With immediate effect the PUMA Repository (Pascal Units for Medical Applications) is available from SourceForge and berlios. The PUMA Repository is a collection of Pascal units for medical informatics. It is compatible with and was developed for Lazarus and Free Pascal, the units are partly also compatible with other Pascal dialects including Delphi and winsoft Pocket Studio.
Currently, PUMA delivers two packages:
The Unit Converter is a Pascal unit that provides functions for parsing quantitative instrumentation readings consisting of measurement values and units, as they are required e.g. in clinical chemistry. It also supports conversion of measurements from one unit to another one, e.g. to deliver results of laboratory investigations in different physical formats.
The HL7 Engine is a collection of Pascal units that provide functions for parsing and compiling HL7 messages. Additionally, it supports reading and writing messages as files or streams. HL7 is a global standard for exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information. It is increasingly used in hospital information systems and public health administration.
Both packages come with test cases for FPC Unit. The HL7 engine also contains a demo application in form of a fully functional HL7 message browser.
Reusable sourcecode and documentation are available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/puma-repository/ orhttp://developer.berlios.de/projects/puma-repository/.
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-- Dr. Johannes W. Dietrich, M.D.
-- Laboratory XU44, Endocrine Research
-- Medical Hospital I, Bergmannsheil University Hospitals -- Ruhr University of Bochum
-- Buerkle-de-la-Camp-Platz 1, D-44789 Bochum, NRW, Germany -- Phone: +49:234:302-6400, Fax: +49:234:302-6403
-- eMail: ""
-- WWW: http://medical-cybernetics.de
-- WWW: http://www.bergmannsheil.de
-- Researcher ID: C-3498-2009
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