Anticlue

Eclipse Project Proposal – Open Healthcare Framework

Eclipse.org has a proposal to build an Open Healthcare Framework proposal is to build an interoperable, extensible, open-source healthcare framework on top of the Eclipse platform. It is a very ambitious project to produce a framework that addresses the needs of not only the healthcare industry, but government regulators, patients and insurance providers.

Here is a visual schema of the proposed project.

There are some large interested parties within this solution, such as the DOD, Veterans Health Administration, and Kaiser-Permanente.

This will be something to watch in the future, the newest thing since Soarian. What would really be interesting is if the VA contributes its latest projects, HealtheVet and CoreFLS to the opensource community. Rumor has it that the project funding this year isn’t going to be anywhere near what is needed.

So here is a proposal, there has been alot of discussions about healthcare it in america, how it lacks standardization, and is very costly. I think the idea of a well-constructed opensource system may be what the doctor ordered - just be sure to enclude the mobility aspect of a clinicians life.