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100 Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Developed in the University of the Philippines (UP)

On the 100th year of the Premier State University in the Philippines

— The only University that has declared the use of Free and Open Source Software as a policy, providing continuously both organizational and budgetary support to an ongoing program towards migration to FOSS (that includes training and development of training materials, faculty grant and student thesis grant for FOSS related research projects and FOSS helpdesk) for the entire UP System that includes 7 constituent universities in 7 campuses all over the Philippines —

I will try to gather and list Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) developed in the UP and hopefully approximate a total of 100 or even more. This will be a continuous and evolving list that’s why I will devote a separate permanent page for this (see link below)..

As the list grows, I will try to provide some details like description, the name of the unit or people behind the development and the design architecture / requirement. Will also try to provide links for demo and / or downloading if possible.

Hopefully, others will contribute to this list or even give suggestions or corrections if ever I wrongly listed softwares that are not supposed to be in this list.

The List:

1. Portable Wireless Medical Records — a prototype of a WAP based medical record for handheld devices (including cellular phones). Provides health providers with a way to consult and update a patient’s record wherever they are. (UPM – Medical Informatics Unit – UP College of Medicine)

2. Blood Bank Infomation Package (BLIMP) — a donor and transfusion management system for the blood bank. (UPM – Medical Informatics Unit – UP College of Medicine)

3. Community Health Information Tracking System (CHITS) — a health center based information system for decision support that is compliant with the infomation requirements of the Department of Health. (UPM – Medical Informatics Unit – UP College of Medicine). Know more: http://www.chits.info/

4. Surgical Pathology Registry — a repository of surgical pathology reports. (UPM – Medical Informatics Unit – UP College of Medicine)

5. PCSREG – a web based surgical information system that complies with the XML reporting requirements of the Philippine College of Surgeons (includes the Trauma Registry, Infectious Disease registry, and Cancer Registry). (UPM – Medical Informatics Unit – UP College of Medicine)

6. Integrated Surgical Information System (ISIS) — a web based surgical information system for decision support. (UPM – Medical Informatics Unit – UP College of Medicine)

7. HealthCity — an interactive web based engine that quizzes students on clinical dilemmas using the question and answer method. (UPM – Medical Informatics Unit – UP College of Medicine)

8. Philippine National Drug Formulary for the Palm — A searchable database of the Philippine National Drug Formulary (PNDF) on a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) running on Palm OS. (UPM – Medical Informatics Unit – UP College of Medicine)

9. Design and Implementation of BuddyWorks: Use of Telehealth Network Services in Community Partnership Programs — Build and deploy telehealth service network to enable human resource-rich academic institutions and clinical specialty organizations to make knowledge and expertise available where it is geographically and physically impossible to do so, using information technology. (UPM – National Telehealth Center). The site: http://telehealth.upm.edu.ph/bw/

10. Online Student Evaluation of Teachers (UPM – CAS – DPSM)

11. Alumni Database with job-placement (UPM – CAS – DPSM)

12. Faculty Database (UPM – CAS – DPSM)

13. Computerized Registration System – Student Records System (UPM – IMS). Actual site: http://crs.upm.edu.ph

14. Personnel Data Tracking System (PDTS). Actual site: http://pdts.upm.edu.ph

15. Epidemiology Tools (UPV)

16. Linux Desktop Clean-up (UPV)

17. UP Office V.1.0 download site (UPD). with UP Office for Linux v1.0 Templates download site