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! Important Notice !

This application is unmaintained and significantly outdated.

Refer to the http://opal.openhealthcare.org.uk documentation for current information about Opal

This was a hack day project. Its no longer supported.

This is a Renal patient management application built using the OPAL framework.

Renal ward handover is a prime example of healthcare professions working in isolation; doctors, nurses and dialysis staff all have their own separate handover, creating lists using Microsoft word and distributing print-outs to their colleagues, often needlessly replicating, with a lack of transparency and inter-professional communication decreasing the speed that good clinical decisions can be made and thus impacting patient care. Our innovation is simple; making sure the entire team is on the same page, literally and metaphorically; an electronic handover form where all three groups can input information and see all, helping them speed up decisions and giving a much more holistic overview of the patient to aid these decisions.

References: Cheah LP, Amott DH, Pollard J, Watters DAK. Electronic medical handover: toward safer medical care. Med J Aust 2005;183(7):369-372. Sexton JB, Helmreich RL, Neilands TB, Rowan K, Vella K, Boyden J, Roberts PR, Thomas EJ. The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties, Benchmarking Data, and Emerging Research. BMC Health Services Research 2006;6:44

Access: availability of the latest source code, developer support mechanisms, public roadmap, and transparency of decision-making

Development: the ability of developers to influence the content and direction of the project

Derivatives: the ability for developers to create and distribute derivatives of the source code in the form of spin-off projects, handsets or applications.

Community: a community structure that does not discriminate between developers

(from http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2011/07/the-open-governance-index-measuring-openness-from-android-to-webkit/)

##Open source

GNU Affero GPLv3