Horst Herb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:11, Tim Churches wrote:
It should, of course. But so far I am not aware of any government
funded
health software projects that resulted in open source code -
ever.
How about VistA? And then there are all the health informatics
projects
undertaken by university-based reserachers which have resulted in
open
source health software - too many to list right now - almost all of
them
publicly funded in some form or other.
Sorry, should have read *Australian* government funded ...
What about Febrl (see http://datamining.anu.edu.au/projects/linkage.html ) - joint
initial funding by ANU (Australian National University - a public institution) and
NSW Department of Health, and now funded by ARC (Australian Research
Council, an arm of the Australian governement) and NSW Dept of Health? Febrl
is not clinical software, but it is definitely health software. There may be other
examples of ARC or NHMRC (National Health Medical Research Council)
funded research which have resulted in open source software (although I can't
think of any off the top of my head). But stay tuned for further open source
releases of health software funded by Australian governments in the next little
while.
Then there is ArgusConnect, who are contractually bound to release their code
under an open source license (but some years after the govt funding for the
project ceased, they still haven't released any code - but they almost certainly will,
eventually - hopefully not too late to miss their window of opportunity in the
Australian health software marketplace).
Tim C
