The OpenReg Project
by Matthew ~ August 7th, 2007. Filed under: Tools.Aurelia Bustos has started a very worthwhile project called the OpenReg Project. Bustos “has started working on the development of an open-source project aimed to deliver free web based tools for the collection of tumor data needed for hospital tumor registries in Europe.” Many open source projects are inspired by bureaucratic inefficiencies and frustrations. The project plan is to leverage HL7 “for information interchange as well as will explore the leverage of semantic web technologies and cancer ontologies for automated data collection.”
I hope that as healthcare becomes a more global concern that others will support such initiatives in the open source space. Healthcare (whether software or service) will inevitably be free for everyone someday. Until then, we can support the ingenuity and passion of the few that take up the challenge of trying to make the world a little bit better than it is. Stop by and see if there is a way you can help: