August 11th, 2008
Open Health Tools gets first big donation
Open Health Tools, the open source project launched this spring by Eclipse founder Skip McGaughey, has gotten its first big code donation.
It’s called Open HIE, or Open Health Information Exchange. It consists of modules to link a master record to personal information, and to retrieve records from known locations.
The donor is the California Healthcare Foundation, and the donation was midwifed by two important open source companies, CollabNet and Palamida.
CollabNet provided its development platform to the project, and Palamida has already done a code review on the donated code base.
The software itself is descended from code used to create the failed Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange in 2006. The idea of Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) has since spread nationwide.
Dana Blankenhorn has been a business journalist for 30 years, a tech freelancer since 1983. You can follow Dana on Twitter. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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