[Needs-packaging] Epi Info – Community Edition

[manishmahabir]

The CDC’s National Center for Public Health Informatics (NCPHI) recently released the Epi Info™ code to the public, making it the first Public Health Information Network (PHIN) application to go open source.

The license is Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004
The full license can be read here:
http://epiinfo.codeplex.com/license

Epi Info™ is a public domain suite of software tools designed for the global community of public health practitioners and researchers. It provides for easy data entry form and database construction, a customized data entry experience, and data analyses with epidemiologic statistics, maps, and graphs for public health professionals who may lack an information technology background. Epi Info™ is used for outbreak investigations; for developing small to mid-sized disease surveillance systems; as analysis, visualization, and reporting (AVR) components of larger systems; and in the continuing education in the science of epidemiology and public health analytic methods at schools of public health around the world. The primary applications within Epi Info are:

    * MakeView - a program for creating questionnaires, automatically creating the database, and customizing the data entry process
    * Enter - a program for using the questionnaires created in MakeView to perform the data entry
    * Analysis - a program for producing statistical analyses of data and diplaying the results as lists, tables, charts, or graphs
    * Epi Map - a program for creating GIS maps overlayed with survey data
    * Epi Report - a program for combining Analysis output into professional printer-ready format or saved as HTML files for easy web publishing.

“Epi Info™” is a trademark of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The programs, documentation, and teaching materials are in the public domain and may be freely copied, distributed, and translated.

Source code is available at http://www.codeplex.com/EpiInfo/SourceControl/ListDownloadableCommits.aspx

Ubuntu compatible version has been released
'Build 7.0.0.464 and above are compatible with Ubuntu 8.04 and Mono framework.'

[santam chakraborty (pgiresident)]

This would be a very important software for health professionals looking for an opensource database and statistical analysis solution.

[Carlos Ortiz Gutierrez (antorcha)]

I am a support technician on the Social Security of Nicaragua, many users of health services are doctors, they use EPI INFO, for this reason are still using Windows XP computers in the institution there are over 300 computers with Ubuntu operating system, with in-house applications in JAVA platform. In my humble opinion I think it is worth packing this system.