GNU Health HMIS patchset 3.6.4 released

Dear community

GNU Health 3.6.4 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 other 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-3.6.4.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

GNU Health 3.6.4 includes:

The most relevant features on this version are:

health_contact_tracing package: Allows to trace people that have been in contact with a person suspected of being positive of a infectious disease. Name, demographics, place and date of contact, sanitary region (operational sector), type of contact, exposure risk and follow-up status are some of the information that is recorded per contact.

Epidemiological Surveillance: A new report that provides epidemiological information on an specific health condition. Data on prevalence of the disease as well as the incidence over a period of time. It produces epi curves for new confirmed cases, deaths related to the disease (both immediate cause as well as underlying conditions) from death certificates. It also shows very relevant charts on the population affected from a demographic and socioeconomic point of view (age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status).

Lab and lab crypto packages: When a disease is confirmed from a positive lab test result, GNU Health LIMS automatically includes the health condition in the patient medical history upon the validation of the lab manager.

GH Control center and gnuhealth-setup have been updated.

Installation Notes

You must apply previous patchsets before installing this patchset. If your patchset level is 3.6.3, 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.

Pre-requisites for upgrade to 3.6.4: Matplotlib (You can skip this step if you are doing a fresh installation.)
If you are upgrading from 3.6.3, you need to install the matplotlib package:

pip3 install --upgrade --user matplotlib

Now 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.

When running "gnuhealth-control" for the first time, you will see the following message: "Please restart now the update with the new control center" Please do so. Restart the process and the update will continue.

Restart the GNU Health server

List of other issues and tasks related to this patchset

bug #58104: view_attributes() method should extend list of attributes
bug #58358: Need current SES in main patient info
task #15563: Assign health condition from a confirmed lab
task #15562: ((updated)) Include coronavirus COVID-19 in ICD10 codes

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
http://www.gnuhealth.org
Fingerprint: ACBF C80F C891 631C 68AA 8DC8 C015 E1AE 0098 9199