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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GNU Solidario

GNU Solidario is an non-for-profit organization that works globally, delivering free and open source health and education software. Since 2005, they have been involved in humanitarian projects like the development of GNU Health. GNU Solidario's focus is primarily on developing countries, rural areas and villages. Read More »

Grameen Foundation

Grameen Foundation's mission is to enable the poor, especially the poorest, to create a world without poverty. The Foundation helps the world's poorest – especially women – improve their lives and escape poverty by providing them with access to appropriate financial services, life-changing information and unique income-generating opportunities. Read More »

Hardhats.Org

A virtual community and web site dedicated to fostering collaboration amongst the worldwide users of the public domain or open source VISTA electronic medical record (EMR) software solutions.

Health On the Net (HON) Foundation

Health On the Net (HON) Foundation promotes and guides the deployment of useful and reliable online health information, and its appropriate and efficient use. Read More »

Health UnBound (HUB)

Health UnBound (HUB) is the interactive network and online knowledge resource center for the mobile health (mHealth) community. Through HUB, the Mobile Health Alliance strives to bring together individuals from all disciplines of the mHealth community, from developers to doctors, to generate collective solutions and inspire new innovations that will transform health with technology. Read More »

Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is a non-profit organization focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. Read More »

Healthcare Information For All (HIFA)

Health Information For All (HIFA) is a growing ‘network of networks’ including almost 5000 health professionals, librarians, publishers, policymakers and researchers from 1800 organisations in 157 countries worldwide. Their Our shared vision is a world where every person has access to the information and knowledge they need to protect their own health and the health of their fellow citizens. Read More »

HealtheWay

Healtheway is a non-profit, public-private partnership that operationally supports the eHealth Exchange (formerly referred to as the Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange).

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HealthMap

HealthMap was founded by a team of researchers, epidemiologists and software developers at Children's Hospital Boston founded in 2006. It is an established global leader in utilizing online informal sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats. Read More »

Hesperian Digital Commons

Hesperian develops and distributes health guides and materials that provide knowledge for action, and inspire action for health.  Their guides are designed in partnership with and for community health workers and others in poor and marginalized communities around the world to prevent and cure disease, and to challenge the social injustices that cause poor health. Read More »

HIMSS Nursing Informatics Community

The HIMSS Nursing Informatics Community web site provides provides a wide range of information and services to the nursing informatics professional community. It includes links to educational and training materials, nursing informatics projects and initiatives, an online forum or wiki, videos, news, interactive tools, and more.

 

HISP (Health Information Systems Programme)

The Health Information Systems Programme (HISP) aims to support the improvement of health care systems in the southern hemisphere by increasing the capacity of health care workers to make decisions based on accurate information. Read More »

HISP India

HISP India is a not for profit NGO specializing for over decade in designing and implementing solutions in health informatics for the public health sector in India, and also recently in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Read More »

HispaLinux

Hispalinux is the association of Spanish users of Linux founded in June 1997. The goal of the association is to disseminate and facilitate access to the Linux system to users, and to coordinate, support and organization to unorganized groups that already exist in Spain. Read More »

HL7 International

Health Level Seven (HL7) International is a leading global organization working on standards for interoperability of health information technology, with members in over 55 countries.