Definition
MEDILIG – Medical Life Guard: An EHR/EMR cross-platform software for the design, implementation, and use of autonomous, open, database models for multilingual medical knowledge management systems from primary care to continuing care.
At A Glance
Fully tested, fully operational open-platform EHR/EMR software for health professionals and IT developers. The main feature of the project is the extensive continuous health care record schema of the database built into popular and robust relational database management systems, Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL server, with multilingual, international health coding standards. Create entry forms, catalogues, and reports with a minimal effort from rapid application development environments such as Microsoft Office – Access and OpenOffice – Base. Connect to web hosting services and/or use email to exchange and share medical information with others.
Target Group
MEDILIG can be easily adopted to the workflow of a clinic or the practise of a physician. It may also customised as a personal health record to include all the data from patient encounters.
Clinical Features
- Supports the management of patient’s administrative and clinical data including:
- admissions
- visits
- demographics
- history
- operations
- labs
- imaging
- medical transcription
- multimedia documents
- Fully tested and operational on the neurosurgery domain with a lot of data
Technical Features
- It can be tailored quickly to cover precisely the needs of any medical specialty or physician
- It can be linked easily to other databases
- An extensive database schema for continuous health care that follow standard clinical practice terms with an easy nomenclature for developers
- Complete separation of the database schema from the presentation layer, independent development of the database layer
- Visualization of MEDILIG schema as an ontology in Protege or as a graph in DBVisualizer
- Multilingual look-up tables with international health care coding standards (ICD10, OPCS44, NHS, LOINC, SNOMED) for the encoding of information
- Microsoft Technology platform version based on popular SQL Server and Access products
- Linux open software platform version based on MySQL Server and OpenOffice Base products
- Truly rapid application development thanks to the powerful integrated environment of SQL Server – Access and/or MySQL – OpenOffice
- No coding for creation of catalogues, reports, entry forms and navigation through them
- Secure and easy database administration with Microsoft SQL Server or MySQL server
Advantages
- MEDILIG is open software therefore it has all the advantages of open software such as non-exclusive support from a community of technical users and developers. HEALIS is coordinating MEDILIG support, development and dissemination of information to the users
- MEDILIG is distributed freely without any charge
- MEDILIG is a collaborative software tool and it can be part of a collaborative software platform for health professionals
- MEDILIG is ideal for research and education thanks to the open database architecture
- MEDILIG maintenance is a relatively easy task and can be automated for the non-expert, non-technical user
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Documentation
The documentation has not been updated since 13th of September 2010. Visit MEDILIG at SourceForge.
Publications & Presentations
In English
A presentation entitled “NeuroHEALIS - A Neurosurgical Health Information System for Integration of Clinical Research and Clinical Care” presented on the 7th ICICTH Conference held at Samos, July 26 2009
A paper entitled “A Modern Neuro-Surgical Operating Room at Evangelismos Hospital” was presented on the “Data Mining in BioMedicine 2009 Conference - DMINBIO 2009” held in Athens Information Technology (AIT) at Paiania, Athens, May 7-8 2009
Based on the modern operating room at “Evangelismos” General Hospital Department of Neurosurgery organized two advanced training courses in the year 2008, “Stereotactic Techniques and Deep Brain Stimulation” and “Computer-guided Neurosurgical Navigation” to train European neurosurgeons. The minister of public health Dimitris Avramopoulos congratulated Prof. Sakas and his team for the successful outcome of their efforts.
In Greek
Ελεύθερη ανακοίνωση με τίτλο “Η συμβολή των Πολυμέσων στην Νευροχειρουργική Εκπαίδευση”που παρουσιάστηκε στο 22ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Νευροχειρουργικής στην Αθήνα το 2008. Η παρουσίαση δείχνει την υλοποίηση και εφαρμογή κατάλληλης υλικοτεχνικής υποδομής για την καταγραφή και ψηφιοποίηση της χειρουργικής επέμβασης, μετάδοση σε πραγματικό χρόνο και αρχειοθέτηση τμήματος αυτής σε ειδική βάση πολυμέσων.
Ελεύθερη ανακοίνωση με τίτλο “Η συμβολή της Ιατρικής Πληροφορικής στην Νευροχειρουργική”που παρουσιάστηκε στο 21ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Νευροχειρουργικής στη Ρόδο το 2007. Το δημοσίευμα αυτό είναι το πρώτο με εκτενή αναφορά στο έργο της Ιατρικής Πληροφορικής που επιτελέστηκε στην Νευροχειρουργική Κλινική στο Θεραπευτήριο “Ο Ευαγγελισμός”.
Αποσπάσματα από το άρθρο “Οι νέες τεχνολογίες στην υπηρεσία των Ελλήνων νευροχειρουργών”της δημοσιογράφου Θεοδώρας Τσώλη στο Βήμα, Παρασκευή 30 Νοεμβρίου 2007.
Cross-References
Microsoft CodePlex Open Source Community – MEDILIG Project registered
- Medical Free/Libre and Open Source Software (MEDFLOSS) – MEDILIG Project registered
Medical Free/Libre and Open Source Software (MEDFLOSS) - MEDILIG listed and ranked by popularity
Free and Open Source Software for Health - MEDILIG Listed in eHealth Applications
Herb Lainchbury Blog - Open Data vs Open Source - Comment about MEDILIG
50 Awesome Open Source Apps You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of - MEDILIG Listed
- Re: MEDILIG project with OdBL + GPL License - Discussion