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Open Source Technology in Healthcare

November 18, 2009

Open source is an innovative software development approach that allows accessibility to a software’s source code to the general public, under moderate or zero copyright limitations. By providing access to the software source code, an open source project provides an opportunity for designing, modifying, customizing, and distributing the software. This helps the users overcome the challenges of product rigidity, vendor lock-in, complex licensing terms, as well as cost related issues.

Other sections in this article:
- Introduction to the concept
- Open source in health care
- Open source EHR
- Open source EHR architecture
- Open source in imaging informatics
- Recent Developments in Open Source Healthcare Technology Across Major Markets
- Open Source as an Alternative to Proprietary Software in Healthcare

This review article was published in the July-September 2009 issue of the HealthNEWS.Direct! magazine.

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Written by The HealthNEWS.Direct! Team · Filed Under HIS, Health IT, Insights, Open Source, Vendor Watch, eHealth 

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