50 Successful Open Source Projects That Are Changing Medicine

[Jata (Parijata Mackey)]

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50 Successful Open Source Projects That Are Changing Medicine

February 19, 2009

Open source healthcare is forging forward quickly on the Internet.
But, fast developments often produce many failures. But, many
medicinal open source projects that have gained success development.
This success shows that open source alone is not the solitary factor
in development. Instead, look to great management, public relations,
marketing and a sound program that stands up under the scrutiny of a
growing number of peer users and, often, patients.

To limit this list to 50 projects means that we’ve tapped only the tip
of the mountain of open source projects available to the healthcare
industry. They encompass every subject from ultrasound technician
education to national health care database privacy. The following list
is categorized alphabetically, and each link under every category is
arranged alphabetically as well. We use this methodology to show that
we do not favor one resource over another.
Ambulatory Care

1. ClearHealth: Medical software designed by clinics and hospitals
and powered by Open Source software. ClearHealth includes modules for
document storage, customizable reporting/forms, lab results and
prescription management.
2. EGADSS: EGADSS is an open source tool that is designed to work
in conjunction with primary care Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
systems to provide patient specific point of care reminders in order
to aid physicians provide high quality care.
3. GNUmed: Use this free/open source software, released under the
GNU Public license to andle your patient’s records.
4. IndivoHealth: Indivo is a personally controlled health record
system that enables patients to own complete, secure copies of their
medical records.
5. OpenEHR: In the clinical space, it is about creating high-
quality, re-usable clinical models of content and process – known as
archetypes – along with formal interfaces to terminology. OpenEHR
could take you there.
6. OpenEMR: OpenEMR is a free medical practice management,
electronic medical records, prescription writing, and medical billing
application.
7. OpenMRS: OpenMRS is a community-developed, open-source,
enterprise electronic medical record system framework.
8. Tolven: An opportunity to use electronic Clinician Health Record
(eCHR) and electronic Personal Health Record (ePHR) systems.
9. Ultimate EMR: Ultimate EMR was designed as a Commercial Open
Source application rich in features and that can be combined with many
other products and tools.
10. WorldVista EHR: WorldVistA EHR is an open source electronic
health record based on the highly acclaimed VistA system of the United
States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Collaboration

11. GNU Projects: The Free Software Foundation provides a variety of
free and open source software and publishes a list of various open
source licenses and comparative features.
12. Medsphere: Medsphere.org is a community gathering place where
healthcare administrators, clinicians, developers and enthusiasts can
interact, share, and collaborate.
13. Open Health: This Yahoo! Group focuses on discussion of FOSS
health I.T.-related topics.
14. Open Source Health Informatics Working Group: IMIA OSWG brings
together experts and interested individuals from a wide range of
health professions and with a range of interests in the potential
application of free/libre and open source solutions within their
domains of expertise.
15. OS-WG: The mission of the OS-WG (Open Source Working Group) is
to act as the primary conduit between the broader open source
community and AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association).
16. OSHCA: OSHCA’s membership comprises a community of people, civil
societies and professional bodies in health care and informatics
industries that promotes the Free/Open Source Software Concepts in
Health Care.

Integration

17. Gello: ANSI-accredited HL7 standard for creating computable,
unambiguous clinical queries.
18. i2b2: i2b2 (Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside)
is an NIH-funded National Center for Biomedical Computing based at
Partners HealthCare System. Their work is designed to facilitate the
design of targeted therapies for individual patients with diseases
having genetic origins.
19. IHE Open Source: This project holds an implementation of the
Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) profile as defined by IHE
(ihe.net).
20. Mirth: Mirth is an open source cross-platform HL7 interface
engine that has established itself as the baseline for healthcare
information exchange. Mirth allows messages to be filtered,
transformed, and routed based on user-defined rules.
21. Records for Living: OpenHealth services allow for a wide variety
of safe, secure reports and services to be delivered to consumers,
leveraging the power of their electronic medical records.

