Assuming
debate moves beyond "You're stupid. No you are," health care reform
will require new ways of lowering costs and de-siloing tens of thousands of
sickly complex systems. Even if the current overhaul stalls (and maybe
especially so), we'll still need fresh collaboration, technology and
ideas.
With a tip of the nursing cap to a
longer list on the Medicine 3.0 blog, here are 10 open source medical efforts whose
long-term diagnosis is positive.
1. EpiSPIDER (below):
Interactive mashup of worldwide epidemics using expert sources and generally
available news.
2. HealthCloud Office:
Amazon-based open suite for small medical practices.
3. IndivoHealth:
Personally controlled health record system that lets patients own secure copies
of their complete medical records. Developed by Children's Hospital Boston.
4. i2b2: Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside
is an NIH-funded National Center for Biomedical Computing based at Partners
HealthCare System. i2b2 is developing a scalable informatics framework to
bridge data from clinical research and basic science research to better
understand genetic bases of hypertension, obesity, arthritis and other complex
diseases.
5. ClearHealth:
Medical software designed by clinics and hospitals and powered by open-source
software. ClearHealth includes modules for document storage, customizable
reporting/forms, lab results and prescription management.
6. Tolven Institute: A worldwide collaborative creating a health
care platform on open source and open systems; led by executives from
Accenture, Booz Allen, Duke Medical and HealthSystems Group.
7. Medsphere: A
community gathering place for health care administrators, clinicians,
developers and enthusiasts to interact, share and collaborate.
8. HealthFrameWorks:
An OpenHealth Services specification that leverages the many existing
standards for health record representations (e.g., HL7/CDA, CCD and CCR) and report representations (e.g.,
PDF and HTML) to provide a simple standardized infrastructure for Web-based and
local services.
9. SMIViewer (below): Free visual data analysis tool for
research and teaching.
10. PLos Medicine: A peer-reviewed open-access journal
published by the Public Library of Science.
Are there others
that should be included?
