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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VA Informatics and Computing Infrastructure (VINCI)

The VA Informatics and Computing Infrastructure (VINCI) is a secure computing environment for VA researchers. VINCI provides a virtual computing workspace and analytic tools for researcher use. VINCI allows users to select software from many commercial, government, open-source, and custom analytic tools, including SAS/Grid, SQL, and R for use in the workspace. Read More »

VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a cross-platform virtualization application. It installs on Intel or AMD-based computers, whether they are running Windows, Mac, Linux or Solaris operating systems. It extends the capabilities of your existing computer so that it can run multiple operating systems, inside multiple virtual machines, at the same time.

Vision2

Vision2 is an open source tool for ophthalmologists and other vision testing professionals. It's useful for a variety of ophthalmology testing applications related to stereo vision. It implements many of classical tests but also new types of vectographic and random dot exams.

VistA

Veterans Health Information Systems & Technology Architecture (VistA) - This is a comprehensive electronic health record (EMR) and practice management system system originally developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The software is in the public domain and is installed in several thousand public and private hospitals and clinics around the world and supported by a number of public organizations and health IT corporations.

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VistA Imaging

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) VistA Imaging system facilitates medical decision-making by delivering complete multimedia patient information to the clinician’s desktop in an integrated manner. Read More »

VistA Nursing System

VistA Nursing System
The Nursing application is just one of the many modules of the open source or public domain Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) VistA health information system. Nursing is comprised of multiple components - i.e., Administration, Education, Clinical Care, and Quality Assurance. In general, the Nursing system can be used to: Read More »

Visualization ToolKit (VTK)

Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization. VTK has an extensive information visualization framework, has a suite of 3D interaction widgets, supports parallel processing, and integrates with various databases on GUI toolkits such as Qt and Tk. Read More »

vxVistA

vxVistA is an open source version of the public domain VistA electronic health record (EHR) system developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). It  has been modified and enhanced by DSS, Inc. to work in non-VA healthcare delivery settings.

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WebEMS

WebEMS is an open source web-based suite of tools used to facilitate emergency medical services (EMS). It supports the entire Ambulance Services Pipeline with modules that include dispatch, crew scheduling, mobile field data collection, billing, administration, and reporting. Read More »

WHO Public Health Mapping

The World Health Organization (WHO) Public Health Mapping & GIS program is developing tools and applications to respond to critical information needs of infectious disease and public health programmes. Read More »

Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER)

Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER) is a system designed to assist first responders in hazardous material incidents. WISER provides a wide range of information on hazardous substances, including substance identification support, physical characteristics, human health information, and containment and suppression advice.

WONDER

Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) is an easy-to-use, menu-driven system that makes the information resources of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) available to public health professionals and the public at large. It provides access to a wide array of public health information. Read More »

WordPress

WordPress started out as a simple blogging system and tool set, but has evolved and become a full featured Content Management System (CMS) with thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes. It is now the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world used on millions of sites. WordPress is an open source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. Read More »

WorldVistA EHR

WorldVistA EHR is an 'open source' electronic health record (EHR), based on the highly acclaimed U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) VistA system, that has been collaboratively improved and extended by the WorldVistA community for use by health care facilities around the world. Read More »

ZEPRS

The Zambia Electronic Perinatal Record System (ZEPRS) is an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system used by public obstetric clinics and the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia to improve patient care. Read More »