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Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Useful Documents and Links

Started by Joaquin Blaya, PhD on 06 Jul 2011

This is a page to share documents about experiences and guides in implementing Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). These documents do not necessarily have to be in health.

Keywords: open source  Software 

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Joaquin Blaya, PhD

In 2006 the Swedish National Police launched a project that led to the implementation and migration from an ICT infrastructure based on proprietary products to an ICT server and database platform based on Open Source software and open standards. The previous ICT platform was very costly and obliged the Police to stick with a hand
full of vendors. The aim was therefore to cut costs, avoid vendor lock-in, achieve better performance, and introduce open standards.
Before ideas were realized, a thorough study was conducted to calculate costs and benefits. This study foresaw cost savings of up to fifty percent over a five years period compared to the proprietary hardware and software in place at this time, while improving performance at the same time.

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Joaquin Blaya, PhD

The Norwegian Mapping Authority (Statens Kartverk) is the central organisation for the provision of mapping images to most public bodies and organisations in Norway.
After experiencing a vast increase in requests for their services in 2006 and 2007, the Mapping Authority also had to deal with an increasingly overstrained IT infrastructure.
The licenses for their infrastructure however were very costly, and acquiring additional licenses would only increase the financial burden consistently in the future. The Mapping Authority therefore chose to employ an IT infrastructure based on open source software solutions,
which were free of licensing costs and which proved to be much better, performance wise. In the process of introducing the new IT infrastructure, the team had to build up own expertise in order to maintain a functioning system.
With the help of online communities, this has been a great success for the Mapping Authority.

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Joaquin Blaya, PhD

This report examines the development and distribution of open source software, and describes how it may help health care providers overcome the problem of incompatible IT systems that can disrupt the smooth exchange of information.

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Joaquin Blaya, PhD

This is the UK government plan to promote the use of open source and open standards within their government. It has data about the use of open source within the UK and describes how government offices should purchase and use open source software.

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Joaquin Blaya, PhD

A great document (from the US perspective) of why open source is best for health care in affordability, interoperability, and adoption.

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5:43 PM, 6 Jul 2011 | Permalink

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Joaquin Blaya, PhD

Presentation given at the World Bank about Brasilian public policies for open source and the open source portal that Brasil has created.

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Mathias Lin

A good, well structured overview of all healthcare open source software out there: http://www.medfloss.org/

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Joaquin Blaya, PhD

This is a guide by and for the Australian government about the purchase and use of open source. It's description is
It provides an introduction to open source software (OSS) as well as background information on the risks and benefits of using, distributing and developing OSS and guidanceto assist agencies understand, analyse, plan for and deploy OSS.

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