ReviewYearbook of medical informatics2022
Open Source Digital Health Software for Resilient, Accessible and Equitable Healthcare Systems.
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- The impact of climate change on vulnerable populations in pediatrics: opportunities for AI, digital health, and beyond-a scoping review and selected case studies.Pediatric research · 2025Article
- Increasing the inclusivity of digital health co-production: an integrative review.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Review
- Accuracy of pelvic bone segmentation for 3d printing: a study of segmentation accuracy based on anatomic landmarks to evaluate the influence of the observer.3D printing in medicine · 2024Article
- Human Factors and Organizational Issues: Contributions from 2022.Yearbook of medical informatics · 2023Article
- The Global Health Informatics landscape and JAMIA.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2023Review
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8 authors at 7 institutions in 7 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the impact of open-source projects on making healthcare systems more resilient, accessible and equitable.
methodsIn response to the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) call for working group contributions for the IMIA Yearbook, the Open Source Working Group (OSWG) conducted a rapid review of current open source digital health projects to illustrate how they can contribute to making healthcare systems more resilient, accessible and equitable. We sought case studies from the OSWG membership to illustrate these three concepts and how open source software (OSS) addresses these concepts in the real world. These case studies are discussed against the background of literature identified through the rapid review.
resultsTo illustrate the concept of resilience, we present case studies from the adoption of District Health Information Software version 2 (DHIS2) for managing the Covid pandemic in Rwanda, and the adoption of the OpenEHR open Health IT standard. To illustrate accessibility, we show how open source design systems for user interface design have been used by governments to ensure accessibility of digital health services for patients and healthy individuals, and by the OpenMRS community to standardise their user interface design. Finally, to illustrate the concept of equity, we describe the OpenWHO framework and two open source digital health projects, GNU Health and openIMIS, that both aim to reduce health inequities through the use of open source digital health software.
conclusionThis review has demonstrated that open source software addresses many of the challenges involved in making healthcare more accessible, equitable and resilient in high and low income settings.
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