Care 2x

Administrator’s Guide

Open Hospital
An

product

Table of Contents
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Abstract

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2

Introduction

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3

Installation

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3.1

OpenHospital

3.1.1
3.1.2
3.1.3
3.1.4

3.2

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Java Runtime Environment
MySQL Server and OpenHospital DB
Configure OpenHospital
Run OpenHospital

Portable OpenHospital

Folders

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4.1

134.2

Foldertree in Portable OpenHospital for Linux

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4.3

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Foldertree in OpenHospital
Foldertree in Portable OpenHospital for Windows

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Configuration Files
5.1

generalData.properties

5.1.1
5.1.2
5.1.3
5.1.4
5.1.5
5.1.6
5.1.7
5.1.8
5.1.9
5.1.10
5.1.11
5.1.12
5.1.13
5.1.14
5.1.15
5.1.16
5.1.17
5.1.18
5.1.19
5.1.20
5.1.21
5.1.22
5.1.23
5.1.245.1.25

LANGUAGE
SINGLEUSER
AUTOMATICLOT
PATIENTSHEET
PATIENTBILL
BILLSREPORT
BILLSREPORTMONTH
PHARMACEUTICALORDER
PHARMACEUTICALSTOCK
PATIENTEXTENDED
OPDEXTENDED
MATERNITYRESTARTINJUNE
LABEXTENDED
LABMULTIPLEINSERT
INTERNALPHARMACIES
MERGEFUNCTION
INTERNALVIEWER
SMSENABLED (not yet implemented)
MAINMENUALWAYSONTOP
RECEIPTPRINTER
VIDEOMODULEENABLED
PATIENTVACCINEEXTENDEDENHANCEDSEARCH
XMPPMODULEENABLED
DEBUG

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5.2

database.properties

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5.3

log4j.properties

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5.4

txtPrinter.properties

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5.5

xmpp.properties

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5.6

Bundles

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5.6.1

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New Translations

Reports
6.1

Compatibility: iReport® 3.0.0

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Links

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1 Abstract
This application is the first of a set of software products that ISF1 has developed to support the
management and the activities of the St. Luke Hospital in Angal (Uganda). After that mission, the
St. Luke Hospital has become only the first one of a long list of hospitals that found this software
useful.
All the work was realized as an open-source2project using only open-source development
software.
This application software consists of the following parts:
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Pharmacy management
Laboratory management
OPD management
Patient admission and discharge management
Pregnancy management
Malnutrition control management
Vaccines database
Patient billing support
Therapy management
Internal communicationStatistics and printing

This document describes how to install the application and how to configure it in your
environment, enabling and disabling functionalities as well as manage users.
The reader will not find in this manual the information he needs for the use of the application
software; to have such information you should consult our User’s Guide, supplied with the
application software.1
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Informatici Senza Frontiere = Computer scientists without frontiers
Open-source = software for which the original source code is made available to anyone free of charge.

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2 Introduction
The aim of this program is to manage, in the simplest manner, the hospital administrative operations
like registering patients and laboratory analysis, and to producestatistics for the health ministry. In
the following chapters the users will find all the information they need in order to use properly the
program.

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3 Installation
3.1

OpenHospital

OpenHospital is an stand-alone Java software that not require installation. The .zip file can be
copied and moved everywhere in your system, whether it is Windowsor Linux.
It acts like a client application. The server part is carried out by the DBMS (Database Management
System) that is, from its first version, the free and open-source MySQL.
The real part of the installation it concerns the JRE installation, the MySQL Server and the creation
of the DB, which is done through the execution of a script in the folder mysql/ within the .zip file
folders....