Medical: Creating a Secure open Platform for Health Information

As the open source community continues to grow and thrive through the popularity of such enterprise ready platforms as Red Hat, the number of open source medical applications also grows with it. The truth is, medical software is expensive.

International medical technology leader Elekta is basing new generations of secure medical devices on the LynxOS-SE real-time operating system. Meanwhile, a proof-of-concept combining Intel[R], LynuxWorks{tm] and Portwell technology uses virtualization and the LynxSecure hypervisor to achieve safety-critical security in a medical wireless-sensor system.

Added focus to medical tech efforts will apply embedded leader's decades of Linux, RTOS expertise from mission-critical computing in military, avionics environments

By now it’s common knowledge that startups aiming at the medical/healthcare industry are pretty hot prospects. This is a sector waiting to be super-charged by cloud applications and devices.

New software from Misys Open Source Solutions promises to provide what could be the world's first fully open source, standards-based platform for exchanging health information. The Misys Connect Exchange software was demonstrated and successfully tested last week in Chicago at IHE Connectathon, the ...

New software from Misys Open Source Solutions promises to provide what could be the world's first fully open source, standards-based platform for exchanging health information.

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I'm happy to announce the first Release Candidate version of Medical, the Free Health and Hospital Information System. This version is the result of over 2 years of hard work, and I see it as the starting point for a modern, scalable Free Health and Hospital Information System.

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