Q&A: Dave Peters on open source adoption within Veterans Affairs

Feds turn over CONNECT health IT project to open-source developer

GNU Health

Work on a free software project for a humanitarian cause

What is Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) in education and how can we get more students involved? HFOSS is open source software that has a humanitarian purpose such as disaster management, health care, economic development, social services, and more. Experience with undergraduate participation in HFOSS shows it can both motivate students and provide excellent learning opportunities. There is also an indication that it can help attract and retain female students.

The state of open source at the VA (Veterans Affairs)

The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the second largest agency of the US federal government. It employs more than 280,000 people, and with an annual budget close to $150 billion it provides health care services to close to 8.7 million patients, and benefits to close to 23 million veterans.

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Where is the federal government on open source adoption and where is it going?

Three college students build a health provider search site in six weeks

In six weeks, a team of three college students with no industry experience and only academic software-specific knowledge, developed and designed a health care provider search system using only open source software. To tell you how they got there, let's start with a little history of open source software in the US federal government workspace.

Jamaican Ministry of Health is the first to adopt free and open source health system nationwide (as covered before)

Power Of Open Source Demonstrated By Successful Response To Electronic Health Record Vulnerability