List of open-source health software#Mobile devices

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The following is a list of notable software packages and applications licensed under an open-source license or in the public domain for use in the health care industry.

Public health and biosurveillance

Electronic records and medical practice management

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scope="col" rowspan="2"| Name

! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Maintainer

! scope="col" rowspan="2"| License

! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Programming language/
Software stack

! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Operating system

! colspan="4" scope="colgroup" | Features

! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Target setting

scope="col"| Electronic health record

! scope="col"| HIS?

! scope="col"| Practice management?

! scope="col"| Other

{{rh}}| ClearHealth

| ClearHealth Inc.

| {{GPL-lic}}{{cite web |date=30 January 2013 |title=clearhealth/LICENSE |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/clearhealth/clearhealth/blob/master/LICENSE }}

| PHP, JavaScript{{cite web |title=clearhealth/clearhealth |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/clearhealth/clearhealth |access-date=30 June 2017 }}

| {{dunno}}

| {{yes|EMR}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{yes|Scheduling & billing}}

| HIPAA security

|

{{rh}}| ERPNext

| Frappe Technologies

| {{GPL-lic}}{{cite web |date=29 January 2016 |title=ERPNext Healthcare/LICENSE |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/frappe/erpnext/tree/develop/erpnext/healthcare }}

| Python; JavaScript

| {{dunno}}

| {{yes|EMR}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

{{rh}}| GaiaEHR

| {{dunno}}

| {{GPL-lic}}{{cite web |date=29 January 2016 |title=gaiaehr/LICENSE |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/gaiaehr/gaiaehr/blob/master/LICENSE }}

| PHP & Ext JS

| {{dunno}}

| {{yes|EHR}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

|

|

{{rh}}| GNUmed

| GNUmed

| {{GPL-lic}}{{cite web |date=10 October 2011 |title=Gnumed FAQs |website=Gnumed |url=http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/GnumedFaqs }}

| Python (wxPython); PostgreSQL

| Cross-platform

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{dunno}}

|

|

{{rh}}| GNU Health

| GNU Health (GNU Project)

| {{GPL-lic}}{{cite web |title=GNU Health - Summary |website=Savannah |url=http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/health |access-date=29 June 2017 }}

| Python; PostgreSQL

| Cross-platform

| {{yes|EMR}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

|

{{rh}}| Hospital OS

| {{dunno}}

| {{GPL-lic}}{{cite web |date=10 April 2013 |title=Hospital OS |website=SourceForge |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/hospital-os/ }}

| Java

| Linux & Windows

| {{dunno}}

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

|

| Small Thai hospitals

{{rh}}| HOSxP

| {{dunno}}

| {{free|Public domain}}{{cite web |date=17 April 2013 |title=HOSxP |website=SourceForge |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/hosxp/ }}

| Delphi/Kylix

| Windows

| {{yes|EHR}}

| {{yes}}

| {{partial|Financial}}

|

| Thai hospitals

{{rh}} class="table-rh" | MedinTux

| MedinTux team

| {{free|CeCILL}}{{cite web |title=À propos |trans-title=About |website=Medintux |language=fr |url=https://medintux.org/about/ |access-date=30 June 2017 }}

| C++{{cite web |date=29 June 2012 |title=dev |website=Medintux |language=fr |url=https://wiki.medintux.org/doku.php?id=dev }}

| Cross-platform{{cite web |title=Installation |website=Medintux |language=fr |url=https://medintux.org/installation/ |access-date=10 July 2017 }}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{yes}}

| Modular design; web{{cite web |date=13 July 2013 |title=MedWebTux |website=Medintux |language=fr |url=https://wiki.medintux.org/doku.php?id=medwebtux }} & desktop interfaces

| French hospital emergency departments & smaller practices

{{rh}} class="table-rh" | OpenEMR

| {{dunno}}

| {{GPL-lic}}{{cite web |date=6 May 2017 |title=OpenEMR Features |website=OpenEMR |url=http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Features }}

