List of open source healthcare software

The following is a list of software packages and applications licensed under an open source license or in the public domain

Public domain

Works are in the public domain if the intellectual property rights have expired, if the intellectual property rights are forfeited, or if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all...

for use in the healthcare industry.

Software that is freely available, but not licensed under an open source license should be placed in the List of freeware health software.

Public Health and Biosurveillance

Epi Info
Epi Info
Epi Info is public domain statistical software for epidemiology developed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia ....

is public domain statistical software for epidemiology developed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services headquartered in Druid Hills, unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, in Greater Atlanta...

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Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler
Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler
The Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler is a free software available through the Eclipse Foundation. Originally developed by IBM Research, STEM is a framework and development tool designed to help scientists create and use spatial and temporal models of infectious disease. STEM uses a component...

is a tool, originally developed at IBM Research
IBM Research
IBM Research, a division of IBM, is a research and advanced development organization and currently consists of eight locations throughout the world and hundreds of projects....

, for modeling and visualizing the spread of infectious diseases.

Dental Management and Patient Record

Open Dental
Open Dental
Open Dental, previously known as Free Dental, is dual licensed Practice Management Software available under both a commercial license and the GNU General Public License.. It is written in the C# programming language compatible with Microsoft .NET Framework and was first released in 2003. Current...

is the first Open Source dental management package with very broad capabilities on record management, patient scheduling and dental office management.

Electronic health or medical record

(In alphabetical order)

FreeMED
FreeMED
FreeMED is an opensource electronic medical record system based on Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP .- History :...

is a practice management and electronic and computer records system. It allows the tracking of medical data, in detail, with preservation not just of the diagnosis but the reasons for medical encounters. FreeMED is released under the GPL FreeMedForms is a full set of medical applications (EMR, prescriber, drug interaction
Drug interaction
A drug interaction is a situation in which a substance affects the activity of a drug, i.e. the effects are increased or decreased, or they produce a new effect that neither produces on its own. Typically, interaction between drugs come to mind...

checker)…). The project is administrated and developed by a community of medical doctors and computer scientists. The whole applications are freely available and are released with the full code source (GPLv3).
GNUmed
GNUmed
GNUmed is a Free/Libre electronic medical record for Unix-like systems , Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and other platforms...

is a WxPython application that uses PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software...

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GNU Health
GNU Health
GNU Health is a Free Health and Hospital Information System that provides the following functionality:* Electronic Medical Record * Hospital Information System * Health Information System...

(aka "Medical") is a Free, centralized, highly scalable Health and Hospital Information System
Hospital OS
Hospital OS
Hospital OS is a research and development project for a hospital management software to support small hospitals. It is financially supported by the Thailand Research Fund....

Open source hospital information system in Thai
HOSxP
HOSxP
HOSxP is a hospital information system, including Electronic health record , in use in over 70 hospitals across Thailand. The software aims to ease the healthcare workflow of health centers, for small sanatoriums to central hospitals....
Mirth (software)
Mirth (software)
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 available under the Mozilla Public License 1.1 license.-Background:...

is an open source cross-platform HL7 interface engine that enables bi-directional sending of HL7 messages between systems and applications over multiple transports.
OpenEMR
OpenEMR
OpenEMR is a Free and Open Source, Practice management and Electronic Medical Records software application. It is ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR certified and it features fully integrated electronic medical records, practice management, scheduling, electronic billing, internationalization, free...

an open-source Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software.
OpenMRS
OpenMRS
is a collaborative open source project to develop excellent software to support the delivery of health care in developing countries. It grew out of the critical need to scale up the treatment of HIV in Africa but from the start was conceived as a general purpose electronic medical record system...

is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise EMR framework. Extensible and scalable EMR based on Java.
OSCAR McMaster an open-source Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software. The billing component of the software is specialized for the needs of the Canadian health care providers.
PacientOS
PacientOS
PacientOS is an open source, cross-platform, Healthcare Information System written in Java for managing patient visits, results, medications and other clinical or administrative tasks. PatientOS is officially released by .-External links:* *...

is an integrated healthcare information system to manage patient visits, results, medications and other clinical or administrative tasks
SmartCare
SmartCare
The SmartCare electronic health record system has been developed and deployed by The Ministry of Health Zambia, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and many other implementing partners.SmartCare is:...
THIRRA (EHR)
THIRRA (EHR)
THIRRA is an open source web-based Electronic Health Records System. The name THIRRA was derived from its project title Portable System for TeleHealth and Health Informatics for Rural and Remote Areas.- History :...

is a web based EHR application designed primarily for narrowband. It was released under the Mozilla Public License and includes communicable diseases biosurveillance feature. THIRRA uses PHP5, CodeIgniter and PostgreSQL.
VistA
VistA
The Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture is an enterprise-wide information system built around an Electronic Health Record , used throughout the United States Department of Veterans Affairs medical system, known as the Veterans Health Administration .It's a collection...

