[Fsf-friends] free software for better and cheaper diagnostics

Raman.P raamanp@[EMAIL-PROTECTED]
Mon May 21 09:52:48 IST 2007


--- Kussh Singh <kussh.singh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anybody know of free software solutions in the field of
> MRI/cat/radiology scanning/diagnostics? Most of India's hospitals
> use
> imported hardware/software to do this medical diagnostic work and
> most of
> the time the machines and technologies used are really outdated and
> unnecessarily monopolised due to the licence raj of the govt which
> pushes up

Free Software requires a special thrust on medical informatics. We
need lot of catching up todo. Surprisingly the most of the medical
informatics revolves round two well documented standards dicom and
hl7. Still free software presence is not much.

Following links may through some light
a.For dicom image viewers and related
http://www.sph.sc.edu/comd/rorden/dicom.html#links
b.debian med project at debian.org

c.general link to medical related projects
http://www.minoru-development.com/en/healthlinks.html

  There is huge potential in developing software which interface the
medical equipments like auto-analysers used in clinical testing.

  On a related note one of the member of ILUG, Chennai has started a
project called gmedcon at sourceforege(http://gmedcon.sf.net). This
aims to improve existing dicom viewer xmedcon to gtk2 with features a
cardiologist will require.He needs help in coding.

Raman.P


		
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