elementalClinic Blog

Part of my job involves development on elementalClinic (emC). emC is a few years old, and has undergone a lot of architectural change; it started as a collection of CGI scripts, grew into a collection of scripts, templates, and modules, and made the transition to a mod_perl application in late 2006.

Dieter has been spending the past few weeks getting patient scheduling up and running for elementalClinic, our open sourceOpen source software is computer software for which the human-readable source code is made available under a copyright license (or arrangement such as the public domain) that meets the Open Source Definition. electronic health system for mental health.

Stacy is going through the last few bits of QA right now and everything is looking really nice.

We've been hard at work this week making the installation of elementalClinic easier. It used to take a lot of Linux knowledge to get emC set up for your clinic but this week we've released it as an Ubuntu Hardy package so if you're comfortable installing applications in Linux you should be able to get it up and running in less than 5 minutes.

Here's how you can get it running:

One of the issues with the old emC theme system is that when you wanted to modify the look of a feature you had to copy over all the layout files into a new directory to make the edits you needed. This led to an extraordinary amount of redundant code which made upgrades not as enjoyable as they could be.