OSS projects in health

3D Slicer

http://www.slicer.org/

The 3D Slicer is freely available, open-source software for visualization, registration, segmentation, and quantification of medical data.

ApothecaryRx

http://www.psnw.com/~alcald/apothecary.html

ApothecaryRx is a drug database for looking up information on medications used in primary care. You can look up a drug by certain matching criteria such as trade name, generic name, therapeutic class, or by names of drugs with which it may interact. Plans are to expand it so you can enter a list of drug names and have the program run a check for interactions against the entire list.

CRISNET

http://www.crisnet.be

CRISNET is a Primary Care research organisation dedicated to medical information exchange and gathering through web based secure Open Source technology. CRISNET is currently developing a web based interface between Primary and Secondary care.

DOSIS/GP

http://www.imagineers.nl/DOSIS/

DOSIS/GP is an acronym for Dutch Open Source Information Systems for use by General Practitioners. It is part of the OpenKaart initiative.

e-TALC Electronic Teaching-aids At Low Cost

http://www.e-talc.org/

e-TALC is a project of Teaching-aids At Low Cost (TALC) which aims to bridge the digital divide in health by disseminating up-to-date, high quality health information to health workers in developing countries. TALC was set up in 1965 with the aim of breaking the cycle of poverty and ill-health in the developing world by advancing medical knowledge and education through provision of low-cost educational materials. Since its inception, over 12 million books, slides and accessories have been distributed to thousands of health workers throughout the developing world. Health professionals in developed countries get access to online resources but still have many difficulties in accessing the web due to poor infrastructure and connectivity costs. The effect of this 'digital divide' reinforces the disparity between health care provision in the developed and developing world.

MedSource

http://www.medsource.com/index.html

MedSource is an evolving resource to support the smart implementation of Open Source software in health care. Our quest is to support solutions and sharing that significantly lower the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Web-enabled and other software platforms, applications, interfaces and software components for the health care industry.

OpenEMR

http://www.synitech.com

OpenEMR is a modular, HIPAA compliant, Open Source, cross-platform Electronic Medical Records system (EMRS) developed by Synitech Incorporated (www.synitech.com). It facilitates efficient office management through automated patient record journaling, and has been successfully integrated with third-party technologies including speech recognition, secure wireless access, touch screen portables, and biometric authentication. Interface screens are themable and optimized for consistency, simplicity, speed of access to patient information, and minimum eye strain. OpenEMR is based upon widely-used public standards to achieve maximum compatibility with evolving technologies.

OSCAR

http://oscarmcmaster.org/

OSCAR is a web based family practice system supporting the needs of care delivery, teaching, and research. OSCAR is based on more than 10 years of experience with the MUFFIN practice management system. OSCAR includes evidence based decision support tools for family practice.

Ovnibase

http://ovnibus.free.fr/

Ovnibase is a system to collect databases of patient data for clinical and research (evidence based medicine) purposes. The components are “Sane” for scanning input forms, PostgresQL for the database and apache/netscape for a browser interface.

OpenHealth

http://www.openhealth.org/XChart/

The Open Healthcare Group’s XChart Project is a movement to create an electronic medical record that is easier than paper. XChart is a system designed to combine the ease, speed and portability of paper systems with the efficiencies of computerized records. XChart is browsable via the web with minimal training. XChart supports standards.

Protégé

http://protege.stanford.edu/overview/index.html

Protégé is a free, open-source platform that provides a growing user community with a suite of tools to construct domain models and knowledge-based applications with ontologies. At its core, Protégé implements a rich set of knowledge-modeling structures and actions that support the creation, visualization, and manipulation of ontologies in various representation formats. Protégé can be customized to provide domain-friendly support for creating knowledge models and entering data. Further, Protégé can be extended by way of a plug-in architecture and a Java-based Application Programming Interface (API) for building knowledge-based tools and applications.

An ontology describes the concepts and relationships that are important in a particular domain, providing a vocabulary for that domain as well as a computerized specification of the meaning of terms used in the vocabulary. Ontologies range from taxonomies and classifications, database schemas, to fully axiomatized theories. In recent years, ontologies have been adopted in many business and scientific communities as a way to share, reuse and process domain knowledge. Ontologies are now central to many applications such as scientific knowledge portals, information management and integration systems, electronic commerce, and semantic web services.

Res Medicinae – Information in Medicine

http://www.resmedicinae.org

Res Medicinae is a software solution for use in medicine which combines intuitive ease of use with great flexibility, reached through CYBOP technology. It adheres to common standards for medical software, wherever useful, and is open to other systems. Using the CYBOL language, users are enabled to modify applications. Res Medicinae is also an attempt to overcome high pricing in medical information systems and to provide free, stable, secure, platform-independent systems. Res Medicinae is free in every respect; members are encouraged by the idea of sharing their knowledge with people living on the poorer side of the world.

SQL Clinic

http://www.sqlclinic.net

Description: A web interface to postgres written in perl. This is a complete clinical and administrative application for providers of psychiatric housing, although the software is designed to accomodate an entire Community Mental Health Care Center (CMHC) or private practitioners (both Clinical Social Workers and Psychiatrists) working in Behavioural Health. The source is available under the terms of the GPL. Technical support is free via mailing lists. Support contracts are available from Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers of New York.

US Food and Drug Administration National Drug Code

http://www.fda.gov/cder/ndc/index.htm

The NDC System was originally established as an essential part of an out-of-hospital drug reimbursement program under Medicare. The NDC serves as a universal product identifier for human drugs. The current edition of the National Drug Code Directory is limited to prescription drugs and a few selected OTC products. The data is updated quarterly within 5 working days after the end of March, June, September, and December.