— Veterans Administrations integrated Electronic Health Record system available for non-governmental use as OpenVista or WorldVistA
WorldVistA
WorldVistA is an open source implementation of the Veteran Administration's Electronic Health Record system intended for use in health care facilities outside the VA.-Background:...

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ZEPRS
ZEPRS
The Zambia Electronic Perinatal Record System is an Electronic Medical Record system used by public obstetric clinics and a hospital in Lusaka, Zambia.- Background :...

The ZEPRS application is an electronic patient record system that enables clinicians to enter data from patient visits using a web browser.

Medical Practice Management Software

ClearHealth
Clearhealth
ClearHealth is an Open Source practice management and electronic medical records system available under the GNU General Public License. It has received attention as a possible open source option for FQHC and CHC sites. It is currently deployed at approximately 600 sites worldwide including...

covers the five major areas of practice operations including scheduling, billing, EMR, HIPAA Security and accounts receivable. It offers a fully comprehensive system which now offers tools like E-Prescribing, Drug Interactions, Electronic Labs and Lab ordering. It is the largest open source healthcare solution serving more than 500 sites including the Primary Care Coalition network in MD with 50 sites and around 100,000 patients.
Elexis An Eclipse RCP program for all aspects of a medical practice: electronic medical record (EMR), laboratory findings etc., as well as accounting, billing (swiss TARMED-System, other systems to be developped) and other daily work.
FreeMED
FreeMED
FreeMED is an opensource electronic medical record system based on Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP .- History :...

is a practice management and electronic and computer records system. It allows the tracking of medical data, in detail, with preservation not just of the diagnosis but the reasons for medical encounters. FreeMED
FreeMED
FreeMED is an opensource electronic medical record system based on Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP .- History :...

is released under the LGPL GNU
GNU
GNU is a Unix-like computer operating system developed by the GNU project, ultimately aiming to be a "complete Unix-compatible software system"...

license. FreeMED
FreeMED
FreeMED is an opensource electronic medical record system based on Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP .- History :...

is an HIPAA compliant FOSS
Foss
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Practice Management System that handles billing.
GNU Health
GNU Health
GNU Health is a Free Health and Hospital Information System that provides the following functionality:* Electronic Medical Record * Hospital Information System * Health Information System...

(aka "Medical") is a Free, centralized, highly scalable Health and Hospital Information System
MedinTux
MedinTux
MedinTux is a free healthcare software for managing consultations, written for the French environment.-Features:Originally written for the French emergency services, its modular conception allow it to be used in almost any area of medical or paramedical specialization.The software works in a...

MedinTux is a French medical practice management system, with a web interface as well as a desktop one, that has been initially to manage a hospital emergency department. Being very modular, it has been extended to run also many different smaller practices. It works on GNU/Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

, Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

, Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
Open Dental
Open Dental
Open Dental, previously known as Free Dental, is dual licensed Practice Management Software available under both a commercial license and the GNU General Public License.. It is written in the C# programming language compatible with Microsoft .NET Framework and was first released in 2003. Current...

Dental practice management
OpenEMR
OpenEMR
OpenEMR is a Free and Open Source, Practice management and Electronic Medical Records software application. It is ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR certified and it features fully integrated electronic medical records, practice management, scheduling, electronic billing, internationalization, free...

A free medical practice management, electronic medical records, prescription writing, and medical billing application.

Health System Management

DHIS
DHIS
The District Health Information System is a highly flexible, open-source health management information system and data warehouse. It is developed by the Health Information Systems Programme project....

Open-source district health management information system and data warehouse (license: BSD license)
HRHIS
HRHIS
A “Human Resource for Health Information System” — also known within the health care sector as “human resource information system” — is a system for collecting, processing, managing and disseminating data and information on human resource for health...

Open-source human resource for health information system for management of human resources for health developed by University of Dar es Salaam
University of Dar es Salaam
The University of Dar es Salaam is a university in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam. The university was born out of a decision taken in 1970 to split the then University of East Africa into three independent universities; Makerere University , University of Nairobi and University of Dar es...

, Department of Computer Science, for Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (Tanzania) and funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA
JICA
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) (license: GPL
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

v3)

Imaging/Visualization

Drishti
Drishti
Drishti is a multi-platform, open-source Volume Exploration and Presentation Tool. It was written for visualizing tomography data, electron-microscopy data and so forth. It aims to ease understanding of the data set and to assist with conveying that understanding to the research community or a...

is a volumetric visualisation package for viewing Computer Tomography data. Able to import DICOM image stacks.
Endrov
Endrov
is an open-source plugin architecture aimed for image analysis and data processing. Being based on Java, it is portable and can both be run locally and as an applet. It grew out of the need for an advanced open source software that can cope with complex spatio-temporal image data, mainly obtained...

Image and data viewer and editor

ITK
Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit
ITK is a cross-platform, open-source application development framework widely used for the development of image segmentation and image registration programs. Segmentation is the process of identifying and classifying data found in a digitally sampled representation. Typically the sampled...

