Software & Information Technology (IT)

Major 'open source' and public domain health information technologies (IT), software suites, and/or applications that have a vibrant support community composed of developers, users, vendors, etc.

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Bi-directional Health Information Exchange (BHIE)

Bi-directional Health Information Exchange (BHIE) is a series of communications protocols and software tools developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). It is used to exchange healthcare information between VA and DoD healthcare facilities nationwide. It is one of the most widely used health information exchange (HIE) solutions in use today. Read More »

Bika Lab Systems

Bika Lab Systems sponsors and coordinates the open source Bika laboratory information management system (LIMS) project at SourceForge.net  It is committed to keep the Bika code free and available and to maintain effective organizational support. Read More »

BioDT

BioDT, a software platform offered by BioDatomics, integrates over 400 commonly used genomic analysis open source tools and pipelines into a single platform that simplifies advanced modeling and collaboration, significantly accelerates analysis execution, and enables visualized results. Read More »

BioImageXD

BioImageXD is a free and open source software for analysis, processing and 3D rendering of multi dimensional microscopy images.  BioImageXD is a collaborative open source software project, designed and developed by microscopists, cell biologists and programmers from the Universities of Jyväskylä and Turku in Finland, the Max Planck Institute in Germany, and other collaborators worldwide. Read More »

Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) Tools

Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) is committed to helping biomedical researchers access the software tools they need to pursue next-generation research. They offer access to a range of shareware software tools in the public domain. Read More »

BioSig

BioSig is an open source software library for biomedical signal processing, e.g. featuring the analysis of biosignals such EEG, ECG, EMG, respiration, and more. Major application areas are: Neuroinformatics, brain-computer interfaces, neurophysiology, psychology, cardiovascular systems and sleep research. Read More »

Blue Button

The Blue Button approach is a simple concept: A patient is provided with a highly visible, clickable button to download his or her medical records in digital form from a secure website offered by their doctors, insurers, pharmacies or other health-related service. Read More »

BlueEHS

BlueEHS, the Electronic Health Solution, on the Amazon AWS platform as an Amazon Machine Image for the benefit of all AWS users worldwide. ZH Healthcare is the developer of BlueEHS, a first of its kind, Freemium, SaaS, Electronic Health Solution (EHS). BlueEHS offers a customizable Electronic Health Records (EHR) with an integrated practice management system (PMS), e-Rx, lab interfaces, a telemedicine-enabled comprehensive patient portal, and more.

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Business Intelligence & Reporting Tools (BIRT) Project

Business Intelligence & Reporting Tools (BIRT) is an open source Eclipse-based reporting system that integrates with Java/Java EE applications to produce compelling reports. BIRT provides core reporting features such as report layout, data access and scripting. Read More »

caBIG

caBIG, the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid, is sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI).  The initiative is supported by an 'open' development community. caBIG offers more than 40 open source tools for adoption and has grouped many of the most popular ones into collections or "bundles" that can be installed as a package or individually. The bundles include:
   • caBIG® Clinical Trials Suite – A comprehensive set of open-source software tools that facilitates electronic management of clinical trials and associated data, and enables comprehensive sharing and integration of clinical research information.
   • Life Sciences Distribution – A set of tools that support a range of life science needs, from tracking and managing  biospecimens to analyzing and integrating microarray data. Read More »

CAISIS

Caisis is an open source, web-based cancer data management system that integrates research with patient care. The system is freely distributed to promote standards and collaborative research, and has been downloaded by thousands of institutions world wide. Collaboration with multiple centers has allowed Caisis to develop and evolve in an environment of constant feedback and scrutiny. Read More »

CAliPHR

CQM Aligned Population Health Reporting (CAliPHR) is an open source tool that is designed to calculate electronic clinical quality measures eCQMs at a provider, practice, payment arrangement, and community level to support incentive and value-based payment programs. CAliPHR can calculate eCQMs from imported clinical summary documents in the QRDA Cat I or C-CDA format.

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CARE2X

CARE2X is an open source integrated Hospital Information System including software modules for Admissions, Laboratory, Pharmacy, Surgery, Nursing, , Outpatient, Wards, and more. It makes use of Apache, MySQL, Mozilla and other open source components. CARE2X solves the problems inherent in a network of multiple programs that are incompatible with each other. Read More »

Caret

Caret is a free, open-source, software package for structural and functional analyses of the cerebral and cerebellar cortex. Caret runs on Apple's Mac OSX, Linux, and MS Windows operating systems.

CASE

Computer Assisted Search for Epidemics (CASE) is an open source system that generates warnings when the number of reported cases of a particular infectious disease reaches a level that indicates an unusual or unexpected rate. It was developed and is in use in Sweden.