30 Open source ( The TOP ) Medical and Health care projects

06.08.2011 · Posted in Articles, DICOM, DNA - Genetics, EMR - EHR, Epidemiology, HAIs, Imaging - Scanning, Medicine2.0, Molecular biology, Open source, Software, Statistics, Surveillance

Open source , projects are the most widely supported world wide , in many fields , but somehow , Open source is not active concept in medical and health care area , though there are many famous widely used open source medical projects , even though those projects don’t have powerful communities even they have many users world wide .

In this list i added the most used Medical and Health care open source projects .

1- Care2x ( Open source , web based , cross platform ) HIS ” Hospital Information System ” – link – :
Its a community developed open source system for Integrated health care environment .

It has a HIS ( Hospital Information System ) feature among other useful featuresneeded . Care2X is written in interpreted language , which means its platform independent can run on any platform ( Windows , Linux , OSX ) .

Translations : Care2x is translated by its users community to many languages including French , German , Arabic , Spanish , Norwegian , Italian , with some other languages their translation in progress .

Documentation : Cares2x is well documented for users , developers , and translators . The wiki documentation is rich and full of tutorials and tips . ( Care2X documentation)

Plugins : Care2x has set of useful plugin , which are available for download in Care2x web site .

2 – PatientOS – EMR http://www.patientos.org/ :

PatientOS – is a Free , Open Source and Multi-platform EMR ( Windows , Linux , OSX ) .

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3 – GNUmed – EMR – LINK :

is a Linux Based Open source EMR , working as Client/Server application .

4 – World Vista – EHR ” Electronic Health Record ” – Link :

World Vista is a health and medical record open source project , using Server/Client , working under linux and windows operating systems .

5 – Hospital OS – HIS ” Hospital Information System ” – Link :

Open source , powerful , supports english and Thia , popular open source , free system in Thialand .

6 – HOSxP – HIS ” Hospital Information System ” – link – :

HOSxP uses a client-server architecture. For the database server, it is claimed to run on many RDBMS, like MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Interbase/Firebird.

9 – Sofa ” Statistics ” – link :

SOFA

Open source platform for statistics , alternative for SPSS , and works on Windows , Linux and Mac OSX .

10 - IFrIT ” Visualization ” - link :

IFrIT : is an open source visualization application built for general purpose , built on the famous Visialization ToolKit ” VTK ” , and uses QT library for GUI .

Avogadro

11 - Avogadro “ molecular editor ” – link :

Avogadro : Open source advanced molecular editor for Windows , Linux & Mac OSX

12 - PSPP ” Statistics ” – link :

PSPP

Open source Statistics application for Linux , Windows , OSX and UNIX , Alternative for SPSS .

13 - Bowtie ” Genome ” – link :

Open soure , Fast , ( Windows , MacOSX and Linux ) package for aligning short DNA sequence reads to large genomes .

14 - Epi info ” Epidemology ” – link :

Epi Info

Open source legacy epidemiology statistical software is coming to Linux.

15 - Kradview ” DICOM Viewer ” – link :

KadView DICOM

Open source DICOM Viewer for Linux .

16 – Cycle ” Calender ” – link :

Open source Calender for Women – Linux .

17 – Bika – LIMS ” Laboratory Information Management System ” -link :

BIKA LIMS

Bika is a Plone ” The web python development framework ” based project , its very flexible , customizable , Licensed under GPL .

For more information about Bika LIMS ” laboratory information management system ” here .

18 -GenExplorer – ” Education – Molecular Biology ” – link :

Open source Educational tool for simulation Molecular biology .

19 - RODS – “ SURVEILLANCE ” Link :

RODS " Surveillance "

Open source Java Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance for public health .

20 - OpenELIS – LIMS ” Laboratory Informtion Management System ” - link :

Open Elis LIMS

Free , Open source , Web based Enterprise Laboratory Information management System – LIMS

21 - LOVD – Genetics – Link :

lovd Genetics

Open source free and web based DNA variation database .

22 - MITK 3M3 – DICOM – Link :

Free DICOM viewer and Medical Image Analysis for Windows .

23 - InVesalius – ” Visulazation & DICOM” – link :

pen source 3D Surgical Planning for Windows and Linux .

24 - IRAD – DICOM – link :

IRAD DICOM

Open source DICOM viewer for MacOSX .

25 - OsiriX – ” DICOM & PACS ” link :

Open source PACS Workstation and DICOM Viewer for your iPhone .

26 - Skittle – ” Genetics ” – Link :

Skittle Genetics

Open Source Genome Viewer – Windows , Linux and Mac OSX .

27 - Nukak3D ” DICOM & PACS ” – Link :

Open source Medical Image platform for Windows and Linux – with Remote DICOM and PACS .

28 – FreeLIMS – LIMS ” Laborartoy Information managemt System ” – Link :

FreeLIMS : is an open source LIMS ” Laboratory Information Management System ” licensed under GPL license , works for Linux , Windows and Mac OSX . Review .

29 - Electronic Laboratory Notebook – LIMS – Link :

The Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) – a collaborative, web-based analog of the paper notebook. The ELN can be used to share and record text, images, 3-D molecular structures, live graphs, etc. and can be extended to support additional data types. built using Java and Perl and released under Open source license .

30 - Nukak3D – ” DICOM & PACS ” – LINK :

Open source Medical Image platform for Windows and Linux – with Remote DICOM and PACS