Medical and Healthcare software development including : Topics, articles, reviews and resources
Open-source
Avogadro: The Molecular Editor and Visualization Avogadro is a free, open source desktop molecular editor and visualization tool, designed for use on Mac, Windows, and Linux in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. It offers flexible high-quality rendering and a powerful plugin architecture. It's
Open-source
What is WebGL? Nowadays WebGL is a trending technology as it allows developers to create complex 3D interactive graphics, games using modern browsers as a client, without the need to install additional plugins, extensions, or software. WebGL allows the browser to work directly with the GPU (graphics processing unit). There
Open-source
The OpenIGTLink is an open source development library for building Medical Image-Guided Therapy (IGT) applications. It developed and maintained by OpenIGTLink community & Brigham and Women's Hospital. It's a low level C/C++ library that can be used to create multi-platform applications that runs on Windows,
Visualization
AMI Medical Imaging (AMI) Toolkit is a JavaScript toolkit for building medical imaging DICOM-ready apps with 2D/ 3D visualization. It combines a set of JavaScript libraries & Three.JS for WebGL 3D rendering. AMI Toolkit is featured in our list as one of medical imaging development tools that use WebGL
Visualization
WebGL is an emerging web technology, it's used nowadays to create games, interactive 3D products showcase, medical & scientific visualizations, geospatial data visualization. There are several frameworks, libraries and graphics/ games engines aiming for web developers to create interactive 3D visualization/ graphics that works directly from the browser
Open-source
WebGL is JavaScript API/ library based on OpenGL that allows web browsers to render 3D/ 2D graphics in the browser without the need to install extra plugins, desktop apps, any third-party plug-ins or browser extensions. WebGL allows using the machine GPU through the browser to render 3D graphics into HTML
Visualization
The X Toolkit is an open-source toolkit and framework for building medical and scientific 3D visualization that runs within the browser, It uses the power of WebGL to provide smooth 3D modeling, structure, and material/texture rendering with few lines of code. Unlike other WebGL frameworks and libraries out there,
Development
Open source/ Libre software are becoming a major part of daily usage for many users worldwide, Medical/ Healthcare sector is no exception. For DICOM Viewers we have many open-source Desktop clients some of them are enterprise-grade Viewers. Most of the desktop open source DICOM viewers come with platform restriction, hardware
Visualization
BrainBrowser is an open source JavaScript Library project aiming to provide 3D brain visualization through the web browser. It uses web technologies like HTML5, WebGL and web-ready 3D visualization frameworks. BrainBrowser is a pure Javascript project that runs directly through the browser without the need to install or configure other
DICOM and Medical Radiology
Med3Web is an open source free DICOM 2D/ 3D viewer that supports advanced volume and surface rendering & Segmented Data Visualization. It uses web technologies that are compatible and supported by all modern major web browsers on all known operating systems such as HTML5, Javascript, CSS, NodeJS/ NPM. It leverages
pacs
What is EasyPACS? EasyPACS is an open source PACS server with a simple DICOM viewer, It's built with Java and uses MySQL (Database server) as a database server. EasyPACS aims to provide a free simple easy-to-setup and manage PACS solution for healthcare enterprise that allows the developer to
DICOM and Medical Radiology
Gimias is an open source framework for medical imaging analysis and simulation, The term "framework" indicates its core users, developers, and researchers, as it can be used to develop and generate medical imaging applications as it consists from several utilities to make the production easier. It has been
pacs
Dicoogle is a free open source PACS server, that is built and released as an open source project, It has many developer-friendly features that help developers to extending its functionalities and/ or integrate it easily with their applications/ platforms. As Dicoogle is built with Java, it works smoothly on Windows,
DICOM and Medical Radiology
DicomBrowser: Open source DICOM Batch Metadata Editor and Viewer for Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX. DicomBrowser is a cross-platform DICOM viewer and batch DICOM editor and converter. It's developed by NeuroInformatics Research Group (NRG) at Washington University in St. Louis. DicomBrowser is a lightweight program but with many
Open-source
Open Data is a concept that describes freedom of using the data, as anyone can use, share, redistribute, or republish it.
Open-source
Enterprise video conference services are expensive, though they come with ease of use and implementation, the end-user does not own his data. However, there are many enterprise-grade open source alternatives which come with powerful community support of developers and end-users. Open source alternatives offer many features and integration more than
medical imaging
Note: This article is an Evergreen article. It will receive continues update about the listed applications. You can save it and return to it as a updated resource. What is PACS? PACS in medicine stands for Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) a medical imaging technology which provides economical storage
EMR EHR - Medical Records
Note: This article is an Evergreen article. It will receive continues update about the listed applications. You can save it and return to it as a updated resource. Electronic Medical Records (EMR) , Electronic Health Records (EHR), and Hospital Information system are the basic classifications for clinical and healthcare facilities management
Medical Simulation
Note: This article is an Evergreen article. It will receive continues update about the listed applications. You can save it and return to it as a updated resource. Over than 14 years ago, I wrote in my old blog about medical simulation tools especially surgical based simulator, by that time
EMR EHR - Medical Records
Chikitsa is a PHP-based self-hosted open source EMR/ EHR, built for clinics and small hospitals to manage the clinical flow. It was originated from Surat India. It supports extensions, and integrates with many open source solutions as CMS, like WordPress, and provides SMS integration support for patients. Features Appointments management
DICOM and Medical Radiology
DICOM is the international standard for medical images and related information. It defines the formats, and communication protocols for media exchange in radiology, cardiology, radiotherapy and other medical domains. This post is an evergreen post aiming to provide developers with the most used and maintained DICOM libraries and frameworks in
ERP
There are many open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, they were designed to support companies on different sizes, however, most of them don't consider hospitals as their customers, and not following many health-care guidelines considering privacy.
DICOM and Medical Radiology
OpenDICOM.NET is a Cross-platform open source DICOM development library for .NET, It provides an extensive DICOM library for C#/ .NET and Mono framework, among other useful tools to build extensive DICOM applications for multiple platforms. A Cross-platform Just because OpenDICOM was built using Microsoft doesn't mean it
Articles
There are many healthcare and medical solution built on top of open source technologies, Like open source languages, frameworks, and libraries. However, this article is about to complete platforms designed to provide developers with what they need to build usable apps and extend the functionalities of the platforms. Building on