Release of Sendinel Version 0.2

Today we have released Sendinel 0.2. There are a few new features:

• You can now put patients on waiting lists for medicine
• Bluetooth has been added to the ways of communication
• Authentication can be switched on

Medicine Waiting Lists
We have added a new feature group, the waiting lists for medicine.

When the clinic is out of stock for a medicine and some patient should get it, the patient can be assigned to the waiting list. If the medicine arrives at the clinic, the clinic staff can send a message to all patients who are currently waiting for it.

Bluetooth
Up till now patients could be contacted using sms or phone calls. When it comes to appointment reminders however, you could also just use calendar entries to remind them. So from this release on you can also push calendar entries on the patients' mobile phones to remind them of their appointment. This option is an especially good extension to the other ways of communication, since it doesn't generate any costs at all.
If you do not want to use Bluetooth, it can be switched off via the settings.py.

Authentication
If you want to make sure, that the patients can really be reached under the telephone number they told you, you can switch on authentication. Then every time that the patients' phone number has to be entered, the patient is asked to authenticate the number. In order to do so, the patient has to ring the number of the SIM card that sticks in the UMTS-stick. If Sendinel recognizes an incoming call with the same number as told by the patient, the number is authenticated.
Sendinel does not answer the call of the patient, so this feature does not generate any costs for the patient.

The release can be found on the project page. You can check out the current version on our live demo system. Of course the user manual (html|pdf) and the installation instructions (html|pdf) are revised as well.

This release is the last release with new features from the bachelor project team in its current form. We hope however that Sendinel will continue to exist and be further developed by other people. It looks very good right now that this will happen.