Summary

A Debian Pure Blend is a Debian internal project which assembles a set of packages that might help users to solve certain tasks of their work. The list on the right shows the tasks of Debian Med.

Tasks page

This is a list of the Tasks Debian Med is made of:

Biology - Debian Med micro-biology packages: This metapackage will install Debian packages related to molecular biology, structural biology and bioinformatics for use in life sciences.
Biology development - Debian Med packages for development of micro-biology applications: This metapackage will install Debian packages which might be helpful for development of applications for micro-biological research.
Content management - Debian Med content management systems: This metapackage will install packages which are useful to build a content management system for medical care.
Medical data - Debian Med suggestions for medical databases: Currently Debian Med does not yet contain any medical data like drug databases. We just provide a list of Free Software that might be used and which might be included into Debian at a later point in time provided somebody is willing to take over the packaging work.
Epidemiology - Debian Med epidemiology related packages: This metapackage will install tools that are useful in epidemiological research. Several packages making use of the GNU R data language for statistical investigation. It might be a good idea to read the paper "A short introduction to R for Epidemiology" at http://staff.pubhealth.ku.dk/%7Ebxc/Epi/R-intro.pdf
Hospital information systems - Debian Med suggestions for Hospital Information Systems: Currently Debian Med does not yet contain any software which can be regarded as Hospital Information System. There is some Free Software out there which might be interesting targets for inclusion into Debian and so we provide a list of these projects which might be included at a later point in time provided somebody is willing to take over the packaging work.
Imaging - Debian Med imaging packages: This metapackage will install Debian packages which might be useful in medical image processing.

It installs several packages supporting DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) which is the de-facto standard for medical image management. The standard defines data structures and services for the exchange of medical images and related information. The latest release has been published in 2008 and consists of 18 parts.

For more information, you can visit the NEMA homepage http://medical.nema.org/ .

The status of the official DICOM base standard plus all the supplements and correction items are summarized at David Clunie's webpage: http://www.dclunie.com/dicom-status/status.html where you'll find direct links to the most recent yearly edition ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/2008/ .
Imaging development - Debian Med packages for medical image development: This metapackage will install Debian packages which might be useful for developing applications for medical image processing.
Laboratory - Debian Med suggestions for medical laboratories: Currently Debian Med does not yet contain any software which is specifically intended to run a medical laboratory. We just provide a list of Free Software that might be used and which might be included into Debian at a later point in time provided somebody is willing to take over the packaging work.
Pharmacy - Debian Med packages for pharmaceutical research: This metapackage contains dependencies for a collection of software and documentation which is useful for pharmaceutical research.
Physics - Debian Med packages for medical physicists: This metapackage contains dependencies for a collection of software and documentation which is useful for medical physicists in radiation oncology, diagnostics imaging and related fields.
Practice - Debian Med packages for practice management: This metapackage contains dependencies for a collection of software which might be helpful for practitioners to manage their practice.
Psychology - Debian Med packages for psychology: This metapackage contains dependencies for a collection of software which might be helpful for psychological research.
Statistics - Debian Med statistics: This metapackage will install packages which are helpful to do statistics with a special focus on tasks in medical care.
Tools - Debian Med several tools: This metapackage will install tools for several purposes in health care. Currently it contains some simple programs for Personal Health.
Typesetting - Debian Med support for typesetting and publishing: This metapackage will install Debian packages that might be helpful for typesetting and publishing in medical care and structural biology.