# Open health sources

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## Post #1 by @mayfield.g.kev

Original https://github.com/openhealthhub-org/openhealth

## Enterprise Interoperability – Analysis and Design

| Name                                                          | Category               | Description                                                                          |
|---------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [WHO SMART Guidelines](https://www.who.int/teams/digital-health-and-innovation/smart-guidelines)                                      | Standards Organisation | Defines reusable digital health components and implementation guidance to support interoperable health systems.                                           |
| [Integration the Healthcare Enterprise](https://www.ihe.net/) | Standards Organisation | Develops integration profiles to enable interoperability between healthcare systems. |

IHE Domains:

- Devices
- Endoscopy
- IT Infrastructure
- [Pathology and Laboratory Medicine](https://www.ihe.net/ihe_domains/ihe_pathology_and_laboratory_medicine/)
- [Patient Care Coordination](https://www.ihe.net/ihe_domains/patient_care_coordination/)
- Pharmacy
- Quality, Research and Public Health
- Radiation Oncology
- Radiology

WHO SMART Guidelines – Focus Areas:

- Antenatal care
- HIV
- Family planning
- Tuberculosis (TB)
- Child health in humanitarian emergencies
- Immunisations
- Birth defects surveillance
- Self-monitoring of blood pressure during pregnancy
- Postnatal care

## Interoperability Engineering

| Name                                                                   | Category | Description        |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------|--------------------| 
| [Open integration engine](https://openintegrationengine.org/)          | Software | Open-source healthcare integration engine. |
| [Apache Camel](https://camel.apache.org/manual/faq/what-is-camel.html) | Software | Integration framework for routing and mediating data between systems. |
| [HL7](https://www.hl7.org/)                                                                | Standards Organisation | Global authority behind FHIR, HL7 v2, and CDA messaging standards. |
| [openHIE](https://ohie.org/)                                                            | Initiative | Community-driven architecture framework for national health information exchanges. |
| [GS1 Healthcare](https://www.gs1.org/industries/healthcare)                                                     | Standards Organisation | Global standards for identification (e.g., barcodes) across healthcare supply chains. |

## Application Development 

| Name                                | Category  | Description                                           |
|-------------------------------------|-----------|-------------------------------------------------------|
| [SMART](https://smarthealthit.org/) | Standards | Framework for building interoperable healthcare applications on top of FHIR APIs. | 
| [OpenMRS](https://openmrs.org/)     | Platform | Open-source electronic medical record system used globally.|
| [DHIS2](https://dhis2.org/)                           | Platform | Open-source health information system for reporting and analytics.|

## Data Modeling

|Name | Category | Description|
|--- | --- | ---|
|[HL7 FHIR UKCore](https://simplifier.net/guide/uk-core-implementation-guide-stu2?version=current) | Standards | UK-specific FHIR profiles for consistent data exchange.|
|[openEHR](https://openehr.org/) | Standards Organisation | Open standard for structured, vendor-neutral health data models.|
|[SNOMED CT](https://www.snomed.org/) | Terminology Standard | Comprehensive clinical terminology for encoding health concepts.|
|[LOINC](https://loinc.org/) | Terminology Standard | Standard for lab tests and clinical observations.|
|[ICD-10 / ICD-11](https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/classification-of-diseases) | Classification Standard | Disease classification system used globally.|
|[Professional Records Standards Body](https://theprsb.org/)		 | Standards Organisation | Evidence based standards for health records|

## Data Engineering

| Name                                             | Category | Description                                                                                                        |
|--------------------------------------------------|----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [Apache Airflow](https://airflow.apache.org/)    | Software | Platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows. | 
| [dbt (data build tool)](https://www.getdbt.com/) | Software | Transformation framework for analytics engineering.|
| [Apache Kafka](https://kafka.apache.org/)                                 | Software |Distributed event streaming platform for real-time data pipelines. |

## Data Analytics / AI

| Name                                             | Category                | Description                                                                            |
|--------------------------------------------------|-------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [Apache Superset](https://superset.apache.org/)  | Software                | Open-source platform for data exploration and visualisation. | 
| [medspaCy](https://github.com/medspacy/medspacy) | AI / NLP                | Clinical natural language processing toolkit built on spaCy.|
| [OHDSI / OMOP](https://ohdsi.org/)               | Initiative / Data Model | Open research community with a common data model for observational health data. |
| [TensorFlow](https://www.tensorflow.org/)                                   | AI Framework            | Open-source machine learning framework (widely used in healthcare AI). |

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