Re: Android GNUmed client

Karsten Hilbert <[email protected]> writes:

Hi Karsten,

Thanks for your reply.

> Am Wed, Jun 03, 2026 at 10:18:30AM +0300 schrieb Benson Muite:
>
>> Thanks for this software.  Am interested in creating an open source
>> Android client. From the manual, there was some documentation on a
>> mobile interface:
>> https://github.com/ncqgm/gnumed/blob/master/gnumed/gnumed/doc/website/GNUmedManual.adoc
>> 
>> does this still exist somewhere?
>
> Not really in any useable shape or form.
>

Ok.

>> For the mobile application, there are two possible ones. One for a
>> clinician which would have a reduced set of the functionality in the
>> wxWidgets client, but maybe helpful to have in a reception, for example
>> for checking appointments.
>
> A lean, low-bandwidth client for
>
> - manually retrieving/displaying single documents from the archive
> - listing lab results
> - listing SOAP notes
> - listing basic patient demographics
> - showing some sort of patient list
>
> would already go a loooong way towards real usefulness to
> the clinician doing house calls/nursing home visits. It
> needn't be fancy at all.
>

Thanks.

>> A second for patients, who may wish to
>> schedule appointments and/or record data such as medications taken or
>> measurements such as blood pressure.  Would this be useful?
>
> In a way, yes, but I'd expect it to be more useful to
> integrate GNUmed with OpenReception such that patients can
> interact with *that*, using their interfaces, and the GNUmed
> instance being run in a practice interfaces with
> OpenReception.
>
> 	open-reception.org
>

For appointment scheduling, will check if OpenReception would be
willing to be interoperable with XMPP, in particular:
https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0471.html

Raised an issue:
https://github.com/open-reception/appointment-booking-software/issues/290


> Regards,
> Karsten
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