Difference between revisions of "Free and Open Source EMRs"
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[http://www.vista-office.org/ Vista Office] - Soon to be released CMS sponsered EHR and Practice Management System | [http://www.vista-office.org/ Vista Office] - Soon to be released CMS sponsered EHR and Practice Management System | ||
Revision as of 15:59, 25 November 2005
Free (Libre) and Open Source Software is the combined ideology of two software development camps. The first, is the Free Software Movement. The Free Software Foundation believes that software licenses should not be used to control people in inappropriate ways. (They use the word "free" as in freedom, not "free" as in no cost). The UK acronym is FLOSS.
The Open Source movement is a group that believes that software is best developed in an open collaborative manner but that some of the politics and philosophy around the Free Software Foundation offered leverage to proprietary software producers to give misleading impressions of FLOSS. All Libre software is Open Source, but not all Open Source Software complies with the FSF licences making it Libre. The essential element is Copyleft.
The coiners of the Open Source title are prominent in Open Source Initiave, a group that evaluates software licenses for compatibility with this collaborative development.
The two groups often collaborate, the most popular FLOSS license is the Gnu General Public License (GPL) which was developed by the Free Software Foundation.
GPLMedicine.org advocates the exclusive use of the GPL in Electronic Medical Record Systems
LinuxMedNews.com is the community blog of the Free and Open Source Medical Software Community. Any news regarding the Free and Open Source Medical Software community usually appears first there or on the OpenHealth mailing list. The community is beginning to gain traction withing the Medical Informatics community especially after the creation of the AMIA Open Source Working Group
So far there are several very important projects within the Free and Open Source space.
MirrorMed - EHR and Practice Management System
FreeMED - EHR and Practice Management System
OpenEMR - EHR and Practice Management System
FreeB - Medical Billing Engine
Vista Office - Soon to be released CMS sponsered EHR and Practice Management System
WorldVista - EHR and Hospital Management System
One EMR that is gratuit but not Open Source is VersaForm EMR Basic Edition. It is available by download at VersaForm and is supported by the publisher.
