH HMIS server. bug #57695: Traceback when creating a page of life associated to an empty evaluation
• GH HMIS server. task #15561: Werkzeug 1.0 is not compatible with Trytond 5.0

For detailed information about each issue, you can visit https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=health
For detailed information about each task, you can visit https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?group=health

For detailed information you can read about Patches and Patchsets
* https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Patches_and_Patchsets

Happy and healthy hacking !

Dr. Luis Falcon, MD, MSc
President, GNU Solidario
GNU Health: Freedom and Equity in Healthcare
www.gnuhealth.org
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