Key Concepts

1. Clinical Expert Operating System‎
2. Medical Innovation Inducement Prizes‎

Key Resources

• check out the Compassionate Frome Project !

Articles

• Biomedical patents reduce innovation by 30%

• Towards a New Participatory Citizen Science Contract for Science Data Mining and Biobanking. By Krishanu Saha.

1. Open Source Drug Discovery: Finding a Niche (or Maybe Several) Stephen Maurer [1]
2. Can Open Source R&D Reinvigorate Drug Research? Bernard Munos Nature Reviews Drug Research
3. Health Commons: Therapy Development in a Networked World John Wilbanks and Marty Tenenbaum [2]
4. Rai, A., 2005, Open and Collaborative Research: A New Model for Biomedicine, in Hahn, R. (ed.) Intellectual Property Rights in Frontier Industries, AEI-Brookings Press 2005), Washington DC
5. Maurer, S., A. Rai, and A. Sali, 2004, Cures for Tropical Disease: Is Open Source an Answer? Public Library of Science: Medicine, 1, 56.
6. From Open Source to Open Sourcing Digital Medical Devices. Glyn Moody
7. Killed by Code: Software Transparency in Implantable Medical Devices. Karen Sandler. [3]

Directories

1. 50 successfull open source projects that are changing medicine
2. List of Open Source Medicine books

Recommended Links

• http://blog.openmedicine.ca/
• http://groups.google.com/group/opensourcemedicine/
• http://medicinapolispecialistica.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/open-source-medicine-as-the-next-insanely-great-thing/
• Treating Health Care as a Commons
• http://www.dovepress.com/open-access-emergency-medicine-journal
• http://www.betterhumans.com/blogs/alexandra_carmichael/archive/2008/09/15/Open-Source-Health-Research-Plan-.aspx
• 7 of the Best Free Linux Medical Imaging Software
• 6 of the Best Free Linux Electronic Medical Records Software
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