Author : admin Date : 11:10 AM

Software has reached in every possible field in the world, right from simple word processing to space craft to medical field domain, where software has become an integral part in terms of making the process easier and faster. The most popular of these software’s are free and open source and you can easily download the source code and enhance the software fitting your needs.

There are lots of programming languages out there in the wild but Some of the most widely used programming languages in the medical industry are

  • Python, it has immense library for 3D imaging
  • C++ , it is very fast in terms of speed of the finally data intensive application
  • OpenGL
  • GLSL
  • Java

Here is a list of free and open source software’s used in Health care industry

>  FreeMED :

  • Description:
    FreeMED is an opensource electronic medical record and practice management system which has been developed since 1999.
  • Technologies  used:
    PHP, SQL, Bash, Perl
  • Additional details:
    Its interface is primarily web-based, but web services interfaces, such as XML-RPC, are also available.
  • Download:
    sourceforge.net Freemed

>  GNUmed :

  • Description:
    GNUmed     is a Free/Libre electronic medical record (EMR) for Unix-like systems (BSD, GNU/Linux, and UNIX systems), Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and other platforms. GNUmed aims to provide medical software that respects the privacy of patients and that is based on open standards.
  • Technologies  used:
    Python
  • Additional details:
    GNUmed has lots of features including manage waiting list, staff handling, risk management, statistics and reports
  • Download:
    wiki.gnumed.de

>  HOSxP

  • Description:
    HOSxP     is a hospital information system, including Electronic health record (EHR), in use in over 70 hospitals across Thailand. The software aims to ease the healthcare workflow of health centres, for small sanatoriums to central hospitals.
  • Technologies  used:
    Borland Delphi, DataSnap, MySQL, Kylix for Linux
  • Additional details:
    This software has won awards in Thailand like Thailand ICT Award 2005 1st Healthcare Application
  • Download:
    sourceforge.net loeihosxp

>  OpenEMR

  • Description:
    OpenEMR is a Free and Open Source electronic health records and medical practice management application that can run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and many other platforms.
  • Technologies  used:
    PHP, MySQL,Apache
  •  Additional details:
    OpenEMR received a 2012 Bossie Award in the “The Best Open Source Applications” category
  • Download:
    sourceforge openemr

There are a lot of medical visualisation tools available and that too free and open source. Many of which are used around the world for their powerful capabilities.

>  VTK

  • Description: The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open-source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization.
  • Technologies used: consists of a C++ class library and several interpreted interface layers including Tcl/Tk, Java, and Python.
  • Additional details: it is based on BSD license.

>  ITK

  • Description: ITK is an open-source, cross-platform system that provides developers with an extensive suite of software tools for image analysis. Developed through extreme programming methodologies, ITK employs leading-edge algorithms for registering and segmenting multidimensional data.
  • Additional details: Apache 2.0 license

>  3D slicer

  • Description: Slicer, or 3D Slicer, is a free, open source software package for visualization and image analysis. 3D Slicer is natively designed to be available on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux and Mac Os X.
  • Additional details: BSD license

>  NiftyRec

  •  Description: This project, developed at UCL London, provides code for tomographic reconstruction.
  • Technologies used: The software is written in C and comes with Python and Matlab (mex) interfaces. Computationally intensive functions have a GPU accelerated version based on CUDA.
  • Additional details: it is based on BSD license.

Prior to medical advancements many people died from over exposure of the elements and the unstoppable spreading of contagious diseases. Due to medical technology societies gleaned the extension of life which both allowed highly educated individuals to develop and create medical technological advancements and allowed important critical years to document and transfer their expertise. New diseases emerged and new cures evolved.

Sharing and talking about the open source code will get the “medical world “to a higher level of advancement.

Source: en.wikipedia.org
opensource_mia_ws_2012