Growth of Open Source Solutions in Healthcare in the 21st Century

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Growth of Open Source Solutions in Healthcare in the 21st Century

Posted by Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS on Monday July 17, @01:53PM
from the medical-open-source-development dept.
Douglas Goldstein and Peter Groen have an informative article with a wide ranging perspective of FOSS in medicine. '...It is important to recognize that a wide range of OSS solutions are already in use in health care, generally consisting of technical tools and business applications - Linux, Apache, Open Office, mySQL, FireFox, and other fairly well known products. In addition, there are a large number of health care specific OSS solutions that have also been developed and are being widely deployed, such as OSCAR, FreeMed, MedLine, BLAST, Epi-X, SaTScan, VistA, and many more...'

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