[Health-announce] GNU Health 3.6.4 released!

[Luis Falcon]

Original message from GNU Savannah at
https://savannah.gnu.org/news/approve.php?approve=1&group=health&id=9704)

Dear community:

GNU Health 3.6.4 patchset has been released !

*Priority*: High

= Table of Contents =

* About GNU Health Patchsets
* Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center
* Summary of this patchset
* Installation notes
* List of other issues related to this patchset

= About GNU Health Patchsets =

We provide "patchsets" to stable releases. Patchsets allow applying bug
fixes and updates on production systems. Always try to keep your
production system up-to-date with the latest patches.

Patches and Patchsets maximize uptime for production systems, and keep
your system updated, without the need to do a whole installation. 

NOTE: Patchsets are applied on previously installed systems only. For
new, fresh installations, download and install the whole tarball (ie,
gnuhealth-3.6.4.tar.gz)

= Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center =

Starting GNU Health 3.x series, you can do automatic updates on the GNU
Health HMIS kernel and modules using the GNU Health control center
program. 

Please refer to the administration manual section (
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Control_Center ) 

The GNU Health control center works on standard installations (those
done following the installation manual on wikibooks). Don't use it if
you use an alternative method or if your distribution does not follow
the GNU Health packaging guidelines.

= Summary of this patchset =

GNU Health 3.6.4 includes:
The most relevant features on this version are:

* health_contact_tracing package: Allows to trace people that have been
  in contact with a person suspected of being positive of a infectious
  disease. Name, demographics, place and date of contact, sanitary
  region (operational sector), type of contact, exposure risk and
  follow-up status are some of the information that is recorded per
  contact.

* Epidemiological Surveillance: A new report that provides
  epidemiological information on an specific health condition. Data on
  prevalence of the disease as well as the incidence over a period of
  time. It produces epi curves for new confirmed cases, deaths related
  to the disease (both immediate cause as well as underlying
  conditions) from death certificates. It also shows very relevant
  charts on the population affected from a demographic and
  socioeconomic point of view (age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic
  status).

* Lab and lab crypto packages: When a disease is confirmed from a
  positive lab test result, GNU Health LIMS automatically includes the
  health condition in the patient medical history upon the validation
  of the lab manager.

* GH Control center and gnuhealth-setup have been updated.

= Installation Notes =

You must apply previous patchsets before installing this patchset. If
your patchset level is 3.6.3, then just follow the general
instructions. You can find the patchsets at GNU Health main download
site at GNU.org (https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/health/)

In most cases, GNU Health Control center (gnuhealth-control) takes care
of applying the patches for you.  

Pre-requisites for upgrade to 3.6.4: Matplotlib
(You can skip this step if you are doing a fresh installation.)
If you are *upgrading* from 3.6.3, you need to install first the
matplotlib package: 

$ pip3 install --upgrade --user matplotlib

Now follow the general instructions at 
* https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Control_Center 

After applying the patches, make a full update of your GNU Health
database as explained in the documentation.

 When running "gnuhealth-control" for the first time, you will see the
 following message: "Please restart now the update with the new control
 center" Please do so. Restart the process and the update will continue.
 
* Restart the GNU Health server

= List of other issues and tasks related to this patchset =

* bug #58104: view_attributes() method should extend list of attributes
* bug #58358: Need current SES in main patient info
* task #15563: Assign health condition from a confirmed lab
* task #15562: ((updated)) Include coronavirus COVID-19 in ICD10 codes 

 For detailed information about each issue, you can visit
 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=health For detailed information
 about each task, you can visit
 https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?group=health

 For detailed information you can read about Patches and Patchsets
 * https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Patches_and_Patchsets

Happy and healthy hacking !

-- 
Dr. Luis Falcon, MD, MSc
President, GNU Solidario
GNU Health: Freedom and Equity in Healthcare
www.gnuhealth.org
Fingerprint: ACBF C80F C891 631C 68AA 8DC8 C015 E1AE 0098 9199

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