Open-Health Solutions

The purpose of the project is to build a world class open source Enterprise integration engine. Uses of JEngine include healthcare systems/hospitals HL7 interface engine, intergration of HL7 with EMR and Practice Management Systems.

A Medical Algorithm is any computation, formula, survey, or look-up table, useful in healthcare. We have collected over 3500 algorithms spanning major medical domains, organized into 44 chapters. An additional chapter contains algorithms contributed by our visitors. To ensure the widest possible audience, the algorithms have been implemented in an Excel workbook which you can freely download to run on your Windows or Macintosh computer.

The 3D Slicer is freely available, open-source software for visualization, registration, segmentation, and quantification of medical data.

CARE 2002 is a smart software for hospitals and health care organizations. It is designed to integrate the different information systems existing in these organizations into one single efficient system. CARE 2002 solves the problems inherent in a network of multiple programs that are noncompatible with each other. It can integrate almost any type of services, systems, departments, clinic,processes, data, communication, etc. that exist in a hospital.

Integration of tools and critical knowledge in the clinical field for medical expert decision. Strong user involvement, knowledge extracted from Evidence-Based sources and validated by EU experts. The project aims at collecting medical digital assistants running stand alone in web browsers and palmtops tested in real world situations and licensed under open source initiative.

The program's main menu page features graphs showing practice quality parameters. Among others, these include pie charts showing glycohemoglobin results among all practice diabetics, and bar charts showing the number of women overdue for followup of various pap smear problems. The program may also show performance by individual physicians. The graphs on the main menu are designed to be key motivators to recall patients and produce good outcomes.

PICNIC will develop the next generation regional health care networks to support new ways of providing health and social care. The aim is to prepare regional health care providers to implement the next generation, secure, user-friendly, health care networks and to make the European market for telematics health care services less fragmented. The partners in PICNIC have agreed to make the development in an Open Environment: 1. An architecture, which is open and interoperable. 2. All models and specifications are in the public domain. 3. Applications, interfaces and messages are implemented according to the Open Source Model.

Digital multimedia, such as images and videos, are playing an increasingly important role in health sciences education. Educators, however, often do not have the time or resources to create high-quality materials. In the Fall of 2000 the development of Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) was started with funding of the National Science Foundation and in collaboration with National Library of Medicine.

myPACS is a web-based medical image management system. It allows uploading images and patient data from a web-browser. Images can be viewed in two different size of thumbnails. It doesn't support the DICOM standard, but it can be useful where images are accessible in ordinary image file formats such as JPG (for example digitized by a scanner or a frame grabber or downloaded from the Net).

The purpose of this project is to create Public Domain Medical Terminology documents that could be easily used by applications.

CRISNET is a Primary Care research organisation dedicated to medical information exchange and gathering through web based secure Open Source technology. CRISNET is currently developing a web based interface between Primary and Secondary care.

KPumpe is a diabetes diary application with support for reading records from your glucometer. It supports the Onetouch Ultra and other glucometers where glucomodule plugins are available.

OpenEMR is a modular, HIPAA compliant, Open Source, cross-platform Electronic Medical Records system (EMRS) developed by Synitech Incorporated (www.synitech.com). It facilitates efficient office management through automated patient record journaling, and has been successfully integrated with third-party technologies including speech recognition, secure wireless access, touch screen portables, and biometric authentication. Interface screens are themable and optimized for consistency, simplicity, speed of access to patient information, and minimum eye strain. OpenEMR is based upon widely-used public standards to achieve maximum compatibility with evolving technologies.

The NDC System was originally established as an essential part of an out-of-hospital drug reimbursement program under Medicare. The NDC serves as a universal product identifier for human drugs. The current edition of the National Drug Code Directory is limited to prescription drugs and a few selected OTC products. The data is updated quarterly within 5 working days after the end of March, June, September, and December.

e-TALC is a collaborative project to freely distribute up-to-date health and development information on CD-ROM.

DOSIS/GP is an acronym for Dutch Open Source Information Systems for use by General Practitioners. It is part of the OpenKaart initiative.

The CCS-SIS consortium is developing software components based on OMG HDTF (CorbaMed) standards for health care. These components are being made available under the GPL.

