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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Center for Connected Health

Founded in 1995, the Center for Connected Health develops new strategies to move health care from the hospital and doctor's office into the day-to-day lives of patients. Read More »

Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT)

Three leading HIT industry associations -  the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and The National Alliance for Health Information Technology (The Alliance) joined forces in July 2004 to launch CCHIT as a voluntary, private-sector organization to certify health IT products. Read More »

Civic Commons

A primary goal of Civic Commons is to make it easy for jurisdictions at all levels to deploy low-cost, reusable software, using open standards, open protocols, and open source code wherever possible. Read More »

CivicCRM

An open source Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) foundation, project, and software suite for the civic sector. CiviCRM is web-based, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups. Integration with both Drupal and Joomla! Read More »

Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC)

Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) is a global, open, multidisciplinary, non-profit organization that has established key standards to support the acquisition, exchange, submission and archive of clinical research data and metadata. Read More »

Cochrane Collaboration

The Cochrane Collaboration is an international network of more than 28,000 dedicated people from over 100 countries. They work together to help healthcare practitioners, policy-makers, patients, their advocates and carers, make well-informed decisions about health care. Read More »

Code For America

Code For America is all about helping to build better government - one that works by the people, for the people, in the 21st century 'Information Age'. Code For America engages citizens in building apps, sharing knowledge, working on software development projects, and conducting workshops. Learn more about many of their projects.

Code For Europe

Code for Europe strives to solve local civic challenges, by agile temporary teams of developers, in a way that the solutions are easily reuseable for other European cities. Open source developers have a free hand in creating a technical solution while working very closely with end-users, civil servants and a network of IT experts. Read More »

CommonWell Health Alliance

The CommonWell Health Alliance is an independent not-for-profit trade association organization open to all health information technology (IT) vendors devoted to the simple vision that a patient’s data should be available to patients and providers regardless of where care occurs. Read More »

Community Health Network of West Virginia (CHNWV)

The Community Health Network of West Virginia (CHNWV) is a member-driven network of not-for-profit health care centers that delivers primary health care and chronic disease management services to more than 120,000 West Virginians in nearly 80 locations. Read More »

Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine

The mission of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine is to advance the principles and practices of integrative healthcare within academic institutions. Their membership currently includes 56 highly esteemed academic medical centers and affiliate institutions.

Continua Health Alliance

The Continua Health Alliance is a non-profit, open industry organization of more than 240 health care and technology companies. The mission of the organization is to establish a system of interoperable personal telehealth solutions that fosters independence and empowers people and organizations to better manage health and wellness.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization chartered to design methods and technologies to facilitate sharing of scientific, creative, and other intellectual works with the general public. Read More »

Crowdsourcing.Org

Crowdsourcing.org is the leading industry resource offering the largest online repository of news,
articles, videos, and site information on the topic of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. Read More »

Dental Informatics Online

The Dental Informatics Online Community is a global web site designed to help you to find resources in the dental informatics and dental technology field from around the world. Funded by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), the site will also help you  connect to other people in the field of dentistry to share ideas, problems and research opportunities.