[Health] GnuHealth for Large Lay-in Maternity Clinic

[Kurt Symanzik]

Hello,

I am a software developer who has volunteered to research, potentially 
customize, and install an electronic medical record system for the 
largest "lay-in" maternity clinic in the Philippines, i.e. they use 
midwives. They conduct about 20,000 pre-natal visits per year and 
deliver 1,500 to 2,000 babies a year. This is a charity organization 
that offers these services for free to impoverished families. I live in 
the Philippines in the same city and am a friend of the founders of the 
organization.

We have concluded that GnuHealth is the strongest match for our needs 
and one of the strengths that it has is it's ability to be customized 
relatively easily for our needs due to Tryton. But they have also found 
that the health_gyneco module is not suited for the information that 
they are already collecting nor for their reporting needs to the 
government. In a broad stroke, about half of the fields in the module 
they don't need and about half of the fields that they do need are not 
there at the present time.

A decision will need to be made on whether to create a new module 
specific to their needs or to discuss potentially extending the 
health_gyneco module via pull requests, etc. (or a little of both). My 
request pertains to guidance in this and related matters: do you have 
any recommendations as we proceed? Words of advice, etc.? Recommended 
practices?

Thank you for your time.

Kurt Symanzik