List of open source healthcare software

The following is a list of software packages and applications licensed under an open source license or in the public domain for use in the healthcare industry.

Software that is freely available, but not licensed under an open source license should be placed in the List of freeware health software.

Categories

Public Health and Biosurveillance

• Epi Info is public domain statistical software for epidemiology developed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler is a tool, originally developed at IBM Research, for modeling and visualizing the spread of infectious diseases.

Dental Management and Patient Record

• Open Dental is the first Open Source dental management package with very broad capabilities on record management, patient scheduling and dental office management.

Electronic health or medical record

(In alphabetical order)

• FreeMED is a practice management and electronic and computer records system. It allows the tracking of medical data, in detail, with preservation not just of the diagnosis but the reasons for medical encounters. FreeMED is released under the GPL
• (French) FreeMedForms is a full set of medical applications (EMR, prescriber, drug interaction checker)…). The project is administrated and developed by a community of medical doctors and computer scientists. The whole applications are freely available and are released with the full code source (GPLv3).
• GNUmed is a WxPython application that uses PostgreSQL.
• GNU Health (aka "Medical") is a Free, centralized, highly scalable Health and Hospital Information System
• Hospital OS Open source hospital information system in Thai
• HOSxP
• Mirth (software) is an open source cross-platform HL7 interface engine that enables bi-directional sending of HL7 messages between systems and applications over multiple transports.
• OpenEMR an open-source Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software.
• OpenMRS is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise EMR framework. Extensible and scalable EMR based on Java.
• OSCAR McMaster an open-source Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software. The billing component of the software is specialized for the needs of the Canadian health care providers.
• SmartCare
• THIRRA (EHR) is a web based EHR application designed primarily for narrowband. It was released under the Mozilla Public License and includes communicable diseases biosurveillance feature. THIRRA uses PHP5, CodeIgniter and PostgreSQL.
• VistA — Veterans Administrations integrated Electronic Health Record system available for non-governmental use as OpenVista or WorldVistA.
• ZEPRS The ZEPRS application is an electronic patient record system that enables clinicians to enter data from patient visits using a web browser.

Medical Practice Management Software

• ClearHealth covers the five major areas of practice operations including scheduling, billing, EMR, HIPAA Security and accounts receivable. It offers a fully comprehensive system which now offers tools like E-Prescribing, Drug Interactions, Electronic Labs and Lab ordering. It is the largest open source healthcare solution serving more than 500 sites including the Primary Care Coalition network in MD with 50 sites and around 100,000 patients.
• Elexis An Eclipse RCP program for all aspects of a medical practice: electronic medical record (EMR), laboratory findings etc., as well as accounting, billing (swiss TARMED-System, other systems to be developped) and other daily work.
• FreeMED is a practice management and electronic and computer records system. It allows the tracking of medical data, in detail, with preservation not just of the diagnosis but the reasons for medical encounters. FreeMED is released under the LGPL GNU license. FreeMED is an HIPAA compliant FOSS Practice Management System that handles billing.
• GNU Health (aka "Medical") is a Free, centralized, highly scalable Health and Hospital Information System
• MedinTux MedinTux is a French medical practice management system, with a web interface as well as a desktop one, that has been initially to manage a hospital emergency department. Being very modular, it has been extended to run also many different smaller practices. It works on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
• Open Dental Dental practice management
• OpenEMR A free medical practice management, electronic medical records, prescription writing, and medical billing application.

Health System Management

• DHIS Open-source district health management information system and data warehouse (license: BSD license)
• HRHIS Open-source human resource for health information system for management of human resources for health developed by University of Dar es Salaam, Department of Computer Science, for Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (Tanzania) and funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) (license: GPLv3)

Imaging/Visualization

• Drishti is a volumetric visualisation package for viewing Computer Tomography data. Able to import DICOM image stacks.
• Endrov Image and data viewer and editor
• ITK Segmentation and Registration Toolkit
• InVesalius 3D Medical Imaging Reconstruction software
• ITK-SNAP Interactive software for 3D image navigation, annotation and automatic segmentation
• MicroDicom Free DICOM viewer for Windows
• OsiriX - 3D DICOM Medical Viewer for Mac OS X. Complete DICOM Viewer with DICOM network support
• ParaView Large Scale Visualization tool
• 3DSlicer Platform for medical image visualization and algorithm development. DICOM support, segmentation and registration, Diffusion MRI processing, and image guided surgery support.
• Voreen Volume Rendering Engine—a library for visually exploring volume data sets. DICOM is supported and Voreen is used in medical visualization as well as for visualizing electron microscopy data.
• VTK Visualization Toolkit
• Xebra (medical imaging software)
• GIMIAS Workflow-oriented environment focused on biomedical image computing and simulation

Medical Information Systems

• Caisis is a web based information system for the storage and analysis of cancer patient data intended to bridge the gap between clinic and research (license: GPL)

Research

• LabKey Server is an extensible platform for integrating, analyzing and sharing all types of biomedical research data. It provides secure, web-based access to research data and includes a customizable data processing pipeline.
• OpenClinica is an open source clinical trial software platform with electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical data management capabilities.

Mobile / Handheld Devices

• Ushahidi Allows people to submit crisis information through text messaging using a mobile phone, email or web form. Displays information in map view.
• SMS for Life is program which uses an open source solution to assist in the delivery of malaria vaccine in Tanzania through the use of cell phones and mapping technology. Developed by IBM, Novartis and Vodafone

Out of the box distributions

• BioLinux
• Debian-Med

Interoperability testing

• The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has developed an open-source program called Laika to test EHR software for compliance with CCHIT interoperability standards.

See also

Free software portal

• Electronic medical record
• eHealth
• mHealth
• Health Informatics
• Hospital information systems
• List of freeware health software
• List of Open Source Bioinformatics software
• Gello Expression Language

References

External links

• Medfloss.org - Comprehensive and structured database of Free and Open Source software projects for health care (incl. publications, service providers, events etc.)
• Open-Source EHR Systems for Ambulatory Care: A Market Assessment (California HealthCare Foundation, January 2008).
• European Federation for Medical Informatics Libre/Free Open Source Software Working Group (EFMI LIFOSS WG)
• International Medical Informatics Association Open Source Working group (IMIA OS WG)
• American Medical Informatics Association Open Source Working group (AMIA OS WG)
• Open Source Software for Public Health