OpenHospital

OpenHospital is an open-source software project for hospitals in poor and rural areas. It was developed by Informatici Senza Frontiere^[1] for use at St. Luke's Hospital, Angal, in Nebbi District, Northern Uganda. Other hospitals have since adopted the software.

History

Informatici Senza Frontiere ("IT Without Borders") was formed in 2005 after a discussion between an Italian doctor working at St. Luke's Hospital, Angal, a small rural hospital in northern Uganda, and a group of Italian IT managers about the importance of computer technology even in remote areas where to have drinkable water, medicines and competent doctors might seem a higher priority.^[1] After a few months of work by Roberto Carrer and his students at a technical school in the Veneto,^[2] an application for the hospital was ready; it was delivered in 2006.

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