Year-in-Review: Health and science are hot topics

The year 2013 brought great progress for the adoption of open source in the health and science industries. We covered some excellent open source stories, here the highlights from 2013.

The Jamaican ministry of health adopted GNU Health to be deployed nationwide. This the first national implementation of GNU health...

Another theme in 2013 was the pursuit of engaging younger developers in open source projects that support critical infrastructure...

Open source platforms accelerated medical research this year by supporting clinical trials, an effort that will also benefit from the wider availability of electronic health records (EHR)...

A growing sentiment that resonated this year with government agencies is on the importance of having access to the results of publicly funded scientific research...