Open Source: Health IT Systems

The following are links to selected 'open source' Electronic Health Record (EHR) and other Health IT systems: Videos

'Open' EHR Systems

• OpenEMR - A free and open source medical practice management, electronic medical records (EMR), prescription writing, and medical billing application.

• OpenEHR - An open source software platform and tools that can be used to create high-quality, re-usable clinical models of content and process along with formal interfaces to terminology.

• OpenMRS - A community-developed, open source, enterprise electronic medical record system platform that can be customized to the needs of clinical and research organizations.

• Open Source Clinical Applications & Resources (OSCAR) - A suite of open source software applications developed in Canada that include electronic medical records (EMR), a billing module, a personal health record (PHR), and more.

• Resource& Patient Management System (RPMS) - A popular variant of the VistA system now used by the Indian Health Service (IHS) and several states in hundreds of health care facilities of various sizes across the U.S.

• VistA - A comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) and practice management system originally developed by the Veterans Health Administration. The software is in the public domain and is installed in several thousand public and private hospitals and clinics around the world and is supported by OSEHRA and a thriving 'open' community.

* Check out WorldVistA , MedSphere Open VistA and vxVistA. Also, see global VistA Installation Map.

'Open' Health IT Systems - Selected Examples

• BioImageXD – A free 'open source' software tool for analysis and visualization of multidimensional biomedical images.

• Dicoogle Open PACS - A free, open source image referral, archiving, routing and viewing system.

• Epi Info - Used worldwide for disease surveillance and the rapid assessment of disease outbreaks.

• InSTEDD - A non-profit collaborative organization that has`developed an evolving set of innovative 'open' health tools for responding to Emergencies, Diseases, and Disasters.

• KitWare - Employs an open source development and business model to foster extended, collaborative communities, especially around medical imaging solutions, e.g. VTK, ITK, ParaView.

• NCBI Human Genome Systems - An integrated, one-stop, genomic information infrastructure for biomedical researchers around the world.

• OpenClinica - Open source clinical trials software for electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical data management (CDM).

• Open Dental - An open source dental practice management system and electronic dental record (EDR) system

• OpenEyes - Open source medical record system designed for ophthamology.

• Sahana Software - A series of high quality, free and open source Disaster Management software tools.

• World Community Grid - Bringing people together from across the globe to create the largest non-profit computing grid of pooled computer processing power benefiting humanity

* See comprehensive list of Open Source Medical Software systems posted on Wikipedia.