Segmentation and Registration Toolkit
InVesalius
InVesalius
InVesalius is a free medical software used to reconstruct structures of the human body. Based on two-dimensional images, acquired using Computed tomography or Magnetic resonance imaging equipments, the software generates virtual three-dimensional models correspondent to anatomical parts of the...

3D Medical Imaging Reconstruction software
ITK-SNAP
ITK-SNAP
ITK-SNAP is an interactive software application that allows users to navigate three-dimensional medical images, manually delineate anatomical regions of interest, and perform automatic image segmentation...

Interactive software for 3D image navigation, annotation and automatic segmentation

MicroDicom
MicroDicom
MicroDicom is a free DICOM viewer for Windows.MicroDicom is application for primary processing and preservation of medical images in DICOM format. You can open DICOM images produced by medical equipment...

Free DICOM viewer for Windows
OsiriX
OsiriX
OsiriX is an image processing application dedicated to DICOM images produced by medical equipment . Osirix is complementary to existing viewers, in particular to nuclear medicine viewers. It can also read many other file formats: TIFF , JPEG, PDF, AVI, MPEG and Quicktime...

- 3D DICOM Medical Viewer for Mac OS X. Complete DICOM Viewer with DICOM network support

ParaView
ParaView
ParaView is an open source, freely available program for parallel, interactive, scientific visualization. It has a client–server architecture to facilitate remote visualization of datasets, and generates level of detail models to maintain interactive framerates for large datasets. It is an...

Large Scale Visualization tool
3DSlicer
3DSlicer
3D Slicer is a free, open source software package for image analysis and scientific visualization. Slicer is used in a variety of medical applications, including autism, multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, prostate cancer, schizophrenia, orthopedic biomechanics, COPD, cardiovascular...

Platform for medical image visualization and algorithm development. DICOM support, segmentation and registration, Diffusion MRI
Diffusion MRI
Diffusion MRI is a magnetic resonance imaging method that produces in vivo images of biological tissues weighted with the local microstructural characteristics of water diffusion, which is capable of showing connections between brain regions...

processing, and image guided surgery support.

Voreen
Voreen
Voreen is an easy to use and highly flexible open source volume visualization library and development platform...

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.
VTK
VTK
The Visualization Toolkit is an open-source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization. VTK consists of a C++ class library and several interpreted interface layers including Tcl/Tk, Java, and Python. Kitware, whose team created and continues to...

Visualization Toolkit
Xebra (medical imaging software)
Xebra (medical imaging software)
Xebra is an open source, cross-platform, thin client and server written in Java for web-based distribution and clinical review of radiology data in DICOM format. Xebra is based on open standards including JPEG2000, WADO and IHE XDS-I....
GIMIAS
GIMIAS
GIMIAS is a workflow-oriented environment focused on biomedical image computing and simulation. The open source framework is extensible through plug-ins and is focused on building research and clinical software prototypes...

Workflow-oriented environment focused on biomedical image computing and simulation

Medical Information Systems

Caisis
Caisis
Caisis is an open source, web-based, patient data management system that integrates research with patient care. The system is freely distributed to promote the collection of standard, well structured data suitable for research and multi-institution collaboration.- History :Caisis was designed...

is a web based information system for the storage and analysis of cancer patient data intended to bridge the gap between clinic and research (license: GPL
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

)

Research

LabKey Server
LabKey Server
LabKey Server is free, open source software available for scientists to integrate, analyze, and share biomedical research data. The platform provides a secure data repository that allows web-based querying, reporting, and collaborating across a range of data sources...

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.
OpenClinica is an open source clinical trial software platform with electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical data management capabilities.

Mobile / Handheld Devices

Ushahidi
Ushahidi
Ushahidi, Inc. is a non-profit software company that develops free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping....

Allows people to submit crisis information through text messaging using a mobile phone, email or web form. Displays information in map view.
SMS for Life is program which uses an open source solution to assist in the delivery of malaria vaccine
Malaria vaccine
Malaria vaccines are an area of intensive research. However, there is no effective vaccine that has been introduced into clinical practice.The global burden of P. falciparum malaria increased through the 1990s due to drug-resistant parasites and insecticide-resistant mosquitoes; this is illustrated...

in Tanzania
Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...

through the use of cell phones and mapping technology. Developed by IBM, Novartis
Novartis
Novartis International AG is a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, ranking number three in sales among the world-wide industry...

and Vodafone
Vodafone
Vodafone Group Plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world's second-largest measured by subscribers , with around 341 million proportionate subscribers as of...

Interoperability testing

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT)
Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology is an independent, 5013 nonprofit organization with the public mission of accelerating the adoption of robust, interoperable health information technology...

has developed an open-source program called Laika
Laika (EHR Testing Framework)
Laika is an open source Electronic Health Record testing framework. Laika analyzes and reports on the interoperability capabilities of EHR systems. This includes the testing for certification of EHR software products and networks...

to test EHR software for compliance with CCHIT interoperability standards.

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