CollabNet providing world-class development environment and Palamida
securing against open source software vulnerabilities
Open Health Tools (OHT)
today announced it has accepted a donation from the California
HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) of key software components from a $10
million health information data exchange project. CHCF provided the open
source-format software code to OHT, a community of information
technology and health care participants, to help accelerate
establishment of regional health information exchanges, a critical but
often missing piece of the health care delivery system. Information
about the Open Health Information Exchange project (openHIE) can be
found at https://openhie.projects.openhealthtools.org/.
"CollabNet
facilitated CHCF's efforts and will support
all future code donations to OHT. We are providing a world-class
development platform and online community services to enable OHT's
members and distributed project teams to collaborate in an open and
secure environment," said Tony de la Lama,
vice president of Corporate Strategy and Marketing at CollabNet. "The
CollabNet platform is a perfect fit for the vision of a global Health
Information Exchange System where health organizations anywhere in the
world are able to collaborate, share code and jointly develop software
and new technology standards."
Palamida conducted software
composition analysis on the California HealthCare Foundation code base
and provided a complete inventory of all open source and third-party
projects and versions in use for identification of known vulnerabilities
and intellectual property ownership. "Open Health Tools is taking an
important step towards expanding the use of open source in the health
care market," said Mark Tolliver, Palamida CEO. "We're proud to have
been chosen by OHT to assure its community that its projects are
enterprise-ready."
According to a March 2006 commissioned study
conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of CHCF: "Successful
development of open source software for health care will require viable
developer communities. Such communities, which share an interest in a
particular type of software, are the engines that drive open source
projects."
CHCF originally supported development of the contributed software for
the Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange (SBCCDE), one of the nation's
first regional health information exchanges.