Re: [Gnumed-devel] meditux - compromed

[benny_berger]

Hi all,

as Carsten already mentioned - Compromed was developed by a commercial vendor 
for a long time. Okay, afaik it was developed by a single programmer/doctor, 
based on MS-DOS. And it still is. I met Meditux on the Linuxtag 2006 (because i 
was working for a case study and thought about cooperating with an already used 
system) and they showed me a running version of their work:

- Compromed itself is used as a billing module but is a "full" EMR programm. It 
has been used in around 20-40 surgerys.
- After Compromed got bankrupt / stopped support  (i donŽt know for sure), 
Meditux (or better MultiData-GmbH, where the developers come from) bought it
- Since their first ideas (i think in 2005) they replaced some parts of the old 
DOS-GUI of Compromed with QT4-GUI-Elements and developed a simple document 
management system. Also they invented some statistic features in OpenOffice.

- After they published the first ideas of Meditux, they got into bad trouble 
with their former Partner (COMPUGROUP), because they propagated their software 
as open and independent from the pharma-sponsored systems. Their was lots of 
trouble with their attorneys going around, they published the letters online (i 
think it was on compromed.de or multidata-gmbh.de) and ran into trouble again. 

So, its sad but true, that Meditux (or Compromed) is used in around 20 surgerys 
but is going down like "Titanic" - if it isnŽt already at the bottom of the 
sea. Afaik, the main developer of Meditux is receiving mails from the 
Gnumed-Devel List, too. Perhaps he can give an insight of their actual work.

Benny
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