Non Government Organization (NGO)

Non-government organizations (NGO) are usually non-profit charitable organizations or foundations supporting open source and health IT projects and activities.

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Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) is a not-for-profit consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society. Read More »

OSCAR Canada Users Society (OCUS)

The Oscar Canada Users Society (OCUS) is a community of people dedicated to fostering the growth of the OSCAR user community and their satisfaction with the OSCAR suite of open source applications, including the OSCAR electronic medical record (EMR) system. OCUS is a cooperative social network which serves to channel helpful information among OSCAR users. Read More »

OSEHRA

OSEHRA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating innovation in electronic health record software and related technology. Founded in 2011, OSEHRA is a rapidly growing open source community with over 850 registered members representing 160+ industry, academic, and government organizations. OSEHRA supports an open, collaborative community of users, developers, and researchers engaged in advancing health IT.

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OSGi Alliance

The OSGi [Open Services Gateway Initiative] Alliance is a worldwide consortium of technology innovators that strive to advances a proven and mature process to create open specifications that enable the modular assembly of software built with Java technology. Read More »

OSS Watch

OSS Watch provides unbiased advice, guidance, news, and information on the use, development, and licensing of free and open source software for use in Education.

OSS Watch is composed of a team of experts in free and open source software providing an independent, non-advocacy advisory service based out of the University of Oxford. Read More »

Outercurve Foundation

The mission of the Outercurve Foundation is to enable the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities. Read More »

OW2 Consortium

In 2007, two leading open source middleware communities, ObjectWeb and Orientware, merged to form the OW2 Consortium consisting of renowned industry IT corporations, innovative start-ups, prominent academic organizations and individuals from across the world. OW2 is an independent open source community committed to making available to everyone the best and most reliable enterprise computing infrastructure software, including middleware, application platforms and cloud computing technologies. Read More »

Pan American Health Care Exchange (PAHCE)

Pan American Health Care Exchange (PAHCE) provides an independent forum for emerging medical technologies and innovations in procedures and techniques, equipment and appliances, which brings health care industries together with  medical personnel, engineering and technical professionals, and those engaged in medical information technologies  in the  academia, hospital and clinica Read More »

Partners for World Health (PWH)

Partners for World Health (PWH) is a non-profit 501(c)3 based in South Portland, Maine that is committed to reducing medical waste, improving the quality of healthcare in underserved countries, and educating our local community about global healthcare issues. We collect medical supplies that healthcare facilities in the U.S. are required to discard and ship them to countries in need. Read More »

Partners In Health

Partners In Health (PIH) has three goals: to care for our patients, to alleviate the root causes of disease in their communities, and to share lessons learned around the world. In partnership with sister organizations, PIH brings the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need and work to alleviate the crushing economic and social burdens of poverty that exacerbate disease. Read More »

Pentaho

The Pentaho open source community is dedicated to delivering a complete, well integrated, and high quality open source suite of business intelligence (BI) software. The Pentaho suite consists of two offerings, (1) an open source community version and (2) a commercial enterprise offering.

 

Pistoia Alliance

From its initial conception at a conference in Pistoia, Italy, the Pistoia Alliance has focused on bringing stakeholders together to tackle the common barriers that stand in the way of innovation. Read More »

Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC)

The purpose of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) is to conduct meta-analyses of genome-wide genetic data for psychiatric disease.

The PGC has been committed to full and open sharing of data and results since its inception. This has become the community standard in human genetics, and is mandated by one of our funders, the U.S. National Institutes of Mental Health. Read More »

Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHDSC)

The Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHDSC) is a national non-profit membership-based organization of federal, state, and local health agencies; professional associations, academia; public and private sector organizations; international members; and individuals. Read More »

Public Health Foundation (PHF)

The Public Health Foundation (PHF) is dedicated to achieving healthy communities through research, training, and technical assistance.  For more than 40 years, this national, non-profit organization has been creating new information and helping health agencies and other community health organizations connect to and more effectively use information to manage and improve performance, underst Read More »