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ArcHub: Medical Technology

  • Wikipedia list of open source healthcare systems
  • LibreHealth.io - LibreHealth is collaborative community for free & open source software projects in Health IT, and is a member project of Software Freedom Conservancy.
  • Medical - a free, centralized Health and Hospital Information System that provides the following functionality: Electronic Medical Record (EMR), Hospital Information System (HIS), Health Information System.
  • Tidepool - open source diabetes software makes diabetes software more accessible, but also their employee handbooks and kanban boards. Tidepool has developed an ecosystem of products that integrate diabetes data from over 60 different insulin pumps, blood glucose meters, and continuous glucose monitors into a single, intuitive user interface. People with diabetes, their care teams, and clinicians can view and analyse data, then discuss potential treatment adjustments.
  • FreeMED – an opensource electronic medical record and practice management system which has been developed since 1999.
  • GNUmed – its goal is to produce and to make available free (as in liberated) open source software to help providers better document, understand, plan, and manage their patients’ health, and health care delivery, at longitudinal points of care.
  • MEDILIG – Medical Life Guard: An EHR/EMR cross-platform software for the design, implementation, and use of autonomous, open, database models for multilingual medical knowledge management systems from primary care to continuing care.
  • OpenEMR – a Free and Open Source electronic health records and medical practice management application that can run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and many other platforms. OpenEMR is ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR certified and is one of the most popular open source electronic medical records in use today.
  • Office Manager – encompassing office management healthcare software for medical practices, doctors groups, DMEs, retailers, etc. It does User/patient management, point of sale, scheduling, sign-in, inventory, insurance claims, accounting, etc.
  • OpenMRS – a software platform and a reference application which enables design of a customized medical records system with no programming knowledge (although medical and systems analysis knowledge is required). It is a common platform upon which medical informatics efforts in developing countries can be built.
  • VISTA – an open source medical records system. It keeps track of all of information concerning a patient’s care – no matter where in the country they go. Medications, pharmacies, doctor visits, dates, diagnosis.
  • OSCAR EMR – a proven Electronic Medical Record (EMR) designed to help improve health care from individual to population health levels while reducing costs. OSCAR, which currently supports over 1.5 million patients across Canada, offers an extremely versatile, browser-based, EMR with high clinical functionality and advanced research capabilities.
  • THIRRA – short for “Telehealth and Health Informatics in Rural & Remote Areas,” THIRRA is an IDRC-funded project that provides EHR capabilities and also allows government officials to track outbreaks of infectious diseases. It’s currently being used in Malaysia, Nepal, the Philippines and Sri Lanka.
  • ZEPRS – Zambia Electronic Perinatal Record System (ZEPRS) is being used by clinics and the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia to improve patient care. The University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) Center for Research in Women’s Health (CRWH), RTI, and the Center for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) developed ZEPRS with local medical expertise and project engagement from the Lusaka Urban Health District, Central Board of Health and funding support from the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation.
  • OpenBoxes – Open-source supply chain management system designed to manage supplies and medications for healthcare facilities and disaster relief efforts.
  • OpenLMIS– a supply chain management tool for the healthcare sector, but it was specifically designed for use in low-resource areas in Africa to ensure medications and medical supplies get to patients in need. Its API-driven approach enables users to customize and extend OpenLMIS while maintaining a connection to the common codebase.
  • OpenClinic GA – an open source integrated hospital information management system covering management of administrative, financial, clinical, lab, x-ray, pharmacy, meals distribution and other data. Extensive statistical and reporting capabilities. 17 implementations in Rwanda, 5 in DRC, 4 in Mali and 5 in Burundi covering hospitals with 5 up to 700 users. Country specific localizations for Albania, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Burundi, Congo-Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, Uganda, Rwanda, Sri Lanka and Tanzania. Follow-up OpenClinic implementations on http://www.globalhealthbarometer.net.
  • Bika LIMS – combines web content management and workflow processing for a one-stop ISO 17025 ready web-based LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System). One of the development sponsosr is the Department of Trade and Industry in the Republic of South Africa.
  • 3D Slicer – offers DICOM file viewing, interactive segmentation, volume rendering and other capabilities. It can work with images from MRI, CT, US, nuclear medicine, and microscopy.
  • AMIDE – a completely free tool for viewing, analyzing, and registering volumetric medical imaging data sets.
  • ANTs (Advanced Normalization Tools) – helps doctors and researchers make maps of brains.
  • BioImageXD – a free open source software package for analyzing, processing and visualizing multi-dimensional microscopy images. It’s a collaborative project, designed and developed by microscopists, cell biologists and software engineers from the Universities of Jyväskylä and Turku in Finland, Max Planck Institute CBG in Dresden, Germany and collaborators worldwide.
  • OsiriX – downloaded more than 1,000 times every day, OsiriX claims to be “the most widely used DICOM viewer in the world.”
  • Open Source Malaria project – is trying a different approach to curing malaria. Guided by open source principles, everything is open and anyone can contribute. 
  • vetclinic – web based Veterinary Clinic Management software. Includes clients, pets, inventory (especially medicine), appointments, document management, invoicing, grooming, and boarding.
  • Kailona - an extensible, customizable and secure platform for your private electronic health records (EHR). It is available as Nextcloud application. It helps you to organize, manage and visualize your behavioral and health data such as activities, vital signs, blood pressure, etc. powered by the awesome features of HIPAA and GDPR compliant Nextcloud.