ANSHealth software downloads are 100% free under the
GNU GPL license for both development and deployment. If you feel you could contribute to enhance the healthcare industry's most full-featured free enterprise pharmacy solution, we urge you to
send a note to ANSHealth to take ownership of an open task, or simply just get involved with the
ePostRx community. You may also purchase
Professional Support, Documentation, Training and Consulting for these products from AdvanceNet Health Solutions, Inc.. If your use of ePostRx does not require a license, but you like ePostRx and want to encourage further development, you are certainly welcome to purchase a license or ePostRx support. If you use ePostRx in a commercial context such that your profit by its use, we ask that you further the development of ePostRx by purchasing some level of support. We feel if ePostRx helps your pharmacy business, it's reasonable to ask that you help ePostRx.
**Due to size, packages have been separated into source and documentation bundles**
NOTE: ePostRx is not
for the weekend developer or casual on-looker. General
pharmacy knowledge and enterprise application development knowledge is
required.
Skills in Java, J2EE stack, MSSSQL, JBOSS AS, Tomcat and JMS
(to name a few)
are essential. If you need installation assistance, we suggest purchasing
some form of commercial or incident support. Or check
out the
ePostRx General
forums for further assistance.
ePostRx Packages |
Release |
Description |
Date |
Size |
Notes |
Downloads |
Source |
Current
GPL Source |
3.06 |
 Contains all source code for building and running ePostRx. includes DB schema and scripts, Console, B2B and toolkit bundles.
JDK1.5+.Includes B2B and Console
binaries.
ftp site: ftp files162.cyberlynk.net |
March 2008 |
~124 MB |
Release Notes |
FTP Login
ftp files162.cyberlynk.net
User: newrelease
Pwd: newrelease
|
Documentation
and Support Jars (Also available at FTP
site) |
Java Doc |
3.05 |
Contains javadoc for source code tree |
March 2008 |
~10 MB |
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Download |
ANSHome |
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Contains example config.xml for B2B and Console. Also contains enterprise license.xml (which will be going away in the next GPL release) |
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~6 KB |
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Download |
Tomcat |
5.0 |
ePostRx has been tested with JBoss4.0.1/Tomcat 5.0/jdk1.5+on the windows platform. If you're having problems getting ePostRx up and running with other versions of JBoss/Tomcat, please download these ANSHealth versions. If you successfully get ePostRx running on other platforms or versions of JBoss/Tomcat, please share you're experiences with the community. |
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~16 MB |
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Download |
JBoss/Tomcat |
4.0.1 |
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~100 MB |
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Download |
If you encounter any problems downloading the bundles, please contact
ANSHealth download support.
IMPORTANT - Proprietary Vendor APIs
Although ePostRx is free and 100% GPL, there are a few vendor proprietary APIs and source code files(~10) that are not included in the final GPL software bundle. These files were intentionally omitted because of non-disclosure agreements currently enforced between ANSHealth and third party vendors who would not allow ANSHealth to bundle their associated code. These areas include:
- Drug Database Interface (Medispan, First Databank...)
- Interactive Voice Recognition (Telemanager,Ateb,Voice Tech...)
- Auto Fulfillment (McKesson,ScriptPro,ProRata,AutoMed...)
If you wish to gain access to these files, you will need to purchase a
commercial license so ANSHealth can enforce these agreements. However, ANSHealth would suggest that the community pressure those company's mentioned above to release their APIs/specifications to the ePostRx community for future GPL releases. ANSHealth believes most of these APIs or specifications are just conduits to their actual Intellectual Property (data or hardware) and should be made available to the community. For example, it's not like we're asking them to make available the Drug Database data or specifications on the IVR or fulfillment hardware, just the APIs to access it!
Most of the support jars are included in the software bundle and are available for free and licensed under various Open Source licenses (GNU GPL, LGPL, Apache, BSD etc..). With exception to those proprietary vendors listed above, the other jars you will need to download to build ePostRx are the following:
- Swiss Sql One API
- Quartz Scheduler
- XFire(SOA)
- IBATIS(DAO)
What is ANSHealth's position on Software Patents?
ANSHealth has consistently taken the position that software patents generally impede innovation in software development and that software patents are inconsistent with open source/free software. At the same time, we are forced to live in the world as it is, and that world currently permits software patents. A relatively small number of very large companies have amassed large numbers of software patents. One defense against such misuse is to develop a corresponding portfolio of software patents for defensive purposes. Many software companies, both open source and proprietary, pursue this strategy. In the interests of our company and in an attempt to protect and promote the open source community, ANSHealth has elected to adopt this same stance. We do so reluctantly because of the perceived inconsistency with our stance against software patents; however, prudence dictates this position.
