EmrForGps — Electronic Medical Assistant 3

Archived, unmaintained historical project. This repository is kept for provenance only. The actively developed successor is hmislk/hmis — an open source Java EE Hospital Information Management System.

Electronic Medical Assistant (EMA) version 3 was an Electronic Medical Record system for General Practitioners, written in Visual Basic 6 with a Microsoft Access backend. It covered consultations and clinical notes, diagnosis and prescription entry, investigation ordering, pharmacy stock and batch/expiry tracking, billing, deposits, day-end cash reconciliation and clinical reporting.

Originally authored by Dr. M H B Ariyaratne. The source was previously hosted on Bitbucket (bariyaratne/emrforgps) and has been migrated here so the history of the project is not lost.

Status

Archived and read-only. It will not build or run on modern toolchains without a Visual Basic 6 IDE/runtime and the 32-bit Microsoft Access (Jet/ACE) OLE DB provider, both long out of support. No issues, pull requests or support requests are accepted.

Layout

Path	Contents
EmrForGps.vbp	Main application VB6 project
Administrator.vbp	Administrator application VB6 project
*.frm / *.frx	Forms and their binary resources
*.bas	Modules — find, printing, reporting, security, photo, globals
*.cls	Class modules
DataEnvironment1.*	ADO data environment
EmrForGps.PDM	PowerDesigner data model
EMA3Help.chm	Compiled user help file
*.txt	Original development notes and release documentation

The application database (EMA3.mdb) is deliberately excluded from this repository: it may contain real patient data and must not be published.

Redactions

This archive is not a byte-for-byte copy of the original source. The following were removed before publication, and the history was rewritten so they appear in no commit:

• The hard-coded Microsoft Jet database password, which appeared in modStart.bas, frmSelectDatabase.frm and DataEnvironment1.dsx, and doubled as an admin credential for a web-hosted copy of the database. Replaced with REDACTED / XXXXXXX.
• Mr. Dharmapala.txt, which contained only an individual's name and mobile number.
• Two third-party staff mobile numbers in EMA 3 Fintec.txt.

The application database (EMA3.mdb) was never committed: it contains real patient data. Consequently this source will not connect to a database as-is.

Licence

Released under the MIT License — see LICENSE.

MIT was chosen as the most permissive licence that already existed when this software was written; the GNU Affero GPL v3 did not appear until November 2007.

The original demonstration notice that shipped with the software ("all copyrights reserved, you can't copy and distribute it") has been removed: it is superseded by the MIT License granted here by the copyright holder.