List of open source healthcare
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The following is a list of software packages and applications licensed under an open source license or in the public domain for use in the healthcare industry.
[edit] Electronic Health Record/Electronic Medical Record
- GNUmed
- SQL Clinic
- tkFP
- Vista Veterans Administrations EHR system written in MUMPS
- also see Vista community site
- OpenMed is a distributed healthcare and medical information framework based on open standards including those of HL7 and the healthcare taskforce of the OMG
- XChart appears to be a dead project
- Circare is a client and provider index that ties together the information about a single patient and makes it available securely to care providers in a distributed network. Does not look like it has been updated since 2000
- Saukhya-Must is a Web-based basic nursing home / healthcare management system that enables fast, accurate and automated collection of patient data and subsequent report generation, ideal for small general hospitals.
- Medclipse an open-source Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software for the Swiss general practitioner
- CAISI is an EMR system based on Oscar but offers more features for support of integrated holistic health-care for homeless people
- Tolven ePHR Electronic Personal/Clinical Health Record system and informatics platform
- OpenHRE Health Record Exchange and Access Control services
- Referent Tracking System novel approach to store data in electronic (health) records by referring to real world entities by means of a unique ID
- PatientRunner is a mental health medical records system
- SEHR
- LifRecord
- CHIRIS (Canada Health Infoway Reference Implementation Suite) is a demonstration of Electronic Health Record (EHR) interoperability messaging created by Canada Health Infoway
- Open Healthcare Framework Developed by IBM for sharing medical information across disparate health record systems and used by IBM as part of its participation in the National Health Information Network.
- OpenEMR an open-source Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software.
- OSCAR an open-source Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software. Some software is specialized for the needs of Canadian health care providers.
- Cottage Med
- OpenMRS
- IndivoHealth EHR were the patient is in control of the record not the clinicians
[edit] Medical Practice Management Software
- ClearHealth
- FreeMED (see also the FreeMED wikipedia article)
- GPLMedicine.org A Open Source EHR/PM comparison site
- MirrorMed
- OpenEMR (see also the OpenEMR wikipedia article)
- Care2x Hospital information system/practice management system/EHR
- VBNetMed formeraly call AccessPG developed by a single practitioner in Townsville Queensland Australia, written in VB .NET, last update july 2006
- Office Manager Encompasing office management healthcare software for medical practices, doctors groups, DMEs, retailers, etc. It does User/patient management, point of sale, scheduling, sign-in, inventory, insurance claims, accouting, etc. Any OS!
- Elexis Praxisprogramm is an Eclipse RCP program for all aspects of a medical practice: electronic medical record (EMR), laboratory findings etc., as well as accounting, billing (Swiss TARMED-System, other systems to be developed) and other daily work
- OpenTAPAS Technology Assisted Practice Application Suite (TAPAS) is a term that describes digital tools that assist physicians deliver care in a paper based office
[edit] Imaging/Visualization
- Eviewbox Java medical imaging software
- DCMTK is a collection of libraries and applications implementing large parts the DICOM standard
- GDCM is a librarie shipped with some applications implementing part 5 of the DICOM standard
- Amide tool for viewing, analyzing, and registering volumetric medical imaging data sets, actively being developed
- CTSIM Computed Tomography Simulator, active development
- ecg2png Program designed to convert scanned 12-lead electrocardiograms into PNG format
- DCM4CHE Open Source Clinical Image and Object Management written in java
- MITK Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit
- Imlib3d C++ library for 3D (volumetric) image processing
- 3D SlicerMedical Visualization and Processing Environment for Research
- Tempo(Topographic Eeg Mapping PrOgram) is open source software for 3D visualization of brain electrical activity
- PhP Nuke healthcare PHP-Nuke based system for Health Institutes. X-Ray and Register modules for storing patient datas with pictures. System is DICOM compatible
- miniwebpacs storage, control and recovery of medical images and information in healthcare providers of small and medium capacity. Such system is based on the DICOM standard and in the actual WEB technologies.
- DICOM Validation Tool (DVT) is a software utility and a set of .NET components that will assist in testing the medical / healthcare protocol DICOM. DVT provides you the methods to transfer and validate DICOM objects.
- OsiriX 3D DICOM Medical Viewer for MacOS X. Complete DICOM Viewer with complete DICOM network support ! DICOM DICOM
- BioImageXD software for analysis, processing and 3D rendering of multi dimensional, multi data channel, time series image data from microscopy and other sources
- O3-RWS is the Radiology Workstation of the Open Three ( O3 ) Consortium. According to the IHE definitions,O3-RWS is an Open Source, DICOM based, Internationalized, Modular and Portable Image Display actor plus the integration of several other IHE actors.
- CDMedic PACS
- DICOM Router a variety of DICOM related utilities
- BrainStorm an electro/magnetoencephalography (EEG/MEG) data processing and vizualisation toolbox.
- BrainVisa a brain imaging package including data processing and visualization capabilities, such as T1-based gyrus segmentation, diffusion-based fibertracking, PET, MEG, EEG and more.
- VTK Visualization Toolkit
- ITK Segmentation and Registration Toolkit
- ParaView Large Scale Visualization tool
[edit] Medical Information Systems
- Caisis is a web based information system for the storage and analysis of cancer patient data intended to bridge the gap between clinic and research.
- meditux medical information system written in java, development stopped in 2004
- Open Infrastructure for Outcomes OIO) system enables clinicians, researchers, and other non-programmers to create and maintain flexible and portable patient/research records.
