Well, that's a good question. The fact is I thought Morphine is a fine name. Maybe because I have a cat called Morphine ? So the logo is just a picture of my cat. Nice, isn't she ?
The Medal Project is a project (developped by Quanta Healthcare Solutions, Inc). As stated in Medal FAQ : [Medal is] An effort to create software implementions of useful healthcare algorithms, include documentation and references, and make both easily available to all interested. This project is entirely self-funded. The Medal Project algorithms are provided as Miscrosoft Excel files, for the proper alhorithms, and PDF files for the details and explainations (especially, the references of each algorithm proposed) for each algorithm.
Morphine is in fact a kind of frontend for the Medal Project. Actually, Morphine is an attempt to provide all the Medal Project algorithms for the Sharp Zaurus (and probably Compaq/HP iPaq) PDA. But it goes a little further than what is provided through the spreadsheet documents. Thus, each algorithm must be converted to a special file format for Morphine (see next question). The converter is someway a part of Morphine.
Yes ! They are written in python and thus, it is easy to add your own algorithms. They are located in /opt/Qtopia/lib/morphine/pyalgos, and you can see the already available ones as examples. Please see the Morphine web site for details on how to write your algorithms.
La conscience est venue pourrir notre saine et sereine bestialité originelle... Mon combat est de la retrouver.- Ptiluc in "Geste de Gilles de Chin et du dragon de Mons"
