10 Open Source Projects Changing Medicine

With health care reform being all the rage, Open Source projects are becoming popular topics as alternatives to the incredibly expensive and complex software suites in use today.  Smarter Technology has a great list of 10 open-source projects targeted at health and medicine, including a few great data visualization tools.

Assuming debate moves beyond “You’re stupid. No you are,” health care reform will require new ways of lowering costs and de-siloing tens of thousands of sickly complex systems. Even if the current overhaul stalls (and maybe especially so), we’ll still need fresh collaboration, technology and ideas.

Of note is a particular fav of mine, SMIViewer, which made #9.

via 10 Open Source Projects Changing Medicine – Technology For Change.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .

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