Medical FLOSS repository at www.medfloss.org

After the initial launch 6 months ago it recently welcomed the 200th project in its repository: the GPL-licensed iDART software – iDART is the abbreviation of “Intelligent Dispensing of Antiretroviral Treatment” and according to its authors addresses many of the challenges faced by public ART dispensing pharmacies in developing countries.

Starting with originally just 120 projects, the medfloss.org database currently holds:

• 206 medical FLOSS projects that can be browsed by application type, enterprise function, standard and additional categories.
• 63 companies and other institutions that are offering professional service for specific FLOSS projects
• 83 references to scientific publications about the utilization of FLOSS in health care
• detailed overview of past and future FLOSS events like the Med-e-Tel 2010 FLOSS-HC track or OSCON Health IT track 2010

… and much more useful information.

My cordial thanks goes to all the contributors that already made and hopefully will continue to make use of the open content concept by revising/extending existing information or adding new content!

For more information about the site and its objectives please refer to the mission statement or these slides. Beside amendments to the actual content I also highly appreciate any general feedback about the site, offered functionality and shortcomings of it.

From the 16th until the 18th of April 2008 Med-e-Tel, the international educational and networking forum for eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT will take place at the Luxexpo in Luxembourg.

Beside various other interesting events, a workshop about Facilitating Collaboration to Facilitate Tele-Success will be held on Friday 18th of April and is split into four different sessions:

• From the Bottom Up: Designing from the User Perspective (Bill Parlette, iPath Association, Switzerland)
• What Else Is Going On? Building a Project Database (Holger Schmuhl, apfelkraut.org, Germany)
• Practical Considerations: Infrastructure, Links and Tools (Erik Blantz, INVENEO, USA)
• Price-Performance via Open Source Tools (Dr. Etienne Saliez, VCT-TK, Belgium)

The workshop will take place in Conference Room 4 starting at 9:30h until 16:00h.

With the session “What Else Is Going On? Building a Project Database” chaired by apfelkraut.org we hope to gather and discuss your requirements, expectations and experiences about a future database that is listing all available open source software projects for the health care sector. We are looking forward to your active participation!

Update (2008-04-16): My presentation is available here: “What Else Is Going On? Building a Project Database“.

for more information:
Med-e-Tel (official homepage)
Med-e-Tel (program)
The Bob Blog – “Just a reminder, Med-e-Tel is fast approaching”
Free Medical Software (freemedsw.apfelkraut.org)