| PHP, JavaScript; MySQL{{cite web |date=17 April 2017 |title=Development Policies |website=OpenEMR Project Wiki |url=http://open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Development_Policies }}

| Cross-platform

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{yes}}

| Patient portal & prescriptions

|

{{rh}} class="table-rh" | OpenHospital

| Informatici Senza Frontiere

| {{GPL-lic}}{{cite web |date=4 June 2017 |title=Open Hospital |website=SourceForge |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/openhospital/ }}

| Java

| Cross-platform

| {{yes|EMR}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

| Small rural hospitals

{{rh}} class="table-rh" | OpenMRS

| OpenMRS Inc.

| {{free|MPL with Healthcare Disclaimer}}{{cite web |title=OpenMRS License Information |website=OpenMRS |url=http://openmrs.org/license/ |access-date=29 June 2017 }}

| Java, JavaScript

| Cross-platform

| {{yes|EMR}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| Extensible & scalable

| Clinic, Hospital System, Country Level Health System

{{rh}} class="table-rh" | OSCAR McMaster

| {{dunno}}

| {{GPL-lic}}{{cite web |title=Welcome |website=OSCAR User's Manual |url=http://oscarmanual.org/home |access-date=29 June 2017 }}

| Java

| {{dunno}}

| {{yes|EMR}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{partial|Billing}}

| Web interface; PHR

| Canadian healthcare providers

{{rh}} class="table-rh" | Spinnaker

| Dental IT Ltd

| {{GPL-lic}}{{cite web |title=Welcome to Spinnaker |website=Spinnaker |publisher=Dental IT Ltd. |url=https://www.dentalit.ltd.uk/spinnaker/welcome |access-date=30 June 2017 }}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{yes|Dental record}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{yes}}

| Open Dental fork

| UK dental practices{{cite web |title=Spinnaker |publisher=Dental IT Ltd. |url=https://www.dentalit.ltd.uk/spinnaker/ |access-date=30 June 2017 }}

{{rh}} class="table-rh" | THIRRA

| {{dunno}}

| {{free|MPL}}{{cite web |date=31 January 2017 |title=THIRRA Electronic Health Records Systems |website=SourceForge |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/thirra/ }}

| PHP5 (CodeIgniter), JavaScript (jQuery); PostgreSQL

| {{dunno}}

| {{yes|EHR}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| Disease surveillance; web interface

| Ambulatory care & public health

{{rh}} class="table-rh" | VistA

| US Department of Veterans Affairs

| {{free}}{{cite web |title=Distributions of VistA |website=WorldVistA |url=https://www.worldvista.org|access-date=1 November 2021 }}

| MUMPS

| {{dunno}}

| {{yes|EHR}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

|

| Veterans Health Administration facilities

{{rh}} class="table-rh" | ZEPRS Zcore

| Research Triangle Institute

| {{free|Apache}}{{cite web |title=Licensing |website=ICTedge |url=http://www.ictedge.org/node/793 |archive-date=10 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910045625/http://www.ictedge.org/node/793 |url-status=dead }}

| Java

| {{dunno}}

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| Web interface

|

Health system management

  • iHRIS is an integrated Human Resource Information System developed by IntraHealth International under USAID-funded CapacityPlus project and deployed in more than 20 countries in the world.{{cite web |title=About iHRIS |website=iHRIS |url=https://www.ihris.org/about/ |access-date=3 July 2017 }} iHRIS is distributed under the GNU GPL.{{cite web |title=Frequently Asked Questions |website=iHRIS |url=https://www.ihris.org/ihris-suite/faq/ |access-date=30 June 2017 }}
  • DHIS is a district health management information system and data warehouse. DHIS2 is released under the BSD license.{{cite web |title=DHIS 2 Overview |website=DHIS2 |url=https://www.dhis2.org/overview |access-date=30 June 2017 }}
  • HRHIS is a human resource for health information system for management of human resources for health developed by University of Dar es Salaam college of information and communication technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, for Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (Tanzania) and funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