Imaging/Visualization

22. BrainStorm: BrainStorm is an integrated free Matlab toolkit
dedicated to Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and Electroencephalography
(EEG) data visualization and processing.
23. Medical Exploration Toolkit: Advanced two- and three-dimensional
visualizations with easy application building and efficient case
management.
24. MicroDicom: MicroDicom is application for primary processing and
preservation of medical images in DICOM format.
25. O3-RWS: O3-RWS is the Radiology Workstation of the Open Three
(O3) Consortium. O3-RWS is an Open Source, IHE based,
Internationalized, Modular and Portable Image Display.
26. SMIViewer: A free (soon to be open source) DICOM volume analyzer
for research/teaching on Windows.

Medical Practice Management Software

27. CARE2X: Care2x integrates data, functions and workflows in a
healthcare environment.
28. iHRIS Suite: Open source HRIS solutions, distributed under the
GPL, to supply health sector leaders and managers with the information
they need to assess HR problems, plan effective interventions and
evaluate those interventions.
29. MirrorMed: MirrorMed is a free and open source EHR and practice
management system written in PHP. This is a Web-based application that
is capable of running a healthcare practice.
30. OpenDental: Previously known as Free Dental, OpenDental is an
open source Practice Management Software licensed under the GNU
General Public License.
31. OpenTAPAS: Technology Assisted Practice Application Suite
(TAPAS) is a model to assist primary care physicians use technology in
a targeted manner in their practices. It is an open source (GPL 2.0)
collection of tools.

Online Publications

32. PLos Medicine: A peer-reviewed open-access journal published by
the Public Library of Science.
33. LinuxMedNews: This is your site for Linux, Free and Open Source
medical software news, and has been since March 2000.

Programs

34. Debian Med: The goal of Debian Med is a complete system for all
tasks in medical care which is built completely on free software.
35. Eclipse Open Healthcare Framework (OHF) Project: The project is
composed of extensible frameworks and tools which emphasize the use of
existing and emerging standards in order to encourage interoperable
open source infrastructure, thereby lowering integration barriers in
healthcare informatics technology.
36. NHS: A UK NHS Interface (CUI), program guidance and product
library available to NHS users and service providers using N3.
37. ODIN: ODIN is a C++ software framework to develop, simulate and
run magnetic resonance sequences on different platforms.
38. Open Three (O3) Consortium: An innovative open-source project
dealing with the multi-centric integration of hospitals, RHIOs and
citizen (care at home and on the move, and ambient assisted living),
based on the about 60 HECE bilateral cooperation Agreements with
healthcare facilities. Use their imaging, collaboration and other
software.
39. OpenGalen: Their goal is to promote healthcare through
stimulating the use and development of GALEN experience and technology
as a basis for teaching, training and services in the area of medical
terminology, language, knowledge and information and in anything
directly or indirectly related in the widest sense.

Public Health and Biosurvellance

40. EpiSPIDER: This experimental map is generated from news reports
from both expert-curated and general news sources on epidemics.
41. Influism: To be used for pandemic preparedness planning by
health care offices, this download computes the effect of
interventions like antiviral treatment of cases and social distancing.
42. OpenEMed: Biosurveillance and clinical data repository based on
Web services and modules. Offers solid interoperability and federation
of clinical data.
43. RODS: “Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance” (RODS) is an
open-source public health surveillance software.
44. Sispread: This open source tool was created to help people
concerned by public health to easily perform epidemic simulations and
to analyze their results.

Software

45. ATP III Cholesterol Management: This interactive guideline tool
will assist the clinician in implementing the ATP III Cholesterol
Guidelines at the point of care on a Palm OS.
46. BMI Calculator : This calculator runs on any device running the
Palm Operating System (Palm OS) and PocketPC 2003.
47. Heart Attack Signs: This Palm OS program provides physicians and
other health care providers talking points for discussing heart attack
warning signs and survival steps with patients.
48. IPath : iPath is an open source platform for telemedicine
applications such as consultations, case discussions, virtual staff
meetings and more.
49. MedMapper: Medical decision making algorithm tool. Visual design
tool generates Tcl/Tk code. Non-programmers can design interactive
algorithms. Generates notes for inclusion in medical record.
50. Zephyropen : Open source SDK for health monitoring devices and
downloads for OSX, PC and cell phones.