HOMPATH Software – a review

Dr Fahmida M

One of the most widely used homoeopathic softwares throughout the world.

Hompath provides world class software tools and apps for all levels of homoeopaths, from students, practioners, researchers, teachers & homoeopathy institutions and colleges.

Founder Jawahar J Shah

Developed in India- Mind Technologies

Created this software to forecasting the scope of computer softwares in the field of homoeopathy, especially repertory, to provide a better human care & the development of world of homoeopathy.

The software is a complete A-Z solution for every homeopath

Available in English,Spanish,german,Portuguese,French languages

Hompath has seen 14 major releases within a period of more than 30 years

Hompath also developed Hompath LAN, Integration with Multi-Clinic Management system (MCMS), Integrated Hospital Management System (IHMS) and 7 unique homoeopathy mobile apps for Android and iOS.

Different versions of Hompath:

• Hompath DOS – 1986
• Hompath Win – 1995
• Hompath Explorer – 1996
• Hompath Ozone – 1997
• Hompath Classic 7.0 – 1998
• Hompath Classic 8.0 – 2001
• Hompath M.D – 2005
• Hompath Vital – 2007
• Hompath Hindi – 2008
• Hompath German – 2009
• Hompath WildFire – 2011
• Firefly Mobile App – 2015
• Hompath Zomeo – 2016
• Zomeo Mobile App – 2016

NEWER VERSIONS OF HOMPATH WITH FURTHER UPDATES

• WildFire
• Purple Rock
• EcoTeak
• IceBreaker
• NeoMetal
• FireFly

HOMPATH ZOMEO

A software specially designed for with deeper commitment towards Practice, Research and Thesis

• 44 repertories with Latest Complete Repertory 2020 by Roger Van Zandvoort
• {Homeopathic Clinical Repertory 3.0 & Nature’s Materia Medica by Robin Murphy}
• 136 Homeopathic Materia Medica Books
• 1300+ volumes of homeopathic books
• Complete Information of 3200+ homeopathic remedies
• 16 Journal variants with 8700+ Articles.
• 10 million Symptoms
• Built in Acute Expert System by Dr Praful Vijayakar
• Built in Tempraz, Element Theory& Seigal Expert System
• 636 Clinical Tips
• 3251 Remedy Properties and 803 Remedy Relationships
• 636 Clinical tips verified in 1000’s of cases
• 615 Patient instructions for 70+ disease conditions
• 8000+ Cured Cases from well-experienced doctors
• 1561 Keynotes of homeopathic medicines
• 72 Diet and nutrition tips
• Select right potency for your patient
• 462 NEW books in the MM and library – including Robin Murphy’s Nature’s Materia Medica, Soul of Remedies by Dr. Rajan Sankaran, Elements of Homeopathy, Minerals of Homeopathy and Secret Lanthanides by Jan Scholten and others
• Latest books from various schools of thoughts – ICR (M. L. Dhawale Memorial Trust), Dr. Prafull Vijayakar’s Predictive Homoeopathy, Dr. Parinaz Humranwala’s Temperament Method (Tempraz), Sehgal Brothers’ ROH series books, etc.
• Simplified Repertory and MM search – just like web search engines
• Search as you type using Live Search
• Quick connectivity of remedy to its cases, Materia Medica and clinical tips – through Strategic Tools
• Source and Author information of each remedy in Complete repertory

1. WORKING METHOD
2. PATIENT
3. REPERTORY
4. MATERIA MEDICA
5. EXPERT SYSTEM
6. LIBRARY
7. UTILITY
8. PHYSICIAN
9. SETTINGS
10. PATIENT MANAGEMENT

This module helps you to record and preserve all vital information related

to the patient

To enter new patient: -From the menu, select

‘Patient’ module and then select ‘New Patient’

This module helps you to store the preliminary data of a patient who consults you for the first

time. A registration form is displayed before you to record the basic details of registration such

as Date of visit, Time of visit, Patient’s Name,

Gender, etc.

In Preliminary Information, Patient’s

Occupation, Religion, Marital Status, Insurance details, etc. can be recorded.

Contact details of the patient can also be stored in their respective screens.

A Patient Card for the new patient can be created as a Patient ID card which contains certain basic information about the preliminaries of the patient.

