Organizations

Selected public and private sector organizations having an impact on open source and health IT technologies and solutions.

See the following -

OpenLogic

OpenLogics - A for-profit company helping enterpises successfully and securely use open source software by providing commercial-grade technical support on over 500 open source packages, a web-based platform for open source governance, open source scanning solutions, and a library of certified open source software with security notifications.

OpenMedia Foundation

Open Media Foundation believes that the Open Source software movement is a model for broad social change movements away from commercial interests and towards public good. To that end, they support a number of open source software development projects, e.g. OpenMedia, Creative Commons, CiviCRM.

OpenMRS

OpenMRS is a community of people working to apply health information technologies to solve problems, primarily in resource-poor environments.  It is  a proud community of developers, implementers, funders, and users all trying to make the world a better place by using our expertise to improve the health and wellness of the planet.

Read More »

OpenOffice

OpenOffice is best known as a free and open office productivity software suite. It can be viewed as both a product and an open source project - as well as being an 'open' organization. OpenOffice.Org was established back in October 2000 and OpenOffice version 1.0 was first released back in April 2002. Read More »

OpenSafety.Org

OpenSafety.org is a non-profit Patient Safety Organization where scholars, practitioners, and corporations create, share, and implement community driven solutions to the safety problems in healthcare today. They provide access to information, training materials, videos, and software tools related to patient safet.

OpenSource Magazine

OpenSource Magazine in an online news site addressing issues, trends and technologies like JAVA, Eclipse, Linux, Open Source, Open Web 2.0, Health 2.0, and more.

OpenStack

OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API. OpenStack works with popular enterprise and open source technologies making it ideal for heterogeneous infrastructure. Read More »

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is an initiative to create and provide free geographic data, such as street maps, to anyone. The OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) is an international not-for-profit organization supporting the OpenStreetMap Project. It is dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free geospatial data and to providing geospatial data for anyone to use and share.

Optum

Optum is a leading health services and innovation company dedicated to helping make the health system work better for everyone. With more than 94,000 people worldwide, Optum combines technology, data and expertise to improve the delivery, quality and efficiency of health care. Optum uniquely collaborates with all participants in health care, connecting them with a shared focus on creating a healthier world.

Read More »

Oracle

Oracle provides the world with complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems. Oracle's open architecture and multiple operating-system options gives customers unmatched benefits from their industry-leading products, which include open source software products. Oracle recently acquired Sun Systems (Java) and MySQL as they continue to move into the open source arena.

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 »

OrganizedWisdom

OrganizedWisdom is a company aggregates, organizes, and promotes online wisdom and knowledge shared across the web by more than 5,000 vetted health and wellness experts. Thousands of health practitioners, and people with useful health wisdom and knowledge contribute to the site by blogging, participating in public forums, and sharing links. Read More »

Oroville Hospital

Oroville Hospital is a community hospital in Northern California dedicated to providing the finest personalized health care. It offers a medical home, with a wide range of integrated services from prevention through treatment to wellness. In order to provide the highest quality medical care to the community, Oroville Hospital chose to self-implement the open source VistA electronic health record (EHR) system.

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 »

OSCAR EMR

OSCAR is a comprehensive open source Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Care Management suite of software developed and supported collaboratively by the team at McMaster University known as OSCAR EMR, a number of other universities across the country, and the OSCAR Canada User Society (OCUS). Read More »