American software developers, the Tolven Institute, have launched a new website to release new open source software to its members.
Open source software is an initiative being piloted across the world where programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code of software, allowing it to evolve.
TI has launched three new products, licensed by the Lesser General Public License, and is actively looking for testers. These are:
- An electronic Personal Health Record solution (ePHR) that will enable consumers to record and selectively share healthcare information about themselves and their loved ones in a secure manner.
- An electronic Clinician Health Record solutions (eCHR) that enables physicians and other healthcare providers to securely access healthcare information collated from any number of trusted sources relating to an individual patient, quickly and easily and
- A healthcare information platform that enables healthcare data to be stored in an industry standard data schema (e.g., HL7 Reference Information Model) as normalized data (e.g., Unified Medical Language System) and provisioned to either Tolven or third party applications in a semantically interoperable fashion.
Chief executive, Neil Cowles told EHI: “We are very pleased to have this new website up and running, and providing people with the chance to participate in open-source project evaluation for us.”
He added: “We are looking for people with backgrounds in patient administration, and other backgrounds relating to healthcare technology to register with us and test out software, for free, before we release it. Feedback has been positive so far and we are looking to expand on what we have got.”
Membership is open and free to anyone with the inclination to participate in the governance of the product. You can register yourself at http://www.tolvenhealth.com.
Cowles also invited EHI readers to attend the first national open source forum for the US health information infrastructure community, which will be held in Louisville, Kentucky in November. You can register to attend at http://openhii.visplex.net/.
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