MedSource is an evolving resource to support the smart implementation of Open Source software in health care. Our quest is to support solutions and sharing that significantly lower the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Web-enabled and other software platforms, applications, interfaces and software components for the health care industry.

HAPI (HL7 application programming interface) is an open-source, object-oriented HL7 parser. The main distinguishing feature of HAPI is that it uses specific Java classes to represent each HL7 message structure. This allows it to enforce the structural validity of your messages when you compile your code, and to enforce the validity of field data at run time, with Java Exceptions. Source code for messages is generated automatically from HL7's database of standard messages.

iPath is an open source framework for building telepathology/telemedicine applications. At the core is the open source iPath-Server, an extsible telemedicine database sever with a web based interface. The iPath Server provides something like a medical discussion forum, where cases can be easily presented to others, discussed and commented within dedicated user groups. Besides a case database, iPath also provides additional modules. E.g. with the remote microscopy module you can remote control a motorised microscope over internet (currently iPath supports Leica Mikcroscopes and will soon be adapted to Merzhaeuser stage controller) As iPath is a very flexible system there are many different possibilities of using it. * Discuss difficult cases within dedicated user groups. * Collect different information of one cases from different sources. * Conenct your microscope to the Internet and share it with others. * Provide feedback to senders of specimen by presenting them images of i

Dental management software written in PHP4 and PostgreSQL.

OSCAR is a web based family practice system supporting the needs of care delivery, teaching, and research. OSCAR is based on more than 10 years of experience with the MUFFIN practice management system. OSCAR includes evidence based decision support tools for family practice.

Our aim is an open API on the basis of a open source kernel (kernHIS/kernXIS) system, primarily for General Practice systems but hopefully also for aother information systems in Medical care. In the near future the website we also be in English.

The goal of Debian-Med is a complete system for all tasks in medical care which is build completely on free software. The base of the project is the Debian distribution of GNU/Linux. Debian-med is a subset of that distribution specialised for medical applications. As a byproduct, the project is expected to integrate many existing projects by installing them in the same distribution. Open source health care products included in Debian-med will also be distributed in the full Debian GNU/Linux system.

Res Medicinae is supposed to be a comprising software solution for use in Medicine which combines intuitive ease of use with the advantages of the Java platform. It uses latest technology adhering to common standards for medical software and will such be open to many other medical systems. Res Medicinae is the attempt to overcome high pricing in the realm of Medical Information Systems and to provide users with a free, stable, secure, platform-independent, extensive system. Res Medicinae is and will be free in every meaning. Its contributors enjoy working together communicating over mailing lists and are encouraged by the idea of sharing their knowledge with those people living on "the poorer side of" the world.

Piano is a library containing ~75 algorithms and tools for multi-dimensional medical image processing, analysis and visualization. It is used in our group for several projects in the field of surgical planning.

Jalloo offers a CORBA interface to the PIANO image processing library. Thus it enables a simple programming model to distributed image processing.

dcm4che is an implementation of DICOM in Java.The sample applications may be useful on its own.It also includes an IHE compliant Image Archive application,based on J2EE.

Description: A web interface to postgres written in perl. This is a complete clinical and administrative application for providers of psychiatric housing, although the software is designed to accomodate an entire Community Mental Health Care Center (CMHC) or private practitioners (both Clinical Social Workers and Psychiatrists) working in Behavioural Health. The source is available under the terms of the GPL. Technical support is free via mailing lists. Support contracts are available from Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers of New York.

jTerm is an open source terminology server written in 100% Java. jTerm includes: a core set of java classes implementing the deKeiser Uniform Representation Formalism for terminological systems, and raw data loaders for SNOMED-RT 1.x.

This is a project to build a web based open source Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and physician practice management system.

Pathologists use lots of abbreviations and acronyms. An acronym is an abbreviation of a phrase, where each letter of the acronym is added consecutively from the first letter of each of the words of the phrase. An abbreviation is a shortened form of a text-string, and all acronyms are types of abbreviations. The page contains a computer parsable list of over 12,000 abbreviations used in medicine and pathology.

ApothecaryRx is a drug database for looking up information on medications used in primary care. You can look up a drug by certain matching criteria such as trade name, generic name, therapeutic class, or by names of drugs with which it may interact. Plans are to expand it so you can enter a list of drug names and have the program run a check for interactions against the entire list.

