Welcome to the Open Health Tools' Web Site

Open Health Tools is an open source community with a vision of enabling a ubiquitous ecosystem where members of the Health and IT professions can collaborate to build interoperable systems that enable patients and their care providers to have access to vital and reliable medical information at the time and place it is needed.  Open Health Tools will generate a vibrant active ecosystem involving software product and service companies, medical equipment companies, health care providers, insurance companies, government health service agencies, and standards organizations.

Recent News

Second Board meeting introduces new members and projects.

April 14, 2008. Open Health Tools' progress was discussed at the second Board of Stewards meeting, held in Chicago on April 14, 2008. New members were introduced (bringing the total to 27), new Charter Projects were detailed (seven have now received at least approval in principle). See the minutes for details and links to all the material presented at the meeting.

Tri-Continental Foundation of Experts, Open Health Tools, to Collaborate on Global Health IT Solutions

April 8, 2008. Open Health Tools today announced a collaborative effort between national health agencies, government-funded organizations and agencies, major healthcare providers, international standards organizations and companies from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States to develop common healthcare IT products and services. See the full press release.

Forge Project Repository Goes Live

April 2, 2008. Open Health Tools software repository is now publicly accessible. The first project to be released is NHS's xmlprocess (an XML Forms engine).

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Membership

Membership in Open Health Tools is open to those persons or organizations who can make substantial contributions in terms of time, technology, knowledge, or industry expertise to the Open Health Tools Vision. More details on the Membership page. 

Project Descriptions

A number of development projects have been identified by the Open Health Tools participants.  More details on the Charter Projects and Forge Projects pages.