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> The easiest way to get MyGNUHealth is by installing the package from your favorite operating system / distribution. Many operating system distributions already ship MyGNUHealth.

I was actually curious to try this out on my phone, since they claim to support mobile devices.

If running a command-line package manager is the easiest way to install this on Android, I don't want to know what harder ways exist.

I find this is quite typical for open source projects. The community still hasn't really, truly adopted mobile. I guess it's because of the need to have some sort of entity be present in the various App Stores? But if it's possible for servers, why is this so rare to have open source projects as app store vendors?

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> I guess it's because of the need to have some sort of entity be present in the various App Stores?

This, and the fees, and dealing with weird App stores' rules. On Android, we had F-Droid - an alternative store where one didn't need to deal with this. And as has been reported recently, Google is making changes that will essentially kill F-Droid.

The reason there's not much good open source stuff on phones compared to PCs is because the hardware is hostile to it. The few phones out there that aren't are the ones almost no one uses.

This is meant to be used in hospitals. Where I live no hospital personal uses phones to manage healthcare data. They have PCs.

MyGNU Health looks to be along the lines of Apple Health and is intended to be used by consumers to monitor vitals and track statistics.

It makes sense to own your own medical data rather than handing it over to big tech/FAANG.

Also to manage it on a device that is not owned by big tech/FAANG

I’d never put my health data on an iPhone or Googlized phone.

You seem to be living in the past. While EHRs are still primarily used from desktop PCs, all of the major ones have native mobile apps now. Clinicians appreciate being able to review patient charts and action alerts while away from a PC cart.

Better to make it a web app, so you don't have to mess with Apple or Google's broken economics.

You're really missing the point. The EHR vendors aren't charging customers for those apps through the Apple or Google app stores so "broken economics" are irrelevant. The app stores are only a distribution mechanism and work fine for that.

I am happy to live in a country that values data safety for critical patient data.

And this would be a white-label Epic MyChart for the particular system with embedding for the inpatient or customer facing connections that should be used

It seems like that could be done with a system shipping their own white-labeled GNU Health app through the App Store

why would you run a set of software meant for medical providers (hospitals, clinics, etc) on your phone?

Did you read the article?

> MyGNUHealth is the GNUHealth Personal Health Record application for desktop and mobile devices

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