Patient list displays a list of all the saved patient details. Click on the desired

patient, from this list to access all the details of the selected patient.

FOLLOW UP

• This feature allows you to view and record the follow-up details of all patients.
• Select a patient for viewing or recording the follow-up of a particular patient.
• It shows various follow-up details in a list such as Date of visit, Complaints, Remedy given, Remedy Type, Potency, Repetition, Dosage, Remedy Response, etc.
• Examination findings and investigation details can be recorded by clicking on ‘Examination’ and ‘Investigation’ buttons
• Prescribed drug can be studied and verified by clicking on ‘Remedy Properties’.
• ‘Potency Selector’ helps to decide the potency of a patient with the help of  parameters such as Age, Occupation, Sensitivity, Mental State, Generals of the  patient, etc.
• You can add any media to a particular follow-up by clicking on ‘Add Media’.

LIST OF REPERTORIES  -44

1. Complete Repertory 2023 – Roger van Zandvoort
2. Repertory of Homoeopathic Materia Medica – James Tyler Kent
3. Perfect repertory of mind – Dr Yogesh Sehgal
4. Q Rep-Repertory of Mental Qualities (Available only in Jeremy Sherr Pack of Zomeo – Additional Purchase) – Jeremy Yaakov Sherr
5. Covid-19 repertory-  Hompath (available only in covid 19 pack of Zomeo ultimate –Additional Purchase)
6. Index to Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica – T. F. Allen.
7. Boenninghausen’s Characteristics and Repertory – C. M. Boger
8. Repertory to Homoeopathic Materia Medica – G. W. Boericke
9. Synoptic key of the material medica – C. M. Boger
10. Clinical Repertory to the Dictionary of Materia Medica – J. H. Clarke
11. Repertory to the Symptoms of Intermittent Fever – W. A. Allen
12. Concordance Repertory of Materia Medica – W. D. Gentry
13. Repertory of Hering’s Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica – C. B. Knerr
14. Repertory to the More Characteristic Symptoms – C. Lippe
15. Concise Repertory of Homoeopathic Medicines – S. R. Phatak.
16. Sensations As If, A Repertory of Subjective Symptoms – H. A. Roberts
17. Repertory of the Elements- Jan Scholten
18. Veterinary Repertory- Dr Surjit Singh
19. Repertory of AIDS – Ajit Kulkarni
20. Repertory of Diabetes – Ajit Kulkarni
21. Repertory on Hypertension – Ajit Kulkarni
22. Thyroid Repertory – Ajit Kulkarni
23. Repertory on Trauma – Ajit Kulkarni
24. Repertory of Concomitant Symptoms – R. L. Khullar
25. Homoeopathic Clinical Repertory with Miasms and Thermal Conditions – R. L. Khullar
26. Asthma Repertory – Jawahar J. Shah
27. Repertory of Bach Flower Remedies – Jawahar J. Shah
28. Bio-Chemic – Hompath
29. Constipation – Hompath
30. Dentition Repertory – Geeta Punjabi
31. Homoeopathic Therapeutics of Diarrhoea – James Bell
32. Repertory of Eye – A. B. Norton
33. Repertory of Nails – Jawahar J. Shah
34. Repertory of Obesity – Jawahar J. Shah
35. Repertory of Haemorrhoids – W. J. Guernsey
36. Pneumonias – D. M. Borland
37. Spasms – Hompath
38. Repertory of Suppressions – Geeta Punjabi
39. Repertory of Vaccination – Geeta Punjabi
40. Rare Collection with Rare Remedies – Balbir Singh
41. Experience Zone Repertory – Prabhakar Shetty
42. Quick Therapeutics – Sunil Verma
43. Therapeutic Pocket Book – Clemens von Boenninghausen
44. Unabridged Dictionary of Sensations – J.W. Ward

REPERTORISATION

• CLASSIC VIEW
• BOOK VIEW
• QUICK REP
• REPERTORIAL TOTALITY

Patient Management System:

• Option to secure all the vital information of the patients. Complete case record, investigations, prescription, and follow-up.
• It also includes an ‘appointment scheduler‘

Remedy Information:

• Includes complete information of more than 3200 homoeopathic medicines.
• Helps the physician to compare and confirm remedies from different homoeopathic Materia medica books.

Homoeopathic Materia Medica:

• Packed with 136 homoeopathic Materia medica books.

