The following is a summary of the main new features included in GH 4.4 .

   Improve ergonomics on patient health condition model
   Menu for dental treatments
   Include synchronization with Orthanc server using Tryton scheduler
   Add age_str field to gnuhealth.patient.disease
   Refactor FHIR server
   Include surgery stock moves
   New packages health_surgery_protocols and health_stock_surgery
   Update documentation on existing modules
   Expand information and management of surgical protocols
   Support generate DICOM Modality Worklists
   Operating room scheduler
   QR Code bracelet / wristband in demographics. No need to enter the patient / clinical section to print the QR.
   pot template generator
   Support Stone Web Viewer and Osimis Web Viewer link.
   Add service_updated to health_services* packages
   Automatically create patient upon entering demographics
   Move samples/interfaces/* to script directory
   Add ICD-10 or ICD-11 parent to disease_categories
   Update functionality in Health Genetics packages
   Include ambulatory care reporting
   Support no-patient labtest
   Make age string returned by compute_age_from_dates function translatable.
   Add code field to GnuHealthTestCritearea and let lab interface script use it
   Write a example Interface with pandas.
 

Genomics and medical genetics package

A particular mention to the health_genetics packages because major work and significant improvements have been done for this version. 
I've spent quite a bit of time on this to be ready for this new release. I am confident GNU Health genetics functionality can be a valuable tool for genomics and medical genetics, both in research and clinical practice. 

The following is a summary of changes in health_genetics and health_genetics_uniprot packages: 

 

• Rename gnuhealth.disease.gene model to gnuhealth.gene
• Rename disease_genes xml data files to human_genes
• Update views and references in related modules
• Include hgnc_id
• The primary key is now the HGNC identifier
• Add symbol aliases
• Update gene type selection
• Include locus group and type
• Update Gene form and tree view
• Include name aliases, omim, ensembl and refseq accession ids to gnuhealth.gene model
• Gene related proteins are now managed in main health_genetics package
• Update and remove obsolete references of natural variants and phenotypes
• Use human genes datafiles for Genome Reference Consortium Human build 38 (grch38) and alternative loci
• Include xrefs, protein and keywords in genetic diseases
• Improve field descriptions
• Simplify protein-related views and terms
• Use Inheritance pattern
• Include MIM reference in protein diseases tree view
• Use xrefs in tree view to broaden search
• Update protein diseases datafile
• Update variants phenotypes datafile to v 2023_03_june28 from  Uniprot

Upgrading from GNU Health 4.2

The GNUHealth 4.4 will benefit from the stability of using Tryton 6.0! Still, at GH level there are significant changes on the data dictionary and kernel. 

As usual:  
 

• Make a FULL BACKUP your kernel, database and attach directories !!
• Follow the instructions in the manual / Wikibooks

Development focus

In addition of the GH HMIS server, we will focus the development in the following  areas of the GNU Health ecosystem: 

 

• The Documentation Portal: It's now a reality! Little by little we are integrating the information on https://docs.gnuhealth.org . We now have a dedicated server that will host the documentation for the GNUHealth ecosystem components. The docmentation portal is a read-only resource, focusing on stability and quality. Wikibooks will work as the great community wiki that has been helping us for over a decade. Wikibooks will also work for development discussion and host the latest screenshots at Wikimedia commons.
   
• MyGNUHealth: The GNU Health Personal Health Record app for desktop and mobile devices is now at 2.0 and on Kivy framework! We can now port it to different platforms (Android, MacOS, ..) using pretty much the same codebase.
   
• Thalamus and the Federation Portal. The GNU Health Federation integrates information from many health institutions and individuals from a region or country. The GH Federation portal will  allow to manage resources, as well as the main point for *analytics* and *reporting* of massive demographics and epidemiological data generated nationwide. People, health centers and research institutions will benefit from the GNU Health Federation and the GNU Health ecosystem in general.

As always, no matter how hard we try to avoid them, there will be bugs, so please test the new system, upgrade process, languages, and give us your feedback via them

The community server has been already migrated to 4.4.0, so you just need to download the GNU Health HMIS client.