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      A study of clinically related open source software projects.

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          Abstract

          Open source software development has recently gained significant interest due to several successful mainstream open source projects. This methodology has been proposed as being similarly viable and beneficial in the clinical application domain as well. However, the clinical software development venue differs significantly from the mainstream software venue. Existing clinical open source projects have not been well characterized nor formally studied so the 'fit' of open source in this domain is largely unknown. In order to better understand the open source movement in the clinical application domain, we undertook a study of existing open source clinical projects. In this study we sought to characterize and classify existing clinical open source projects and to determine metrics for their viability. This study revealed several findings which we believe could guide the healthcare community in its quest for successful open source clinical software projects.

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          Journal
          AMIA Annu Symp Proc
          AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
          1942-597X
          1559-4076
          2005
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Biomedical Informatics Research and Consulting Service, UC Davis School of Medicine, CA, USA.
          Article
          58323
          1560618
          16779056
          d4aeacc9-09d3-45ce-ae38-ea7671370b62
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