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Medical is a free, centralized Health and Hospital Information System that provides the following functionality : - Electronic Medical Record (EMR) - Hospital Information System (HIS) - Health Information System Electronic Medical Record : The doctor will be able to keep all his patient's clinical history, evaluations, prescriptions, billings, allergies, family history, socio-economic status, education level, ... Hospital Information System (HIS) : Medical is a great tool to run a Hospital or Health institution. You can manage the resources of the institution: Human resources (employees), Invoicing, Sales Management, Purchase Management, Stock control, ... Health Information System : The information encoded in Medical uses industry standards ( ICD-10 , HL7, SNOMED and ICD-10-PCS ). That information could either be exported to a National Health Ministry for analysis, or be used in realtime using the Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence functionality of OpenERP. We can have r...

Two popular open source library systems ( Koha and Evergreen ) do exist and they both not only offer open access to the information stored within them (to those running the systems, not to just anyone on the web), but they also take advantage of open data on the web in order to generate a great big catalog mashup. For example, both systems use APIs provided by various book jacket and book review services to mash catalog data up with book cover images and reviews written either by professionals or just book lovers on the web. The end result is a more browsing-friendly interface than most are used to in their online library catalogs, something more akin to Amazon.com than Library of Congress.