Talk:List of open-source health software

Proposed rules for this article:

1. Please only list software that is actually licensed under an open source license.
2. When adding/updating entries, please note which license the software is licensed under.
3. For freeware, please add that here: List of freeware health software
4. Please try to keep the entries in alphabetical order

(These rules were also added in HTML comments to the article itself)

Early discussions about this page

I have collected some additional information on some of these projects. Should they be appended to the entries on this list, or should new pages be created for each project? I'm thinking it would be nice to keep this list succinct, but the added information may be of value. John No 06:17, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

This is an annotated list divided into useful groupings, and thus meets the requirements of WP:LIST. Not being the author, i have removed the tagl. Please check the guidlines before going to AfDDGG 02:38, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Medical Practice Management Software

Comments invited to add SaaS site : edeskonline. Having gone through their demo, i notice that medical records can be maintained using their e-cabinet (database) section. Sanjiv swarup (talk) 07:09, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Shall I please add ? Sanjiv swarup (talk) 10:21, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

No, please stop promoting this link, Sanjiv. Kuru ^talk 11:35, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

lifesaver is not open source, should it be deleted? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.164.130.169 (talk) 06:51, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Public Health and Biosurveillance

I have added TriSano^(TM) to the list of Public Health and Biosurveillance open source software. I am a part-time employee of Collaborative Software Initiative. Astif (talk) 18:26, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Open Source and Public Domain

I believe that Open Source and Public Domain are different. Wikipedia needs a separate page to list Public Domain Healthcare software. Once this is done, we should delete the unnecessary lists and have only the Open Source projects listed here. Saravana Kumar K (talk) 10:37, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Public domain is a subset of open source - check this GNU diagram here: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html. I don't think its worth splitting up at this point. --Karl.brown (talk) 14:54, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

What I meant to say is any Open Source software means that you have the liberty to modify the source code and use it. If the software doesn't come with Source code, those kind of softwares can be called as "Freeware". What I see in this list is many freeware applications along with Open Source. Whereas the heading clearly says the list as only Open Source applications. That GNU diagram also says those Public Domain applications with Source code.Saravana Kumar K (talk) 10:00, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

From the top of the page: "The following is a list of software packages and applications licensed under an open source license or in the public domain for use in the healthcare industry." If there are packages which you see which are not licensed under an open source license, then I agree, they should be removed. If you are not positive, I'd suggest listing them here for discussion, and then we can do some research to figure out if they are indeed licensed under an open source license. As for criteria, I would propose listing anything that has a license approved by the Open Source initiative.

We could also consider listing the license alongside each individual application, and make it a requirement that new projects listed must also list their license. --Karl.brown (talk) 14:22, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Non Open Source Applications

These are some Non Open Source Applications that are listed wrongly in this Article.

The article should only allow applications that comes with source code to be listed here in the article.

As per the definition of Public domain applications under Open Source, the software should be accompanied by it's Source code. See this page for more details: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html.

• Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA)
• IVUSAngio Tool
• MicroDicom
• PaxeraView
• METK
• SMIViewer
• MedINRIA
• VistA Imaging
• 3DimViewer

These are some apps I found as Not Open Source nor Public Domain. They are copyright softwares. May be they need to be put in a separate article of List of free healthcare software

Update: The above items were moved to List of freeware health software --Karl.brown (talk) 13:00, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Saravana Kumar K (talk) 06:36, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Vista is open source (http://worldvista.org/) (http://healthit.ahrq.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=1089&&PageID=14608&mode=2&in_hi_userid=3882&cached=true). The others as far as I can tell are freeware. I'd suggest renaming the new page to be "List of freeware health applications" because the GNU people have a specific meaning for 'free software' - I think freeware is the right word you want to use. --Karl.brown (talk) 23:33, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I renamed the freeware page to be titled 'list of freeware health software' and moved some of the items from your suggested list above.--Karl.brown (talk) 18:22, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

edit war

There have been 2 back and forth edits around GIMIAS (http://www.gimias.org/). Any other editor care to chime in on whether GIMIAS should be listed? They claim a BSD license, which if you look at their website, the license looks like a BSD license to me. Thus I would vote to keep this, and will override the 'undo' of "Theserialcomma" unless I hear some arguments to the contrary for why they shouldn't be listed. --Karl.brown (talk) 20:48, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Requested move

List of open source healthcare software → List of open-source healthcare software — like Open-source software — Neustradamus (✉) 18:29, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Discussion moved to Talk:List of free and open source software packages#Requested move. Jafeluv (talk) 16:01, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

• That discussion was closed no concensus after 34 days Anthony Appleyard (talk) 11:30, 24 February 2010 (UTC)