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Taha Kass-Hout, MD, MSNicolás di TadaOctober 2008
Using Open-Source Software for Public Health
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OPEN SOURCE AND FREE SOFTWARE
“Open Source” was coined to avoid the confusion with economic context
Emphasis is on freedom to use, modify and distribute the source code
Open Source does not mean free
“Free” refers to no cost and the freedom to use the software
There are several license models
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LICENSE MODELS
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BUSINESS MODEL
Where does a commercial company fit here? Build and tie together several open source
packages Provide tested open source solutions and
customer support
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OPEN SOURCE BENEFITS
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OPEN SOURCE CHALLENGES
May lack a complete documentation No risk but reputation in releasing a product
that is not production ready No support contract and the creator has no
obligation to provide any support The project might get abandoned
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WHAT TO LOOK FOR?
Commercial companies giving implementations, consulting and support
Community activity Project history and reputation Success stories Documentation
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OPEN SOURCE SAMPLE APPLICATIONS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
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BIOCASTER•A collaborative research project
•Infectious diseases and chemicals detection and tracking
•Feature extraction
•Open source and multi-lingual taxonomy (version 2.0 released)
•KML files available for use in Google Earth
•New links to GoPubMed
http://biocaster.nii.ac.jp
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TRANSTAT•Test for the presence of human-to-human transmission (or animal-to-animal in veterinary settings)
•Estimate epidemiologic characteristics of the disease
https://www.epimodels.org/midas/transtat.do
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MIRTH: HL7 INTERFACE•Platform neutral
•Evolving GUI interface
•Bidirectional messaging
•Remote configuration
•Mirth hardware solutions (Pico, Appliances)
•Uses open source a light-weight messaging framework (Mule)
http://www.mirth.org
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INSTEDD: RIFF AND RNA•Riff: Collaboration platform
•RNA: Human collaboration and machine learning for early disease detection and prediction
http://riff.instedd.org
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WEKA•A collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining in Java
•Tools for data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, and visualization
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka
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PENTAHO•Reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining and workflow.http://www.pentaho.com
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CABIG™: NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS GRID •A model for large scale collaborative development
•All new projects must be open access and open source
•Compatibility Guidelines (Legacy, Bronze, Silver and Gold) assure that applications meet minimum interoperability requirements.
•Shared data standards repository, sharing and reusing of object classes for applications across the grid. Large suite of applications in development
https://cabig.nci.nih.gov
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SAHANA DISASTER MANAGEMENT•Sahana = “relief” in Sinhalese
•Person registry
•GIS Mapping
•Event communications
•Some support provided by Google’s open source initiativehttp://cvs.opensource.lk/index.php
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Q&A
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THANK YOU!
Taha Kass-Hout, MD, MShttp://www.instedd.org [email protected]://taha.instedd.org
Nicolás di Tadahttp://[email protected]://weblogs.manas.com.ar/ndt/
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REFERENCES Open Source License References
http://www.opensource.org/licenses http://openacs.org/about/licensing/open-source-licensing
Open Source References http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/open-source-life-how-the-
open-movement-will-change-everything.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source http://www.opensource.org/
Open Source and Public Health References Open Source Development for Public Health: A Primer with Examples of
Existing Enterprise Ready Open Source Applications in Turner (2006) http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/wiki/index.php/
Open_Source_Software_for_Public_Health http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_healthcare_software http://www.epha.org/a/320 A Quick Survey of Open Source Software for Public Health Organizations
in Mirabito and Kass-Hout (2007)