Quick Symptom Recording:

To record rubrics as patient narrates the complaints.

Compact Homoeopathic Library:

Provides therapeutics of more than 200 clinical conditions with clear differentiation of remedies.

Homoeopathic Clinical Tips:

636 systematically arranged clinical tips are available for acute and chronic diseases

Expert Systems:

1. Acute Expert System
2. Tempraz Expert System
3. Element Theory Expert System
4. Seigal Expert System

ACUTE EXPERT SYSTEM

• Prafull Vijayakar’s Acute Expert System
• Quick one liners for differentiation of 2 closely related remedies
• Cured cases of Dr. Vijayakar’s and his team
• Learn Art & Science of reaching genetic similimum and curing patients
• Link to Forum where you can share your cases with other members of the predictive homoeopathy community
• Assures results in all acute cases
• Helps you to arrive at the right remedy axis in acute conditions
• Allows Assessment of Thermal, Axis, Thirst, Cure, Remedy
• Genetic level case taking , analysis & prescribing
• Case taking Proforma including History taking – Chronic diseases
• Question bank – to be asked before prescription
• Case taking in pediatrics
• Ready reference of terminologies used by predictive school of homoeopathy
• Seven layers of suppression and its management
• Scientific explanations of golden rules, when to prescribe – when not
• Remedy relationship with helpful hints to manage cases

TEMPRAZ EXPERT SYSTEM

Expert system created by Dr. Parinaz Humranwala – Tempraz unveils to you the temperaments,Which is unique to an individual and therefore uncovers the real person and guides us to the correct remedy

Built-in Utilities:

• More than 600 patient’s instructions
• Diet and nutrition guidance
• Excellent information on both external and internal mother tinctures
• Preventive homoeopathic medicines.

ANALYSIS

• Kentian analysis
• Kent to Boenninghausen
• Boenninghaussen analysis
• Boenninghausen to Kent analysis
• Boger analysis

HOMPATH ON MOBILE

1. Access the vast database of repertories, materia medica, clinical books and therapeutics wherever you go.
2. Analyse, Repertorise, Prescribe wherever you go
3. Your Patients Anywhere & Anytime
4. Compatible with iOS(image) and android(image)

Hompath FireFly Mobile App: A complete homeopathic mobile app with 10 repertories and 107 latest books.

Zomeo Mobile App: A Advanced homeopathic mobile app with 33 Repertories with Complete Repertory 2016 repertories and 820+ books.

Veterinary Module

• Built in veterinary module to enhance your veterinary practice.Veterinary repertory by Dr Surjit Singh and 17 volume books by James Moore , John Rush,Ruddock E.H,Harndall etc

STUDENT ACADEMIC MODULE

Unique academic module for students with viva questions,question banks,clinical investigaations,MCQ,s etc

Unique Features Especially designed for P.G. Students

• Advanced Convert Repertory to Materia Medica
• Statistics of Materia Medica Search Results
• Remedy Study from Materia Medicae Search Results

THE  DOCTOR  24*7

• A web-based solution offering you the option to host a fully functional clinic online & treat your patients from any part of the world at any time.
• Multilingual case records gives the physician an opportunity to see and treat patients from across the globe
• The application provides online reference books and repertorization application, hence the homeopath need not buy expensive software or books.
• Incorporation of payment gateway thru any bank across globe
• Allowing patient to access the services from different time zones simultaneously.
• Automatic Online repertorization from 29 repertories
• Provision to upload & share investigation reports, photographs and media files

MERITS

• Reduction of prescription time.
• Getting better results.
• Confirming the symptoms of the patient and the remedies from the provings.
• Creating own repertories and lectures.
• Storing patient data and analysis of their cases.
• Organising their practice.

DEMERITS

As it is computer generated,we will get the output based on the input we are giving

Nothing will be stored in our memory.

REFERENCES

• ZOMEO ULTIMATE SOFTWARE
• Homeo “path” –A handbook for students teachers and professionals in homeopathy by Dr Mansoor Ali
• www.homeobook.com

Dr Fahmida M
PG Scholar, Homoeopathic Repertory and Case takinG
Govt Homoeopathic Medical College Calicut
Email : drfahmidarouf@gmail.com
Under the guidance of Dr Mansoor Ali KR