Healthcare

The Alembic Foundation promotes the use of Open Source to address significant challenges in society. As its first project, Alembic launched the Aurion Project to build upon the work of the federal government through CONNECT. Aurion extends the value of CONNECT by creating a forum for public and private organizations to build standards-based, Open Source health information exchange software. Read more.

popHealth is an open source tool that allows healthcare providers to calculate quality measures. A quality measure is a calculation of the number of individuals in a population that meet a specific standard of care. This ONC sponsored effort integrates with electronic health record systems using standards based patient summary documents to calculate and report on quality measures. Read more.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) commissioned a Study and Report on Open Source Health Information Technology (health IT) as part of its obligation under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH). This represented the first time the Federal Government has ever invested resources into a study of open source EHRs Read more.

Indivo (http://indivohealth.org) is an open-source health record platform, developed by the Children's Hospital Informatics Program in Boston, that empowers patients to take control of their personal health record. It is the "secure Facebook platform for personal health," enabling the development of substitutable personal health applications through which patients view and annotate their data. Read more.

Case study in using open data and open source systems to enable research in personalized medicine. Will show how we leverage publicly available data along with clinical and experimental data from collaborators in 5 different countries to advance disease detection and personalized medicine. Read more.

The federal government created Meaningful Use certification to help promote the widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records. The first and only open source system to receive the certification is ClearHealth under the GPL. We'll take a crash course in Meaningful Use and what it takes to get compliant using open source systems. Read more.

Most medical devices today use proprietary/custom software platforms (operating systems, messaging framework, alarms, etc.). This talk will present the Shahid's recent work using FOSS to build safety-critical medical devices and the challenges associated with such solutions. Shahid will present architectures considered, the benefits and detriments, and findings of real-world FOSS implementations. Read more.

A survey of open source software for helping find patterns in pathologies and generating physician recommendations, with a focus on the presenter's Fathom, a decision support framework. Read more.

What do you get when you mashup Open Source Healthcare software, Quantified Self, Behavioral Economics, and Open Data APIs? Simple, the ability to hack yourself. Hacking isn't "breaking in". Hacking is taking a technology far beyond presumed limitations. But what if the "technology" was your own body and mind? Welcome to Programmable Self. Read more.

At the 2010 OSCON, Roberts-Hoffman Software, Inc.(RHS) selected Tolven's open source framework to develop a hospital electronic health record plug-in. RHS will focus on the emerging trend for vendors to collaborate in an open source model to address the many challenges of healthcare. RHS will share collaborating with Tolven and Lexicomp to meet governmental healthare regulations. Read more.

Do you want to enable your doctor to send your health information through an e-mail in secure way? Well, the Direct Project enables better patient care, and reduces cost of Healthcare by providing a standard and simple mechanism to share Healthcare information between providers, organizations and consumers. The project is an exemplary collaboration of public and private sector. Read more.