Tuesday, January 27, 2009

OpenELIS: Open Source Laboratory Information System (LIS)

OpenELIS is a robust Enterprise Laboratory Information System built around an extensible and scalable framework. OpenELIS is designed and developed through the collaborative efforts of Public Health Laboratories to accommodate business processes that are common to all public health laboratories; encompassing clinical, environmental, newborn screening, and animal testing.

The goal of the OpenELIS team is to develop a state of the art system that is economically sustainable by reducing both initial investment and ongoing maintenance costs. By using an open source approach, we ensure that the project will continue to evolve and meet the changing needs of the community.

The project has potential to become a viable product that can be used in clinical laboratories. It uses cross platform programming language Java and open source database PostgreSQL. One of their goals is to be able to connect to EMRs using connectivity standards.

http://openelis.uhl.uiowa.edu/


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