Disease management

  • Breathing Games is a series of research-backed, co-created games to prevent, diagnose and treat chronic respiratory diseases. They are released under the Peer Production licence.{{cite web |date=17 December 2016 |title=Get Involved |website=Breathing Games |url=http://breathinggames.net/?q=en/get-involved }}
  • Nightscout is a collection of software tools, including mobile clients, to enable DIY cloud-based continuous glucose monitoring "…for informational and educational purposes."{{cite web |title=The Nightscout Project |url=http://www.nightscout.info/ |access-date=3 July 2017 }} Individual components are available under various open-source licenses, including the GNU GPL,{{cite web |title=android-uploader/LICENSE |date=27 September 2014 |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/nightscout/android-uploader/blob/master/LICENSE }}
    {{cite web |title=lasso/LICENSE |date=2 July 2015 |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/nightscout/lasso/blob/master/LICENSE }}
    {{cite web |title=chrome-uploader/LICENSE.md |date=24 November 2014 |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/nightscout/chrome-uploader/blob/master/LICENSE.md }}
    {{cite web |title=windows-phone-app/LICENSE |date=29 November 2014 |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/nightscout/windows-phone-app/blob/master/LICENSE }}
    GNU AGPL,{{cite web |title=cgm-remote-monitor/LICENSE |date=25 September 2014 |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/nightscout/cgm-remote-monitor/blob/master/LICENSE }}
    {{cite web |title=process-controls/LICENSE |date=11 January 2015 |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/nightscout/process-controls/blob/master/LICENSE }}
    MIT License,{{cite web |title=nightscout-apple-watch/LICENSE |date=23 June 2015 |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/nightscout/nightscout-apple-watch/blob/master/LICENSE }} and BSD licenses.{{cite web |title=fda-presubmission/LICENSE |date=24 June 2014 |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/nightscout/fda-presubmission/blob/master/LICENSE }}
    {{cite web |title=cgm-pebble/LICENSE |date=22 February 2014 |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/nightscout/cgm-pebble/blob/master/LICENSE }}
  • Tidepool makes open-source tools to help people better manage diabetes. They have received FDA clearance for their Loop insulin dosing app.{{cite web |date=8 December 2023 |title=tidepool-org/Loop: An automated insulin delivery app template for iOS, built on LoopKit |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/tidepool-org/Loop }}{{cite web |date=4 January 2023 |title=Tidepool Loop has received FDA Clearance! |website=Tidepool |url=https://www.tidepool.org/blog/tidepool-loop-has-received-fda-clearance }}

