Chair:
- Tom Kane
Main Objectives
- to help replicate the success of free/libre and open source projects in the health informatics domain, in particular those within education, research, clinical practice and administration
- to build a repository of knowledge about free/libre and open source developments of relevance to the health informatics domain
- to develop an Open Source Market Place
- to explore the implications of digital rights management, digital signatures, copyright and intellectual property issues
- to liaise with other organizations and groups with related or similar objectives
Relevant Activities 2017
- Contribution to Informatics for Health 2017/MIE 2017, Manchester, UK
- Support Open Source Village at Med-e-Tel 2017
- Maintenance of MedFLOSS database
- Coorganization of IWEEE 2017 and GNUHealthCon 2017, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- Review of state of FLOSS in health care on a global level
- Further promotion of FLOSS in health care in Europe as well as on a global level
Activities planned for 2018
- Contribution to Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) 2018
- Maintenance of MedFLOSS database
- Further Collaboration with other working groups (e.g. AMIA OS WG, IMIA OS WG, ISfTeH CCTOS WG and IFIP OSS WG
- Co-organizaton of IWEEE 2018, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Relevant Publications
- Karopka T, Schmuhl H, Demski H. Free/Libre Open Source Software in Health Care: A Review. Healthc Inform Res. 2014 Jan;20(1):11–22. Retrieved from : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24627814
- Schmuhl, H., Heinze, O., & Bergh, B. (2013). Use of Open Source Software in Health Care Delivery – Results of a Qualitative Field Study. Contribution of the EFMI LIFOSS Working Group. Yearbook of medical informatics, 8(1), 107–13. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23974556
- Paton C, Karopka T. The Role of Free/Libre and Open Source Software in Learning Health Systems. Yearb Med Inform. 8. Mai 2017;26(1). Retrieved from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28480476
If you want to become a member of the LIFOSS Working Group, please contact with the Chair of the Working Group