Software & Information Technology (IT)

Major 'open source' and public domain health information technologies (IT), software suites, and/or applications that have a vibrant support community composed of developers, users, vendors, etc.

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Red Cross Mobile Apps

The American Red Cross has developed a series of mobile apps and made them available at no cost to the public. They include apps providing useful information to citizens related to First Aid, Hurricanes, Eartquakes, and steps to take when faced with other natural disasters.

REMITT

REMITT is an open source medical information translation and transmission system, which is primarily used for preparing and submitting medical billing data. It works independent of any specific electronic medical record (EMR) or practice management (PM) system, and can interface with any EMR or PM system which implements its application programming interface (API).

Robot Operating System (ROS)

Robot Operating System (ROS) provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications. It provides hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more. ROS is licensed under an open source, BSD license.

RODS

Real-time Outbreak & Disease Surveillance (RODS) is a free software package for public health biosurveillance. RODS collects and analyzes disease surveillance data in real time. It is funded by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

RPMS (Resource & Patient Management System)

Resource and Patient Management System (RPMS) is a decentralized integrated solution for management of both clinical and administrative information used by many Indian Health Service (IHS) healthcare facilities. Flexible hardware configurations, over 50 software applications, and network communication components combine to create a comprehensive clinical, financial, and administrative solution; a solution that can stand alone or function in concert with other components as needed.

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Ruby On Rails

Ruby On Rails is an open source web framework for software application developers. It uses the Ruby programming language. 'Rails' was created in 2003 by David Heinemeier Hansson and has since been extended by the Rails core team, more than 2,100 contributors, and is supported by a vibrant ecosystem.

Sahana Foundation Projects

Sahana is a free and open source Disaster Management system. It addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effec-tively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves. See Sahana web site. Read More »

Sailfish

Sailfish is a modern and independent mobile operating system (OS) that enables free competition and innovation, without predominant control by a single player.

Sailfish brings and fosters innovation to offer unique differentiation and a competitive advantage for OEMs and ODMs, chipset providers, operators, application developers and retailers. Read More »

Sakai

Sakai is a widely used open source Content Management System (CMS) and Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) software solution designed for education, research and related scholarly activities. Read More »

Sana

Sana is a standard-focused open source system that supports audio, images, location-based data, text, and video. The complete Sana system consists of at least one phone and a web-connected server. The server runs the medical records system of choice, such as OpenMRS, and the Sana Dispatch Server program. It is available under the BSD license. Read More »

SatScan

SaTScan is free open source software that analyzes spatial, temporal and space-time data using the spatial, temporal, or space-time scan statistics. It is designed for any of the following interrelated purposes: Read More »

SNOMED

Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT) is considered to be the most comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology in the world. Each year, avoidable deaths and injuries occur because of poor communication between healthcare practitioners, or because busy practitioners forget or neglect to follow their own criteria for best practices. Read More »

Socratic Grid

Socratic Grid is an early-stage, 'open sourced' Clinical Decision Support platform for healthcare. It provides tools for modeling the semantics and structure of clinical and administrative data, for real-time analysis using a variety of inferencing technologies, and for delivering actionable results using highly optimized automated workflows. Read More »

SOFA

Simulation Open Framework Architecture (SOFA) is an Open Source framework primarily targeted at real-time simulation, with an emphasis on medical simulation. It is mostly intended for the research community to help develop newer algorithms, but can also be used as an efficient prototyping tool.

SourceForge

SourceForge is considered the leading resource for open source software development and distribution. The site houses over 300,000 projects, connects more than 46 million consumers with these open source projects, and serves more than 2,000,000 downloads a day. SourceForge.net is owned and operated by Geeknet, Inc., a publicly traded US-based company.