Imaging/visualization

  • CamBA is a collection of neuroimaging pipelines distributed under the GNU GPL.{{cite web |title=CamBA: Tool/Resource Info |website=NITRC |publisher=Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse |url=http://www.nitrc.org/projects/camba/ |access-date =3 July 2017 }}
  • Drishti is a volumetric visualization package for viewing computer tomography data. Able to import DICOM image stacks. It is available under the MIT license.{{cite web |date=1 February 2016 |title=drishti/license.md |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/nci/drishti/blob/master/license.md }}
  • Endrov Image and data viewer and editor. It is available under the BSD license.{{cite web |date=3 January 2016 |title=Endrov |website=SourceForge |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/vwb/ }}
  • GIMIAS is a workflow-oriented environment focused on biomedical image computing and simulation. It is available under a BSD-style license.{{cite web |title=License |website=GIMIAS |url=http://www.gimias.org/index.php/support/license |access-date=30 June 2017 }}
  • Ginkgo CADx Cross-platform open source DICOM viewer and dicomizer. It is available under the GNU LGPL.{{cite web |title=Ginkgo CADx |url=http://ginkgo-cadx.com/en/ |access-date=30 June 2017 }}
  • Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) v4.0+ is released under the Apache license.{{cite web |title=Copyright and License |website=ITK |publisher=Kitware |url=https://itk.org/ITK/project/license.html }}
  • InVesalius 3D medical imaging reconstruction software. It is available under the GNU GPL.{{cite web |date=10 June 2009 |title=invesalius3/LICENSE.txt |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/invesalius/invesalius3/blob/master/LICENSE.txt }}
  • ITK-SNAP Interactive software for 3D image navigation, annotation, and automatic segmentation. It is available under the GNU GPL.{{cite web |title=ITK-SNAP |website=NITRC |publisher=Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse |url=https://www.nitrc.org/projects/itk-snap/ |access-date=30 June 2017 }}{{cite web |date=1 December 2014 |title=License |website=MITK |url=http://mitk.org/wiki/License }}
  • Orthanc – Lightweight, RESTful DICOM server for medical imaging. It is available under the GNU GPLv3.{{cite web |title=Download |website=Orthanc |url=http://www.orthanc-server.com/download.php |access-date=30 June 2017 }}
  • ParaView large-scale visualization tool. It is available under the BSD license.{{cite web |title=ParaView License |website=ParaView |url=https://www.paraview.org/paraview-license/ |access-date=30 June 2017 }}
  • 3DSlicer Platform for medical image visualization and algorithm development. DICOM support, segmentation and registration, Diffusion MRI processing, and image guided surgery support. It is available under a BSD-style license.{{cite web |date=24 November 2016 |title=License |website=SlicerWiki |url=https://www.slicer.org/wiki/License }}
  • Voreen volume rendering engine—a library for visually exploring volume data sets. DICOM is supported and Voreen is used in medical visualization as well as for visualizing electron microscopy data. It is available under the GNU GPL.{{cite web |title=About Voreen |website=Voreen |url=https://www.uni-muenster.de/Voreen/ |access-date=30 June 2017 }}
  • VTK is a visualization toolkit available under the BSD license.{{cite web |title=License |website=VTK |url=http://www.vtk.org/licensing/ |access-date=30 June 2017 }}
  • Studierfenster (StudierFenster) is a free, non-commercial Open Science client/server-based Medical Imaging Processing (MIP) online framework.{{cite web |title=License |website=StudierFenster |url=http://studierfenster.icg.tugraz.at/ |access-date=5 October 2020 }}
  • Medical open network for AI is a framework for Deep learning in healthcare imaging that is open-source available under the Apache Licence and supported by the community.{{Cite arXiv |last1=Cardoso |first1=M. Jorge |last2=Li |first2=Wenqi |last3=Brown |first3=Richard |date=2022-10-04 |title=MONAI: An open-source framework for deep learning in healthcare |pages=1–25|class=cs.LG |eprint=2211.02701 }}

Medical information systems

  • Caisis is a web-based information system for the storage and analysis of cancer patient data intended to bridge the gap between clinic and research. It is available under the GNU GPL.{{cite web |title=Frequently Asked Questions |website=Caisis |publisher=BioDigital |url=http://www.caisis.org/faq.html |access-date=30 June 2017 }}
  • cTAKES ("clinical Text Analysis Knowledge Extraction Software") is a natural language processing system for extracting information from electronic medical record clinical free-text, an Apache top level project (TLP) since 2013, developed by the Mayo Clinic and others. It is available under the Apache license.{{cite web |title=History |website=cTAKES |publisher=Apache Software Foundation |url=http://ctakes.apache.org/history.html |access-date=30 June 2017 }}

