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'''HOSxP''' is a [[hospital information system]], including [[Electronic health record]] (EHR), in use in over 70 hospitals across Thailand. The software aims to ease the healthcare workflow of health centers, for small sanitariums to central [[hospital]]s.

Before becoming HOSxP, the software was called ''KSK-HDBMS''. Seeking a more friendly name, the development team opted for the name ''HOSxP'', which comes from ''Hospital'' and ''Experience''. The name also reflects the software's [[graphical user interface]], which mimic the theme of Windows XP, no matter what actually the underlying operating system.

Distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL), HOSxP is free software.

== History ==

The development started in 1999. Emerged from a solo project by Chaiyaporn Suratemekul, a [[pharmacist]] by training, now main developers of the software are staffs from Bangkok Medical Software Co., Ltd., a company lead by Chaiyaporn. The development infrastructure, including source code repository, is hosted by SourceForge.net.

== Architecture and technical information ==


HOSxP uses a [[client-server]] [[software architecture|architecture]]. For the [[database server]], it is claimed to run on many RDBMS, like MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Interbase/Firebird.

* Client-server (two-tier)
** a server software can run on either Linux or Microsoft Windows
** a client software can run only on Microsoft Windows
* Multi-tier technology (Borland DataSnap)
* Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)

Borland Delphi and its Linux counterpart Kylix are the integrated development environments of choice in the project.

A user is allowed to write [[scripting language|script]]s in the [[Pascal programming language]] to automate tasks in HOSxP.

== Awards ==

* [[Thailand ICT Award]] 2004 2nd Healthcare Application
* Thailand ICT Award 2005 1st Healthcare Application
* Thailand ICT Award 2005 Popular Award

== See also ==

* [[List of open source healthcare software]]

==References==

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== External links ==

* [http://hosxp.net/ Project home page]

[[Category:Free application software]]
[[Category:Health software]]
[[Category:Thai software]]



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