Medgpl

This wiki is dedicated to GPL medical software. You can help by editing this page.

= MedGPL Manifesto (draft) =
 * 1) To make the best possible medical decisions, health professionnals should have access to the best algorithms and the latest software.
 * 2) The cost of a software should not be a question when it comes to selecting a technique or an other.
 * 3) Making a decision based on a black box algorithm is a leap of faith no one should have to do.

= The basics =
 * What's a wiki?
 * What's GPL?

= Content of the wiki =

Software needs of the medical community
It is necessary to establish the software needs of the medical community and try to find solutions to those needs.

Multi-modality Imaging Workstation

 * Image database
 * DICOM network services (store, query/retreive, print, etc.)
 * Sophisticated and customisable image viewer
 * Image processing algorithms
 * Analysis and quantification algorithms

PACS Server
PACS stands for Picture Archiving and Communication System.
 * DICOM query
 * DICOM database
 * Archiving system
 * Backup system

Medico-administrative Information Systems

 * Admission/Discharge/Transfer System (ADT)
 * Hospital Information System (HIS)
 * Laboratory Information System (LIS)
 * Radiology Information System (RIS)
 * Electronic Health Record (EHR)

List of GPL medical software
Our interest here should be all Open Soure and Free software that are compatible whith the GPL licence. If one day, we have all we need to make a Medical Linux Distriution, it should be released under the GPL licence.

DCMTK
DCMTK stands for DICOM Toolkit. It is an open source library that implements a large part of the DICOM standrard. Delvelopped by OFFIS in ANSI C and C++, it compiles on MS Windows and UNIX (including Linux, Solaris, QNX, IRIX, Free/Net/OpenBSD and MacOS X). It requires the following external libraries: zlib, libtiff, libpng, libxml2 and libiconv. Home page

OFFIS also offer other interesting open source packages that remain to be documented here.

Mediboard
Mediboard is a Healthcare Information System open source based on web technologies. Mediboard Homepage

XMedCon
XMedCon is a GPL medical image conversion utility and library. Supported formats (read and write): ACR/NEMA 2.0, Analyze (SPM), Concorde µPET, DICOM 3.0, CTI ECAT 6/7, GIF87a/89a, InterFile 3.3, INW (RUG), PNG. Runs on Unix systems, reqires Glib, Gtk+.and GdkPixbuf. Homepage.

Priorities to GPL medical software developement
Priorities could be established based on needs, feasability, interests, and other citerion.

Legal issues of GPL medical software

 * 1) How to avoid using concepts that are copyrighted?
 * 2) What about certification, liability issues?
 * 3) Is any type of legal warranties possible in a GPL medical software?
 * 4) Can the GNU GPL cover such things as Medical innovations in software?