Research

  • Galaxy is a web platform for data-intensive biology using geographically-distributed supercomputers.{{cite web |date=14 May 2015 |title=Copyrights and Licenses |website=Galaxy Wiki |url=https://moin.galaxyproject.org/Admin/License }}
  • LabKey Server is an extensible platform for integrating, analyzing and sharing all types of biomedical research data. It provides secure, web-based access to research data and includes a customizable data processing pipeline. It is distributed under the Apache license.{{cite web |title=FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions |website=LabKey Support |url=https://www.labkey.org/Documentation/wiki-page.view?name=homeFAQ&_docid=wiki%3Ae7a161d1-ed4e-1034-b734-fe851e088836 |access-date=30 June 2017 }}

Mobile devices

Source:{{cite web |date=19 August 2015 |title=glucosio-android/LICENSE |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/Glucosio/glucosio-android/blob/develop/LICENSE }}
{{cite web |date=19 August 2015 |title=glucosio-ios/LICENSE |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/Glucosio/glucosio-ios/blob/develop/LICENSE }}

  • OpenAPS is a set of development tools and documentation to support a DIY implementation of an artificial pancreas for people with Type 1 Diabetes. Common setups include the interfacing of CGMs, Insulin Pumps, and Raspberry Pi devices. It is released under the MIT license, but compatible medical devices are proprietary.{{cite web |date=26 August 2017 |title=LICENSE.txt |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/openaps/oref0/blob/master/LICENSE.txt }}
  • Ushahidi allows people to submit crisis information through text messaging using a mobile phone, email or web form. Displays information in map view. It is released under the GNU Affero General Public License, but some libraries use different licenses.{{cite web |date=18 November 2014 |title=platform/LICENSE.md |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/ushahidi/platform/blob/develop/LICENSE.md }}

Out-of-the-box distributions

  • BioLinux
  • Debian-Med is a Debian Pure Blend for use in medical and biomedical settings.{{cite web |date=5 July 2016 |title=Debian Med |website=Debian |publisher=Software in the Public Interest, Inc. |url=https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/ }}
  • Ubuntu-Med

Interoperability

  • Mirth is an open source cross-platform HL7 interface engine that enables bi-directional sending of HL7 messages between systems and applications over multiple transports. It is available under the Mozilla Public License.{{cite web |last=Brauer |first=Jacob |date=14 August 2013 |title=Source Code Contribution Guidelines |website=Mirth Connect |url=http://www.mirthcorp.com/community/wiki/display/mirth/Source+Code+Contribution+Guidelines }}{{cite web |date=19 April 2013 |title=LAIKA: EHR Testing Framework |website=SourceForge |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/laika/ }}

Specifications

  • Continuity of Care Document
  • Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a Health Level 7 interoperability specification that defines JSON and XML data formats and a RESTful API.{{cite web |title=FHIR Foundation |url=http://www.fhir.org/ |access-date=3 July 2017 }}{{cite web |date=19 April 2017 |title=Foundation Module |website=FHIR |publisher=HL7 |url=http://hl7.org/fhir/foundation-module.html }} It is available under the CC0 license.{{cite web |date=19 April 2017 |title=License and Legal Terms |website=FHIR |publisher=HL7 |url=http://hl7.org/fhir/license.html }}
  • openEHR is an open standard specification in health informatics that describes the management and storage, retrieval and exchange of health data in electronic health records (EHRs) following a two-level modeling paradigm. The OpenEHR base specification is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.{{cite web |date=29 July 2015 |title=specifications-BASE/LICENSE |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/openEHR/specifications-BASE/blob/master/LICENSE }}

See also

References

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Further reading

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  • {{cite web |title=Medical Free/Libre and Open Source Software |publisher=IMIA Open Source Working Group |url=https://www.medfloss.org/ |access-date=3 July 2017 }} {{open access}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Millard |first1=Peter S. |last2=Bru |first2=Juan |last3=Berger |first3=Christopher A. |date=4 July 2012 |title=Open-source point-of-care electronic medical records for use in resource-limited settings: systematic review and questionnaire surveys |journal=BMJ Open |volume=2 |issue=4 |page=e000690 |doi=10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000690 |pmc=3391372 |pmid=22763661 |url=}} {{open access}}

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