TY - JOUR T1 - Open Health Tools: Tooling for Interoperable Healthcare JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Skip McGaughey A1 - Ken Rubin AB - The Open Health Tools initiative is creating an ecosystem focused on the production of software tooling that promotes the exchange of medical information across political, geographic, cultural, product, and technology lines. At its core, OHT believes that the availability of high-quality tooling that interoperates will propel the industry forward, enabling organizations and vendors to build products and systems that effectively work together. This will ?raise the interoperability bar? as a result of having tools that just work. To achieve these lofty goals, careful consideration must be made to the constituencies that will be most affected by an OHT-influenced world. This document outlines a vision of OHT?s impact to these stakeholders. It does not explain the OHT process itself or how the OHT community operates. Instead, we place emphasis on the impact of that process within the health industry. The catchphrase ?code is king? underpins this document, meaning that the manifestation of any open source community lies in the products and technology it produces. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/206 IS - November 2008 U1 - Open Health Tools Skip McGaughey is Executive Director of Open Health Tools. Open Heath Tools is a collaborative open source effort between national health agencies, major healthcare providers, researchers, academics, international standards bodies and companies from Australia, Canada, United States, United Kingdom and Europe. Its goal is to develop common healthcare IT products and services and provide software tools and components that accelerate the implementation of electronic health information interoperability. Skip was co-founder of Eclipse, a multi-language, multi-vendor open source platform for tool integration. There are over 800,000 organizations and four million developers using Eclipse. Eclipse pioneered the linkage between building open source software and enabling successful and profitable ecosystems to deliver technology to customers. U2 - EDS Ken Rubin is a senior healthcare architect with a leading systems integrator. His focus is informatics and electronic health records interoperability. He has supported the [US] Veterans Health Administration and the [UK] National Programme for IT. Mr. Rubin chairs committees for the OMG, HL7, Open Health Tools, and the Healthcare Services Specification Project (HSSP), and has been involved in healthcare for over a decade. ER -