Category Archives: Open Source

Open Source

When Open-source can Kill or Cure

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Bob

The use of open-source software in medical devices has been a topic of discussion for many years. The Economist article Open-source medical devices: When code can kill or cure highlights continuing activity in the academic community and interest by the FDA in developing … Continue reading →

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Plunging into Web Development

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Bob

I’ve authored a few web sites. Nothing professionally though. I know just enough HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to be dangerous. Now I’m faced with creating a customer-facing site that has (or will someday soon have) real requirements. Here are a … Continue reading →

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Interoperability: Google Protocol Buffers vs. XML

Posted on July 14, 2008 by Bob

Google recently open sourced Protocol Buffers: Google’s Data Interchange Format (documentation, code download). What are Protocol Buffers? Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. The documentation is … Continue reading →

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One Reason Why Linux Isn’t Mainstream: ./configure and make

Posted on June 22, 2008 by Bob

Bare with me, I’ll get to the point of the title by the end of the post. I primarily develop for Microsoft platform targets, so I have a lot of familiarity with Microsoft development tools and operating systems. I also … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Source, Programming, Tools | 3 Comments

100 Open Source Software Tools for Medical Professionals

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Bob

I mentioned an Open Source Medical Software list before. Here’s yet another list: The Top 100 Open Source Software Tools for Medical Professionals The contents of this one provide a broader selection of functionality. Annotated lists like these are a … Continue reading →

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Open Source Medical Software

Posted on January 21, 2008 by Bob

Free Medical Software appears to be a comprehensive list that’s currently being kept up-to-date (hat tip: LinuxMedNews). The project attributes and annotations make the list quite useful. Nice job Holger!

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EHR System Modeling

Posted on January 1, 2008 by Bob

I’m a regular Slashdot reader and it’s rare to come across a health care related post. So Arguing For Open Electronic Health Records of course caught my eye. I’m sure it was the open standards aspect that attracted them, but … Continue reading →

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Personally Controlled Health Record

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Bob

Following my EMR-Facebook brainstorming post I ran across the IndivoHealth project (via WSJ-Health Blog). The announcement is that a consortium of large companies, Dossia, would be extending the Indivo open source core. Indivo has implemented the paradigm shift that I … Continue reading →

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