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Non Government Organization (NGO)

Non-government organizations (NGO) are usually non-profit charitable organizations or foundations supporting open source and health IT projects and activities.

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American Public Health Association (APHA)

http://www.apha.org/

The American Public Health Association is the oldest and most diverse organization of public health professionals in the world and has been working to improve public health since 1872. The Association aims to protect all Americans, their families and their communities from preventable, serious health threats.

American Telemedicine Association

http://www.americantelemed.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) is the leading international resource and advocate promoting the use of advanced remote medical technologies. ATA and its diverse membership, works to fully integrate telemedicine into transformed healthcare systems to improve quality, equity and affordability of healthcare throughout the world.

AMIA Nursing Informatics WG

http://www.amia.org/programs/working-groups/nursing-informatics

The AMIA Nursing Informatics Working Group is focused on the "science and practice that integrates nursing, its information and knowledge, with management of information and communication technologies to promote the health of people, families, and communities worldwide."

Apache Software Foundation

http://www.apache.org/foundation/

The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for a broad range of open source software projects. The Foundation provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that simultaneously limits contributors potential legal exposure. Read More »

Association for Open Group Enterprise Architects (AOGEA)

https://chapters.globalaea.org/dc/

Association for Open Group Enterprise Architects (AOGEA) is a professional association committed to advancing the enterprise architecture profession and professional excellence.

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)

http://www.astho.org/

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) is the national non-profit organization representing public health agencies in the U.S., its Territories, the District of Columbia., and over 100,000 public health professionals. ASTHO members help formulate and influence sound public health policy and ensure excellence in state-based public health practice. Read More »

Benetech

http://benetech.org/

In 1989, Benetech was born with a business model intended to keep costs low for users, and the organization quickly became the largest maker of affordable reading systems for the blind. In 2000, Jim Fruchterman decided to sell the reading machine product line to a for-profit company and reinvest the money from the sale to expand Benetech to new frontiers of social good. Read More »

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/global-health/Pages/overview.aspx

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Health Program harnesses advances in science and technology to save lives in poor countries.  They focus on the health problems that have a major impact in developing countries but get too little attention and funding. Read More »

Bioconductor

Bioconductor is an open source, open development software organization and project that provides tools for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data. It is based primarily on the R programming language. Read More »

Homepage: 
http://www.bioconductor.org/

Bioinformatics Organization

http://www.bioinformatics.org/

The Bioinformatics Organization serves the scientific and educational needs of bioinformatic practitioners and the general public. They develop and maintain computational resources to facilitate world-wide communications and collaborations between people of all educational and professional levels. Read More »

Broad Institute

http://www.broadinstitute.org//scientific-community/software

Scientists at the Broad Institute and its associated collaborative community have developed many critical software tools for the analysis of increasingly large genome-related datasets, and they make these tools openly available to the scientific community. Tools include genomic information portals, tool suites, visualization tools, genetic analysis, sequence analysis, and more.

 

California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF)

http://www.chcf.org

California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) is a non-profit philanthropic organization based in Oakland, California.  They  support ideas and innovations that improve quality, increase efficiency, and lower the costs of care. CHCF regularly conducts research and commissions surveys and reports on emerging information technology trends and related policy and regulatory issues. Read More »

Campaign for NHS VistA

The Campaign for NHS VistA is composed of a group of volunteers working to promote the use of the VistA electronic health record (EHR) system by the National Health Service (NHS) in England. They  volunteer their time and expertise to campaign for the NHS to use the VistA system for the benefit of patients. Read More »

Homepage: 
http://nhsvista.net/

Canada Health Infoway

https://www.infoway-inforoute.com/index.php

Canada Health Infoway is an independent not-for-profit corporation created by Canada’s First Ministers in 2001, and funded by the Government of Canada. They co-invests with the provinces and territories to fund and monitor projects that form the network of electronic health information systems in Canada. Read More »

Canadian Nursing Informatics Association (CNIA)

http://www.cnia.ca/

The Canadian Nursing Informatics Association (CNIA) exists to help nurses across Canada to learn, share, research, and create informatics-related projects and experiences that can help to boost the competencies, theory, and practice of informatics on a national level. The mission of the CNIA is to be the primary Voice for Health Informatics in Canada.