Wide Open Future

Earlier this spring, David Riley and Vanessa Manchester, two leaders of the Federal Health Architecture’s open source CONNECT data exchange initiative, announced the formation of the nonprofit Alembic Foundation.

In addition to continuing to develop its flagship project, Aurion, which builds on and upgrades CONNECT's open standards to promote health IT interoperability, Alembic's mandate is to serve as a neutral player to help spark collaboration among "industry, the public and government."

And crucial to that goal, Alembic officials say, is the use of "open processes in open communities to create open technologies that are contributed to the public commons."