- SmartenRx is a pharmacy communication system. It sends messages between pharmacists and physicians containing medication profiles, recommendations, and new prescriptions. The system also supports research use of historical data to measure effectiveness
- GnosisLims is a system of software that is designed to generically address the Information Management needs of any laboratory, last and only release in 2005
- Resmedicinae
- trilonis-mc For managed healthcare group eligibility, billing, capitation, and claims adjudication. Aimed at TPA's, HMO's, PPO's, and self-insured employers. HIPAA compliant. Will handle medical, dental, vision, psych, section 125 and COBRA
[edit] Standards Libraries
- hl7lib Software implementing Health Level 7 protocols commonly used in the medical industry, last realeas in the year 2000
- HL7ImExa is table driven set C routines to encode/decode HL-7 messages, last updated in 1996
- ProtoGen/HL7 an implementation of HL7 in C++ , last updated in 2001
- HAPI (HL7 application programming interface; pronounced "happy") is an open-source, object-oriented HL7 2.x parser for Java
- nHAPI .Net version of HAPI (http://hl7api.sourceforge.net/).
- Mirth is an open source cross-platform HL7 interface engine that enables bi-directional sending of HL7 messages between systems and applications over multiple transports.
- O3-DPACS stands for “Open Three ( O3 ) - Data & Picture Archiving and Communication System”. O3-DPACS is a DICOM & HL7 based IHE compliant Open Source PACS extended to any type of data
- HL7 Inspector 2 HL7 analysis and validation tool
- Open LIS-HL7 HL7 library written in Delphi 6
[edit] BIO Surveillance
- RODS Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) is open-source public health surveillance software. RODS collects and analyzes disease surveillance data in real time and has been in development since 1999 by the RODS Laboratory--a collaboration of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University
[edit] Signal Processing
- BioSig library for biomedical signal processing featuring for example the analysis of biosignals such as the electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocorticogram (ECoG), electrocardiogram (ECG), electrooculogram (EOG), electromyogram (EMG), respiration, and so on License: GPL
- ecg2png Program designed to convert scanned 12-lead electrocardiograms into PNG format
[edit] Research
- BioMail is a small web-based application for medical researchers, biologists, and anyone who wants to know the latest information about a disease or a biological phenomenon. It is written to automate searching for recent scientific papers in the PubMed
- MIX Meta Analysis software for Excel
Medline database
[edit] Operating System
[edit] Data Translation
- Chiapas is an enterprise level HIPAA data translation package
[edit] Handheld Devices
- National Heart and Lung Institute medical software for handlhelds
[edit] Integration
- Jengine apparently dead integration engine project written in java
[edit] Coding
OpenGalen computer-based multilingual coding system for medicine
[edit] Data (free data related to the healthcare industry)
- ICD National Center for Hhealth Statistics Classification of Diseases and Functioning&Disabilities
- LOINC Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes - database of codes and universal identifiers for laboratory and other clinical observations
- The National Drug Code Directory National Drug Code Directory
[edit] Telemendicine
- IPath open source telemedicine platform
[edit] IHE
- IHEOS implementation of IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Environment) actors. IHE defines profiles for the use of various standards in the healthcare environment
[edit] Private Health Record
- Tapeworm Gnome-desktop health profiler to keep track of your diet, including calories and %'s of fat, carbs, and protein, exercise, blood glucose, weight, etc...
[edit] Other
- Lamdi Linux Anesthesia Modular Devices Interface
- CHITS Community Health Information Tracking System , active development
- Physionet a collection of software for
- WFDB Software for viewing, analyzing, and creating recordings of physiologic signals
- record an application for capturing data from an HP CMS (Merlin) monitor
- apdet Hilbert Transform based Sleep Apnea Detection using a Single Lead Electrocardiogram
- ecgwave QRS detection and waveform boundary recognition using ecgpuwave
- edr Derive a respiration signal from one or more ECG signals
- puka software for detection of breaths in strain gauge recordings
- many more componets available in the Physionet Software Index
- Medical Algorithms Project Not really software or strictly open source but usable medical algorithms none the less
- [1] HL7 Message browser and radiological image distribution. Last build was in 2003
- MedMapper Medical decision making algorithm tool. Visual design tool generates Tcl/Tk code. Non-programmers can design interactive algorithms. Generates notes for inclusion in medical record. Runs freestanding or in Tcl Plugin.
- OS-ELN Web based Electronic Lab Notebook
- hpx Healthcare Xchange Protocol for interoperative communications. Data exchange/transfer, platform independent,XML-RPC, HL7, SOAP, EDIFACT
- OHF Eclipse foundation Healthcare project to create components to improve interoperability in the healthcare industry
- Ideopass/ component to manage the identity of the patients in healthcare organizations
- SQLCare is a clinical database/web application for healthcare providers in the United States
- EGADSS is an open source tool that is designed to work in conjunction with primary care Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems to provide patient specific point of care reminders in order to aid physicians provide high quality care
- 03-MARIS HE compliant Department System IHE Order Filler and PPS Manager, for scheduling and workflow management in radiology department
- 03-RWS IHE compliant Internationalized Modular Portable Radiology workstation
- 03-TEBAN allows 3D reconstruction of brain electrical activity from magnetic resonance measurements (MRI) and brain activity mapping even in pathological patients.
- 03-Fat Brother software for monitoring DICOM and HL7 services
- 03-XDS is an XDS complete System
- NetEpi Open source tools for population health epidemiology
- ROC.KIT This application allows for automated calculation of ROC curves (Receiver-Operating-Characteristic) from continuous medical data like laboratory results.
- Sispread epidemic simulation
- influsim Influenza pendemic simulator
