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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Hakeem Program

Hakeem is the first national e-Health initiative in Jordan. The program aims to facilitate and improve the healthcare services, by providing real time and up to date electronic medical information throughout the nation's public hospitals and clinics. Hakeem is being implemented based on the U.S. Read More »

HapMap Project

The International HapMap Project is a multi-country effort to identify and catalog genetic similarities and differences in human beings. Using the information in the HapMap, researchers will be able to find genes that affect health, disease, and individual responses to medications and environmental factors. The Project is a collaboration among scientists and funding agencies from Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Nigeria, and the U.S.  All of the information generated by the Project will be released into the public domain. Read More »

Hawaii and Open Health IT Solutions

Over the years, Hawaii has given rise to a number of individuals and organizations that have played a key role in collaboratively developing and implementing innovative ‘open’ health IT initiatives. I just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge them. Read More »

Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)

Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a free, online repository of high quality digital images and health education materials. Medical educators can discover, download, and re-use over 22,000 medical education resources that are in the public domain. Read More »

Health Information Exchange Open Source (HIEOS)

Health Information Exchange Open Source (HIEOS™) is an open source solution offering supported by General Dynamics. This open-architecture platform enables secure health information exchange between disparate health communities (e.g. HIE, RHIO), thereby enabling care providers to have longitudinal perspectives of patients' health records. Read More »

Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project (HCUP)

The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a growing family of health care databases and related software tools and products developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).  HCUP includes the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the U.S. Read More »

HealthCare.Gov

HealthCare.Gov is a U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) web site providing a wide range of health information and tools for use by consumers. Read More »

HealtheMe

HealtheMe is an open-source, customizable health and wellness management system developed and supported by KRM Associates Inc. While it may be integrated with an Electronic Health Record  (EHR), and supports the contribution of personal health information, its main application is as a care coordination tool. As a standards-based solution, it can be adapted easily into any number of use cases and expanded to support specific care plans and scenarios.

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Healthfinder.Gov

Healthfinder.gov is a government web site providing information and tools to help citizens stay healthy. This web site or information portal is a free service provided by the National Health Information Center of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) within the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS).

HealthMap

HealthMap was founded by a team of researchers, epidemiologists and software developers at Children's Hospital Boston founded in 2006. It is an established global leader in utilizing online informal sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats. Read More »

HealthTech

HealthClinics.com provides healthcare IT solutions that leverage the Internet, open source and emerging technology to deliver custom-tailored results throughout the healthcare industry. We are simplifying the way Patients & Healthcare Providers connect through our Patient Scheduling, electronic health record support based on OpenEMR & Patient Engagement services.

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Hospital OS

Hospital OS is an open source integrated Hospital Information System developed and widely used in Thailand.  This client/server software solution was developed by using Java. Hospital OS was designed and developed by Open Source Technology Co., Ltd., in 2001. They are a social entrepreneur and open source software development company located in Phuket, Thailand.

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Hospital Schedule

Hospital Schedule is a open source application tool for planning and scheduling of hospital employees that has been developed and deployed in Thailand.

HOSxP

HOSxP is a hospital information system, including an Electronic Health Record (EHR) module, that is in use in over 70 hospitals across Thailand. The software aims to ease the healthcare workflow from health centers, small sanatoriums, to larger hospitals. Distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL). Read More »

IGSTK

The Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK) is a high-level, component-based framework which provides a common functionality for image-guided surgery applications. The framework is a set of high-level components integrated with low-level open source software libraries and application programming interfaces (API) from hardware vendors. Its development was funded by an NIH grant.