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The Top 100 Open Source Software Tools for Medical Professionals (LiveSmarter)

[Posted April 14, 2008 by jake]

LiveSmarter has a look at free software tools for medical professionals. It is interesting to note the number of applications available for medical-specific use. "Expensive software and subscriptions for anti virus systems, supporting electronic medical records and even phone or e-mail communications can put on a strain on small clinics as well as larger hospitals. Open source tools are free, highly customizable, and secure enough to handle the sensitive data that medical professionals often work with." (seen on LinuxMedNews)

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Posted Apr 16, 2008 12:08 UTC (Wed) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link]

Hmm, a nice but somewhat strange list.

Why is OpenMoko useful for medical professionals ?

OTOH e.g. IGSTK (http://www.igstk.org/index.htm) is missing.

Why is Gnome useful for medical professionals but neither OpenOffice nor 
KDE ?

Alex