Objectives To assess the current state of the art and the contribution of Free/Libre Open
Source Software in health care (FLOSS-HC). Methods The review is based on a narrative …

Objectives: The emerging COVID-19 pandemic has caused one of the world's worst health
disasters compounded by social confusion with misinformation, the so-called “Infodemic”. In …

Purpose–The purpose of this chapter is to illustrate the importance of using open source
technologies and common standards for interoperability when implementing eHealth …

Objectives: To assess and analyze the attitude of health IT executives towards the utilization
of specialized medical Open Source software (OSS) in Germany's and other European …

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are at the heart of most health system reforms. As an
increasing number of hospitals are adopting open source EHRs and as many questions are …

This paper highlights some of the challenges, achievements and collaborations using health
informatics education and research as a change agent in which I have been involved over …

Health and demographic surveillance systems (HDSS) are community-based platforms that
collect longitudinal data on core demographic and socioeconomic indices as well as key …

Einleitung: Qualitätssicherungsverfahren bewerten die erreichte individuelle
Ergebnisqualität auf Basis von Referenzen, entlang derer akzeptable von nicht akzeptabler …

Advantages and disadvantages of Open Source software are primarily discussed quite
generally without or only by slightly taking the specific aspects of health care and the …

Andrew S. Kanter, Rob Borland, Mourice Barasa, Casey Iiams-Hauser, Olivia Velez, Nadi
Nina Kaonga and Page 206 THE IMPORTANCE OF USING OPEN SOURCE …