DocScope will be a free medical information tool that is as natural and easy for physicians to use as the spreadsheet is for accountants. Health care standards and open source application development tools are both converging on XML technology for the representation of records, transactions, and messages. This creates a new opportunity to assemble health care record systems from readily available open source XML components.

Pre-Surgical Patient Questionnaire

Duke Standard Anesthesia Lists and Codes

Linstanpunmp is a linux port of the dos program STANPUMP. This program is used to drive a computer controlled infusion pump using a pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic model.

The basic idea behind the LAMDI project is to develop a modular interface between various Anesthesia devices. Devices in this context could be: data capture devices, Software interpretation devices like pharmacokinetic or hemodynamic modelling modules; Control devices like infusion pumps and simulation devices.

The objectives of this project are development and demonstration of tools for the harmonisation of applied and emerging Web oriented security systems in telemedicine. The early deliverables contain an investigation of security requirements for medical systems across Europe.

Ovnibase is a system to collect databases of patient data for clinical and research (evidence based medicine) purposes. The components are "Sane" for scanning input forms, PostgresQL for the database and apache/netscape for a browser interface.

The goal is to develop XML DTDs and software to facilitate the secure transfer of personal health record information from notebooks, PDAs, and other local databases to websites that specialize in archiving health record information.

Gnosis is planned to be an open source, OS independant Laboratory Information Management System. The target market is small through huge laboratories in need of a powerful, simple to use and infinitely configurable LIMS.

The Open Healthcare Group's XChart Project is a movement to create an electronic medical record that is easier than paper. XChart is a system designed to combine the ease, speed and portability of paper systems with the efficiencies of computerized records. XChart is browsable via the web with minimal training. XChart supports standards.

This project is dedicated to developing medical group practice management calculators and tools that would be of interest to medical practice administrators.

Synapses enables healthcare professionals to share electronic patient records and related medical data wherever and in whatever system they are held. It provides the open generic means to access them consistently and simply. Due provision is made for legal, ethical and security requirements. The resulting specifications and supporting material are in the public domain. This project now seems to be idle, but the design documents are available.

This is a web application for evaluating anethesiology performance in a hospital setting. The nature of the information collected is based on an expert panel from the Société Francaise d'Anesthésie-Réanimation. This site is in French.

Pista is an open source project for regional healthcare networks. The site is in Spanish.

Storing every imaging study digitally together with the radiologist's report resulted in a huge database of diseases and their imaging presentations as well as normal anatomy. This database is, of course, an immensely valuable resource for teaching. The Virtual Medical School Project was initiated with the intention to convert this image database into a knowledge base. This knowledge base will form the foundation of a digital network based teaching system for the whole of medicine at every level: the "Virtual Medical School". It is based heavily on free software (Apache-Cocoon).

This is almost certainly the largest collection of open source health care software worldwide. The DHCP (Decentralized Hospital Computer Program) project was started in 1982 by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. As of 1994, the VA operated 173 medical centers, 389 outpatient clinics, 131 nursing homes, and 39 domiciliaries. In 1995, DHCP was nominated for the Smithsonian award for best use of information technology. Because this software was developed by and for the U.S. Government, the source code is largely in the public domain. Several dozen other institutions have implemented systems based on the VA source code. There is an active developer community at www.hardhats.org working on expanding and supporting this codebase now known as VISTA.

A simple Audiometry (medical) database suitable for use in the UK.

ProtoGen/HL7 is essentially a parser/builder generator that extracts it's rules from the HL7 standard document. The interface to the parser/builder is C++. Thus, the result of the generator is a C++ class library for the HL7 protocol. With the library you can build HL7 client/server applications or batch processors very easily. This site also contains a wealth of information about implementing HL7 aware open source applications and links to the most recent HL7 modelling work.

The Logical Observation Identifiers, Names and Codes (LOINC[tm]) database provides a set of universal names and ID codes for identifying laboratory and clinical observations.

Arachne is a full featured CORBA implementation bundled with an optional layered toolkit. This technology was developed specifically to support health care applications several of which are referenced from this page.

In this pharmacy research system, physicians and pharmacists use web forms to communicate information about medications for specific patients.

OpenEMed is a distributed healthcare and medical information system built on open standards including those of the healthcare taskforce of the Object Management Group. It provides sample implementations of those standard components in Java.

