Medical and Healthcare software development including : Topics, articles, reviews and resources
Robotics
ROS (Robot Operating System) is an open source framework (not a real operating system) for writing robot software. It started in 2007 by Eric Berger and Keenan Wyrobek (they were PhD students at Stanford University) with the goal of simplifying the process of creating complex robot behavior across a wide
Open-source
Camus is a lightweight cross-platform real-time peer-to-peer video chat application. It's built with Python3 and ready to be deployed on server with simple few steps. We have reviewed and listed several open-source video applications on Medevel.com, but most of them require time and skills to install and
Open-source
A headless CMS (content management system) is a backend system which works the content available through API (RESTful API or GraphQL). It's built to give the developers the possibilities to create what they want. The API-driven headless approach is trending immediately especially for enterprise users and developers. Headless
Open-source
There is no shortage for collaborative writing tools and software online, however not all of them are created and customized for book writing. Today, we bring to you an amazing open-source tool for book writers, authors and editors to collaborate on writing and editing their books without the need of
Automation
Botfather is a universal automation framework built to help users create, manage and automated their bots for web, desktop and android devices. It's created to create bots for casual games. Later, it was extended to work on Android, Browser and desktop applications. Botfather works with a simple scripts
Open-source
PriceAndNutritionTrackingSystem (PANTS for short) is an open-source web-based application and self-hosted built to help users track their nutrition with its composed tool for nutritional data analysis of ingredients and recipes. PANTS can be used to track calories and nutrients, works like a recipes' manager, manage the costs and compare
Open-source
While Uber is under fire in several countries from angry taxi companies and taxi drivers especially in Europe and Turkey, It's hard to keep Uber up and running because of legal constrains and lockdown. But with an open-source solution that anyone can install and run, there might be
Open-source
Developers and software engineers are often required to create diagrams in their line of work. As there are many commercial solutions some may feel compelled to buy like I did on macOS, there are few alternative professional solutions like Dia diagram editor. Our topic of the day is Gapher a
research
OpenBehavior is an open-source repository for tools, software, projects and scripts that are dedicated for behavioral neuroscience research. The main goal is to promote and accelerate the collaboration of open-source neuroscience projects, neuroscience researchers and developers. Currently, OpenBehavior has 145 projects and active community of developers and research who are
web development
What is Push notification? A push notification is the message that pops up on your mobile iOS or Android, and sometimes on your desktop or a web browser. It's often used by application publishers and authors to notify the end-user's device about certain event. It looks
Open-source
While deciding to build chat or a messenger application the developer often look for different options, at the end it's all about the requirements. There are many commercial services and development tools to build chat/ messaging applications with different features set. However, it's difficult to find
Self-hosted
Collaborative writing is a term referred to team and group of writers involving in writing and editing the same document or writing project. The project can be an essay, a technical documentation, a book, or a research paper. When groups and teams join together in a writing project, They often
Open-source
What's MicroDraw? MicroDraw is a lightweight web-based collaborative annotation application for displaying and viewing large-scale (DeepZoom) images. It's completely free and open-source software that comes with no restrictions to use or to modify. It's a self-hosted application which means it can be installed and
Open-source
Etherpad is a free open-source web-based real-time collaborative document editor. It's a combination of a text editor with a real-time interactive editing option. Some may say, it's an open-source alternative for Google Docs, Zoho Docs, or Microsoft Office (Web). However, it's not. It adds
research
The challenge of matching precipitant (patients) for cancer trials is not easy nor simple. The current methods for patient recruitment for clinical trials result in failure [5]. Our topic of the day MatchMiner is designed to help researchers overcome this challenge. MatchMiner is an open-source computational platform with a specific
Open-source
Medical imaging applications are a necessity in research and clinical practice. However, unlike years ago there are medical imaging specific frameworks that ease the development of medical imaging applications. As our goal in Medevel.com to create useful resources for the medical apps developers community, here in this article we
DICOM and Medical Radiology
Building medical imaging applications has been evolving as the industry demands over the last decade. From creating the application from scratch to medical imaging specific frameworks, platforms and environments. Today's topic is about one of these specific tools: GIMIAS. GIMIAS is an open-source platform for creating medical imaging
Development
LIMBAS is a framework for building enterprise applications for medium and large-scale companies. With LIMBAS, you don't need to re-invent the wheel or start from scratch as it offers you the tools for building highly performed applications. LIMBAS is a good option for prototyping because it's
Development
While consulting for medical projects over the years and working on some, I collected hundreds of domain-specific libraries and frameworks built to help developers make medical applications. However, many of the libraries were not supported or popular enough to survive as they were abandoned by their creators over the years.
PHR
Days ago I published an article with a quick tutorial and simple code snippets about TiddlyWiki. One of the use-cases I recommend is a Persona Health Record "PHR", I use TiddlyWiki as my health record system, so as some of my friends and family members. A friend with
Tutorials
I have been using TiddlyWiki for years, mainly as a personal memo, to-do organizer, and encrypted data reserve (to keep track of some of my patients, or while learning). I always recommend this amazing project to my friends, colleagues doctors, and developers alike, because I believe the value it gives
Self-hosted
Directus is an enterprise-grade headless system that warps SQL database into production-ready API. It comes backed with a features-rich application, powerful API and SDK support and multiple SQL database engines support. Why do we like Directus? Here is a quote from the documentation that explains the first-thing we like about
Artificial Intelligence
Looking for a segmentation tool developed by radiologists for radiologists? Look no further than MedSeg. MedSeg is an online segmentation tool based on JavaScript that allows radiologists to segment radiological images directly in their web browser without the need to download, install or register. Hence the tool is completely browser
design
The technological advancements associated with the twenty-first century, in particular the widespread adoption of commercial Internet usage, have revolutionized the way in which consumers seek and buy products and services. This revolution has resulted in the obsolescence of certain industries and jobs while simultaneously providing new opportunities and new jobs