Open Source: Health IT Software

Open Source: Health IT Software - This category includes selected 'open source' and 'public domain' health IT software products from around the world specifically designed to meet particular needs of the health care community.

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TriSano

TriSano is a highly configurable and comprehensive public health data application. It allows local, state, federal and international agencies to identify, investigate and mitigate communicable and chronic diseases, environmental hazards, and bioterrorism events. Read More »

UK's Leeds City Council and Ripple Award Part of Open Source Health IT Project to Lockheed Martin

Press Release | Leeds City Council, Ripple | June 13, 2016

Leeds City Council and Ripple have chosen Lockheed Martin to help deliver aspects of the open source IT development to build an integrated digital care record platform. Ripple has a vision to create an open source health and care platform that allows frontline staff access to the most up to date and joined up care information about an individual – driving better and safer care.

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USA.GOV Mobile Apps

The U.S. government has an online app store offering a wide range of free mobile apps that are in the public domain. These include mobile health apps that can be found at USA.Gov Mobile Apps

Using Data to Bridge Gaps in the Humanitarian Sector

Nathaniel Manning | Devex | June 14, 2016

In humanitarian crisis response, we often don’t focus enough of our efforts on assessing needs and asking questions. In the wake of disaster, we instead get tunnel vision focused on delivering services as quickly and to as many people as possible. To help break that pattern, the relief industry has recently become fascinated with data. But we need to ask ourselves what data is truly helpful, actually useful, really helps us improve our impact, and better aids our beneficiaries. We often get excited about uncovering gems in big data archives. But the reality is that the most important and useful data is the real time feedback from those we serve...

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VA Blue Button

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) developed the Blue Button in collaboration with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the Department of Defense, along with the Markle Foundation's Consumer Engagement Workgroup. VA’s Blue Button became operational and  was made nationally available in October 2010. Read More »

VA Informatics and Computing Infrastructure (VINCI)

The VA Informatics and Computing Infrastructure (VINCI) is a secure computing environment for VA researchers. VINCI provides a virtual computing workspace and analytic tools for researcher use. VINCI allows users to select software from many commercial, government, open-source, and custom analytic tools, including SAS/Grid, SQL, and R for use in the workspace. Read More »

Vaccine Management System (VACMAN)

Vaccine Management System (VACMAN) is a database management system (DBMS) used by federal, state, city, and territorial government Immunization Programs. Only programs or projects designated by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) are eligible to use VACMAN. VACMAN is a public domain system used to order, track and record information relating to publicly funded vaccines.

Vision2

Vision2 is an open source tool for ophthalmologists and other vision testing professionals. It's useful for a variety of ophthalmology testing applications related to stereo vision. It implements many of classical tests but also new types of vectographic and random dot exams.

VistA

Veterans Health Information Systems & Technology Architecture (VistA) - This is a comprehensive electronic health record (EMR) and practice management system system originally developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The software is in the public domain and is installed in several thousand public and private hospitals and clinics around the world and supported by a number of public organizations and health IT corporations.

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VistA Imaging

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) VistA Imaging system facilitates medical decision-making by delivering complete multimedia patient information to the clinician’s desktop in an integrated manner. Read More »

VistA Nursing System

VistA Nursing System
The Nursing application is just one of the many modules of the open source or public domain Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) VistA health information system. Nursing is comprised of multiple components - i.e., Administration, Education, Clinical Care, and Quality Assurance. In general, the Nursing system can be used to: Read More »

VistA-Edge Practice Management System

The VistA-Edge PMS provides an easy to use GUI with rich features for Patient Registration, Schedules, Paper and Electronic Claims using both 4010 and 5010 HIPAA messages. All patient registrations and schedules are sent automatically to VistA using the Mirth HL7 engine. All billing related information including CPT and ICD codes are also sent as HL7 messages by VistA to the PMS. The VistA-EdgeTM PMS uses J2SE (Swing) based front end and a MySQL Database.

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Visualization ToolKit (VTK)

Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization. VTK has an extensive information visualization framework, has a suite of 3D interaction widgets, supports parallel processing, and integrates with various databases on GUI toolkits such as Qt and Tk. Read More »

vxVistA

vxVistA is an open source version of the public domain VistA electronic health record (EHR) system developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). It  has been modified and enhanced by DSS, Inc. to work in non-VA healthcare delivery settings.

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WebEMS

WebEMS is an open source web-based suite of tools used to facilitate emergency medical services (EMS). It supports the entire Ambulance Services Pipeline with modules that include dispatch, crew scheduling, mobile field data collection, billing, administration, and reporting. Read More »