A clinical medical information system suitable for a Family Physicians office for storing clinical information on patients as opposed to just billing information. It runs on both Linux/X-windows and Windows95. This is possible using Tcl/Tk as the programming language.

FreePM is a template driven system that utilizes flexible open-source software to provide physicians with an easy to use, easy to modify medical record management solution. The system consists of a series of templates that create the component parts of a patient's medical records. These templates can be tailored by the practitioner to best suit their individual operating environment.

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. The goal of this project is to be the "home page" for finding patient information distributed in numerous locations around a regional network.

This is an open source HL7 (V2.1, 2.2) parser.

GNUMed is a comprehensive and robust open source software package for paperless medical practice.

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 Medline database.

OpenKnoME is a complete GRAIL knowledge management and ontological engineering environment. Among many other functions it allows you to browse, make sense of, and compile the OpenGALEN CRM sources.

OpenGALEN is a not-for-profit organisation. It is dedicated to bringing GALEN to the world as an open source resource. GALEN is a radical new technology for medical coding and terminology.

The Arden Syntax for Medical Logic Modules (MLMs) is a language for encoding medical knowledge. The standard for this language is managed by HL7.

Dental practice management software project.

MDSchedule is a PHP and MySQL server-based application for capturing physician schedule requests and schedule creation based on those requests.

There are two related classifications of diseases with similar titles. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is the classification used to code and classify mortality data from death certificates. The International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification (ICD-CM) is used to code and classify morbidity data from the inpatient and outpatient records, physician offices, and most NCHS surveys.

SICOT stands for Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie (Orthopaedic surgeons). They sponsor the deployment of a telediagnostic network across developing countries. The telediagnostic software allows physicians to construct and transmit a medical record containing scanned images for remote diagnostic assistance.

A shared and free infrastructure that supports the pooling of expertise, assessment instruments, data management, training, quality assurance, and reporting tools is a way to reduce the cost of conducting outcome assessments.

The Good Electronic Health Record (GEHR), a major part of the work of the openEHR Foundation, is an evolving electronic health record architecture designed to be comprehensive, portable and medico-legally robust. It has been developed from the Good European Health Record project requirements statement and object model.

The Odyssée project is the open source release of portions of the Nautilus project. Nautilus has a lexicon of 35000 medical terms linked into a semantic network representing medical domain knowledge. The network is used to guide an interaction dialog with a physician to record notes in structured form. Such structured notes are used to generate standardized text progress notes. The expert domain knowledge represented in the semantic network can speed data capture by focussing the interaction on relevant topics at each point in time. Recording medical records as semantic structures rather than text has many advantages, such as less amibuguity, language independence, and greater amenability to medical reasoning (assistant) technologies. This site is in French.

The main purpose of COSMOS is to serve as a repository of reusable objects (in source code) that are relevant to the medical domain. Small applications with increasing functionality, will then be built on top of the objects.

Computed Tomography is the technique of estimating the interior of objects from the measurements of radiation projected through the object. CTSim simulates the process of transmitting X-rays through phantom objects. These X-ray data are called projections. CTSim reconstructs the original phantom image from the projections using a variety of algorithms. Additionally, CTSim has a wide array of image analysis and image processing functions.

The purpose of the project is to develop a quantitative medical imaging and visualization program for use on brain MR, DTI and MRS data. It is a joint project of the Kennedy Krieger Institute and the Johns Hopkins University, Psychiatric Neuroimaging Lab.

Amide's a Medical Image Data Examiner: Amide is a tool for viewing, registering, and analyzing anatomical and functional volumetric medical imaging data sets.

Meditux is Java-servlet based software that provides a web interface to MySQL. It was developed to support an intranet site in a medical intensive care unit where it was used to collect clinical and research data.

This is a branch of the FreeMed developed by the Lutheran Homes Society Family & Youth Services. This is a web based open source Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and physician practice management system.

This program is designed to convert scanned 12-lead electrocardiograms into PNG format and a web-friendly image size. It assumes that the electrocardiogram (ECG) is printed with a black line on white paper with a red grid.

This is an attempt to produce a simple, correct HL7 library that can be embeded in projects to enable rapid development of powerful tools and robust interfaces. I intend to provide the same interface in C, Perl and Tcl. If someone else cares to implement the same library in another language (python perhaps) I will add a contrib section to this package and happily include it as well.

