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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GNU Health

GNU Health is a project of GNU Solidario.GNU Health has produced a free, open source Health Information System with the following major functionality : Read More »

GNUmed

GNUmed is a free, liberated open source Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software solution available in multiple languages. It is made available at no charge and is capable of running on GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.  It is primarily designed for use in ambulatory care settings, e.g. Read More »

Go! Animate

Go! Animate is a free do-it-yourself (DIY) animated video creation website. Read More »

Google Health

Google Health is a free, online personal health record (PHR) system offered by Google for your own use that allows you to enter, organize, store, track, monitor, and act on your health information as needed. [Google recently announced that they would be phasing out this product in 2012.]

Google Public Alerts

Google launched an open data platform in 2013 to share information on natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons and floods. The system can be used by governments and other organizations to build localized crisis response systems. The system can be accessed on personal computers or mobile devices to find information such as the typhoon path, affected areas and nearby places of refuge. Read More »

GT.M

GT.M is an open source 'M' computer language compiler/interpreter and database engine with scalability proven in the largest real-time core processing systems in production at financial institutions worldwide, as well as in a range of healthcare institutions using EHR systems. It also can scale down for use in small clinics, virtual machines and software appliances.

Hadoop

The 'Apache' Hadoop software library provides an open source framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using a simple programming model. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage. Read More »

Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)

Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a free, online repository of high quality digital images and health education materials. Medical educators can discover, download, and re-use over 22,000 medical education resources that are in the public domain. Read More »

Health Information Exchange Open Source (HIEOS)

Health Information Exchange Open Source (HIEOS™) is an open source solution offering supported by General Dynamics. This open-architecture platform enables secure health information exchange between disparate health communities (e.g. HIE, RHIO), thereby enabling care providers to have longitudinal perspectives of patients' health records. Read More »

Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project (HCUP)

The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a growing family of health care databases and related software tools and products developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).  HCUP includes the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the U.S. Read More »

HealthCare.Gov

HealthCare.Gov is a U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) web site providing a wide range of health information and tools for use by consumers. Read More »

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 »

Hospital OS

Hospital OS is an open source integrated Hospital Information System developed and widely used in Thailand.  This client/server software solution was developed by using Java. Hospital OS was designed and developed by Open Source Technology Co., Ltd., in 2001. They are a social entrepreneur and open source software development company located in Phuket, Thailand.

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Hospital Schedule

Hospital Schedule is a open source application tool for planning and scheduling of hospital employees that has been developed and deployed in Thailand.

HOSxP

HOSxP is a hospital information system, including an Electronic Health Record (EHR) module, that is in use in over 70 hospitals across Thailand. The software aims to ease the healthcare workflow from health centers, small sanatoriums, to larger hospitals. Distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL). Read More »