HSWT
(Have Stethoscope Will Travel)
(Have Stethoscope Will Travel)
As I've said, this is going to be more a collection than any information about what you're actually supposed to be doing with any of these things.
Electronic Health Records, these are full-blow (mostly), EHRs that you can run, and are either open-source, have run in low-resource settings, or both.
OpenMRS: Arguably the granddaddy of all Global Health Informatics Systems, created in 2004, this system has been used around the world to run everything from clinics to full hospitals. Upkeep is still a little tricky, but overall an incredibly impressive product.
Bahmni: arguably the best use case for OpenMRS. Still based on OpenMRS but has grown into it's own system.
OpenEMR: I can't say I actually know much about this system I'm afraid, but it's open source, so may be worth a look.
VistA: Nope, not that one. This is the system that was developed by the VA Hospital system, and made all their source code public a number of years ago. It feels like you're working with DOS, but it's still one of the best systems I've ever used, and there are times I miss it's simplicity when compared with EPIC (motto, we can always add more places to click on your screen!).
GNU Health: an official GNU package, has been around for 10+ years, and I'm afraid that's about all I know.
OpenSRP: why haven't I heard of this one before? Oh yeah, because everyone in medicine has a huge ego, and no one shares anything because it needs to be all theirs. I'm going to be looking into this because it has some nice functionality, even if it may be somewhat basic (that's good! get the basics right first!)
OpenHIE: This is less an EHR, than a technical framework for making all of them work together properly. In the US we have completely failed with the interoperability piece, and I'm hoping the OpenHIE community will have better luck on the world stage.
There have also been two papers published recently looking at open source health software. One in general, and the other for low resource settings. Also, while I think it's missing some important entries, there's a Wikipedia page about open-source health software.