DICOMscope is a free DICOM viewer which can display uncompressed, monochrome DICOM images of all modalities and supports a calibration of the monitor according to DICOM part 14 as well as the new Presentation States. DICOMscope offers a print client (DICOM Basic Grayscale Print Management) which also implements the optional Presentation LUT SOP Class. The development of this prototype was commissioned by the "Committee for the Advancement of DICOM".

DCMTK is a collection of libraries and applications implementing large parts the DICOM standard for medical image communication. It includes software for examining, constructing and converting DICOM image files, handling offline media, sending and receiving images over a network connection, as well as demonstration image storage and worklist servers. DCMTK is is written in a mixture of ANSI C and C++.

FixIT is a portfolio of systems development toolkits for client/server applications based on VA's FileMan Data Base Management System at the server. The client-server communication is currently based on VA's Remote Procedure Call Broker. Delphi-FixIT is based on Inprise's (formerly Borland) Delphi at the client side, and intended for Windows clients. Web-FixIT is a functionally equivalent toolkit based on the web browser technology, Java and Inprise's JBuilder. International versions of both toolkits are available as freeware. FixIT is particularly intended for modernizing existing departmental information systems in hospitals, as well as for developing new ones.

Eviewbox is a Java application that allows you to view many kinds of images, including medical DICOM images.

Protégé provides an integrated knowledge-base editing environment nd an extensible architecture for the creation of customized knowledge-based tools. It is the tool used in PRODIGY to develop evidence based guidelines.

The U.S. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute is making a series of Palm OS applications and treatment guidelines and releasing them into the public domain. Initial applications include: 1) Clinical Guidelines on Overweight and Obesity in Adults, 2) Asthma Treatment Guidelines, and 3) a BMI calculator.

Black Sea TeleDiab is a multidisciplinary joint research project within the Health Telematics Programme to promote the exchange of diabetes related healthcare information in the Black Sea region. The aim is to develop standardised software for the collection, storage and transfer of medical information and health care data. The systems use an architecture based on the Good European Health Record (GEHR) which was developed within the Advanced Informatics in Medicine Program.

PhysioNet offers free access via the web to large collections of recorded physiologic signals and related open-source software. PhysioNet is a public service of the Research Resource for Complex Physiologic Signals, funded by the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health.

AccessGP is a free multi-user General Practice Management System written in Microsoft Access and running under Windows 95, 98 and NT. It is an integrated, sophisticated program that is freeware. It can be modified and further distributed as long as no charge is made and the source code remains open. This project is a hobby and I encourage others to share and modify the software. It is really only for those who are confident with Microsoft Access and computers.

Gnotary is an e-mail service to help prove that medical (and other) records have not been modified after a certain date. As opposed to handwriting and chemical changes of ink and paper over time, digital records can be altered without leaving a trace, even serial backups on CD-ROMS can be made retrospectively, so it might have little value in court. You simply email a message to any gnotary server, and pronto - an email comes back with a digital signature certifying that your email has been received at a given date. If you alter the content of the original email, the verification of the signature does not work any more.

This work involves the design and implementation of decentralized, web based medical record systems. Current application packages: 1) A prototype patient record system, 2) A hierarchical medical record browser, 3) A relational data base medical record browser, 4) A patient data collection instrument. The applications packages are written in an enhanced dialect of the Mumps language which includes support for web server development and SQL server storage of the data.

The project goal is to realize a wide radiologic software laboratory which is completely free and Opensource, without any commercial limitation. Everyone can partecipate as user, tester or developer; you can register yourselt in the Register Section. You can find at now a RIS software (ESO) and image & report distribution software that are developed at The University of Padova, Dept. of Medical & Diagnostic Sciences and Special Therapies.

A research program from Linköping University that focuses on the applicability of new information technology for home based care and other forms of healthcare that are not conducted within hospital walls (such as mobile/ambulatory care). Specific components are: * Health Pilot (a general research platform), * Diabetes Health Pilot, and * Heart Health Pilot

Medzope allows users with no knowledge of HTML or web-design to quickly produce effective websites and intranets for their medical/healthcare organisations. Via simple WYSIWYG forms, doctors, nurses, managers, administrators, even patients can work on the site through their web-browser, while the site-manager controls access rights to different sections.