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Major collaborative, open source health IT software development projects focused on creating innovative new systems and technologies.

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Sahana Foundation Projects

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Sahana is a free and open source Disaster Management system. It addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effec-tively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves. See Sahana web site. Read More »

Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)

The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative has helped create the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM).SCORM capability supports the Next Generation Learning Environment of ADL’s overarching research and development strategies. Read More »

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http://www.adlnet.gov/scorm/

SMART Project

Subsitutable Medical Apps & Reusable Technologies (SMART) is a project funded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) within the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) through the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program. Read More »

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http://www.smartplatforms.org/

SNOMED

Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT) is considered to be the most comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology in the world. Each year, avoidable deaths and injuries occur because of poor communication between healthcare practitioners, or because busy practitioners forget or neglect to follow their own criteria for best practices. Read More »

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http://www.ihtsdo.org/snomed-ct/

SourceForge

SourceForge is considered the leading resource for open source software development and distribution. The site houses over 300,000 projects, connects more than 46 million consumers with these open source projects, and serves more than 2,000,000 downloads a day. SourceForge.net is owned and operated by Geeknet, Inc., a publicly traded US-based company.

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http://sourceforge.net/

Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP)

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) has funded the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program to support the discovery of “breakthrough” research findings that will accelerate the nationwide use of health IT and will support dramatic improvements in health care. Read More »

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http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=1806&mode=2

The Genographic Project

The Genographic Project is a multiyear research initiative led by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Spencer Wells. Dr. Wells and a team of renowned international scientists are using cutting-edge genetic and computational technologies to analyze historical patterns in DNA from participants around the world to better understand our human genetic roots. Read More »

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https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/

The TIGER Initiative

The Technology Informatics Guiding Educational Reform (TIGER) Initiative aims to enable practicing nurses and nursing students to fully engage in the unfolding digital electronic era in healthcare.  The purpose of the initiative is to identify information/knowledge management best practices and effective technology capabilities for nurses.  TIGER's goal is to create and disseminate ac Read More »

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http://www.tigersummit.com/About_Us.html

tranSmart Project

tranSMART is a knowledge management platform that enables scientists to develop and refine research hypotheses by investigating correlations between genetic and phenotypic data, and assessing their analytical results in the context of published literature and other work. Read More »

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http://www.transmartproject.org/

Voluntary Universal Healthcare Identification (VUHID)

The goal of the Voluntary Universal Healthcare Identification (VUHID) project is to make unique healthcare identifiers available to any patient who uses the services of a regional health information organization (RHIO) or health information exchange (HIE) to: Read More »

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http://gpii.info/system.php

Webinos

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Webinos is a European Union (EU) funded project aiming to deliver a platform for web applications across mobile, PC, home media (TV) and in-car devices. The Webinos project has over twenty partners from across Europe spanning academic institutions, industry research firms, software firms, handset manufacturers and automotive manufacturers. Read More »

WebM Project

The WebM project is dedicated to developing a high-quality, open video format for the web that is freely available to everyone. WebM is supported by Mozilla, Opera, Adobe, Google and more than seventy other publishers and software and hardware vendors.

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http://www.webmproject.org/

WebRTC

WebRTC is a free, open project that enables web browsers with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple Javascript APIs. Read More »

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http://www.webrtc.org/

WHO Health Assessment Economic Tools (HEAT)

The Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for cycling and walking is an online resource provided b Read More »

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http://www.heatwalkingcycling.org/

Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project

The Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project has developed a model to facilitate access to patient-level clinical research data to promote wider availability of clinical trial data and independent analysis by external investigators. Read More »

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http://medicine.yale.edu/core/projects/yodap/index.aspx