Open Source in any an all forms for Healthcare is fast becoming a hot topic and organizations and tools are beginning to pop up all over the web.
I’ve seen a broad range of sites and mentions recently including:
Strategic Industry level standards based organizations such as the Open eHealth Foundation which was founded at HIMSS this year by Agfa HealthCare, InterComponentWare and Sun Microsystems to provide software components under an Open Source license that will seed the market with open standards-based solutions to exchange medical information.
Tactical solutions such as Open Health Tools which is a more traditional open source community with a vision of “enabling a ubiquitous ecosystem where members of the Health and IT professions can collaborate to build interoperable systems that enable patients and their care providers to have access to vital and reliable medical information at the time and place it is needed”.
To the compiled misc lists such as The Top 100 Open Source Software Tools for Medical Professionals.
With all the attention Google and Microsoft have been receiving lately for their initiatives and offerings, I expect the Open Source eHealth market and offerings are only getting started.
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