The State and Profile of Open Source Software Projects in health and medical informatics

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 457-472

  Janamanchi, Balaji ^a   Katsamakas, Evangelos ^b   Raghupathi, Wullianallur ^b   Gao, Wei ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health and medical informatics; License type; Open source software (OSS); Sponsorship

Indexed keywords

DATA FORMAT; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; END USERS; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KEY VARIABLES; LICENSE TYPE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL SCIENCE; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE (OSS); OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; PROJECT SUCCESS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOURCEFORGE; SPONSORSHIP;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; OPEN SYSTEMS;

HEALTH;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; LICENCE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 67349228493     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2009.02.006     Document Type: Article

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