OpenEMR Free Open Source Health Records Management

application that can run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and many other platforms.

The latest version was release is OpenEMR 4.2.0.  It  was released on 12/28/14.  The new features are listed here.

OpenEMR is ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR certified and is one of the most popular open source electronic medical records in use today. OpenEMR is supported by a strong community of volunteers and professionals all with the common goal of making OpenEMR a superior alternative to its proprietary counterparts.

The OpenEMR community is dedicated to guarding OpenEMR’s status as a free, open source software solution for medical practices and is dedicated to maintaining a spirit of openness, kindness and cooperation.

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Apache Open Office – Free Download Office Tools

spreadsheets,presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

There are currently over 100,000,000 downloads and counting.  You’ll find the download link at the bottom of the page if you want to skip down.

• Great softwareApache OpenOffice is the result of over twenty years’ software engineering. Designed from the start as a single piece of software, it has a consistency other products cannot match. A completely open development process means that anyone can report bugs, request new features, or enhance the software. The result: Apache OpenOffice does everything you want your office software to do, the way you want it to.
• Easy to useApache OpenOffice is easy to learn, and if you’re already using another office software package, you’ll take to OpenOffice straight away. Our world-wide native-language community means that OpenOffice is probably available and supported in your own language. And if you already have files from another office package – OpenOffice will probably read them with no difficulty.
• and it’s freeBest of all, Apache OpenOffice can be downloaded and used entirely free of any license fees. Like all Apache Software Foundation software, Apache OpenOffice is free to use. Apache OpenOffice is released under the Apache 2.0 License. This means you may use it for any purpose – domestic, commercial, educational, public administration. You may install it on as many computers as you like. You may make copies and give them away to family, friends, students, employees – anyone you like.

[click here to download]

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ClamWin Free Antivirus for your Windows OS

ClamWin Antivirus is a free antivirus solution for Windows PCs. This open-source freeware integrates with Windows Explorer and Microsoft Outlook, schedules scans, and automatically updates virus definitions. It offers good, basic protection without the bells and whistles of premium antivirus packages.

CNET gave ClamWin Antivirus a 5/5 Star rating, which is pretty decent for a tool whether it’s free or not.  There’s over 22 million downloads to date.

ClamWin’s installer let us choose to integrate the program with Explorer and install the Outlookmodule, both of which we selected. Right-clicking the program’s system-tray icon let us configure and update ClamWin as well as schedule scans, display reports, manually check for updates, and attend to other matters.

The program’s main interface is utterly basic but efficient, with a simple tree view for selecting directories to scan. We selected our C drive, and ClamWin performed a thorough scan, turning up a variety of potential issues for us to review, some of which weren’t problems but were worth verifying anyway.

However, it did turn up a suspected Trojan horse. While it probably wasn’t dangerous since we knew its source, we opted to remove it anyway. We could set ClamWin to report findings for manual cleaning, delete suspected files as they’re found, or quarantine them.

When we opened Outlook, ClamWin opened with it, and it showed up on Outlook’s Add-In ribbon; Outlook worked normally under ClamWin’s protection, too.

Good protection is cheap at half the price, and antivirus software is certainly one aspect of PC ownership you shouldn’t scrimp on. Free tools like ClamWin offer basic but viable alternatives to the subscription-based premium tools, many of which rely on automatic conveniences and extras to justify their price tags.

As with any antivirus tool, we strongly recommend reviewing your options and doing some research before you commit to protection of your primary PC. For second PCs, infrequently used machines, and tight budgets, we can recommend ClamWin without hesitation since any decent antivirus freeware is better than no protection at all.

Original article posted HERE at CNET.

[click HERE to download]

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There are three versions of Mango, each geared for a different platform:

-Mango – Desktop – Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux
-webMango – Browser – Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer
-iMango – Mobile – Apple iPad

The latest updates as of this writing are from Dec 2014, so they are fairly recent.  Also the user rating on the website gives it a usability rating of 4/5 Stars.

Key Features:

– Built-in support for DICOM, NIFTI, Analyze, and NEMA-DES formats
– Customizable: Create plugins, custom filters, color tables, file formats, and atlases
– ROI Editing: Threshold and component-based tools for painting and tracing ROIs
– Surface Rendering: Interactive surface models supporting cut planes and overlays
– Image Registration: Semi-automatic image coregistration and manual transform editing
– Image Stacking: Threshold and transparency-based image overlay stacking
– Analysis: Histogram, cross-section, time-series analysis, image and ROI statistics
– Processing: Kernel and rank filtering, arithmetic/logic image and ROI calculators

[click here to download]

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TeamViewer is my favorite free remote access program. It’s filled with features you don’t normally find in similar products, is very easy to use, and works on pretty much any device.

You can download and use TeamViewer on a Windows, Mac, Linux, or mobile device.

More About TeamViewer

• TeamViewer downloads are available for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems
• You can remotely reboot a computer into Safe Mode and then automatically reconnect with TeamViewer
• No router configurations are necessary to setup TeamViewer
• Remote sessions can be recorded to a video file so you can easily review it later
• TeamViewer can share a single application window or the entire desktop with another user
• Files, images, text, folders, and screenshots can be transferred to and from two computers using either the file transfer tool in TeamViewer or the regular clipboard function
• TeamViewer can be used as a portable program for quick access or installed to always accept remote connections

Some additional features:

• Completely free to use (Commercial versions you must pay)
• Supports chat (text, video, and voice over IP)
• Remote printing is allowed
• Supports Wake-on-LAN (WOL)
• No port forwarding configurations are necessary
• Spontaneous support
• Portable version is available so no install is required
• Can control a remote computer through the desktop program, a mobile device, or an Internet browser

[Click HERE to download Team Viewer ]

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It is fully compliant with the DICOM standard for image comunication and image file formats.

OsiriX is able to receive images transferred by DICOM communication protocol from any PACS or imaging modality (C-STORE SCP/SCU, andQuery/Retrieve : C-MOVE SCU/SCP, C-FIND SCU/SCP, C-GET SCU/SCP, WADO) .

OsiriX has been specifically designed for navigation and visualization of multimodality and multidimensional images: 2D Viewer, 3D Viewer, 4D Viewer (3D series with temporal dimension, for example: Cardiac-CT) and5D Viewer (3D series with temporal and functional dimensions, for example: Cardiac-PET-CT).

The 3D Viewer offers all modern rendering modes: Multiplanar reconstruction (MPR), Surface Rendering, Volume Rendering and Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP). All these modes support 4D data and are able to produce image fusion between two different series (PET-CT and SPECT-CT display support).

OsiriX is at the same time a DICOM PACS workstation for imaging and an image processing softwarefor medical research (radiology and nuclear imaging), functional imaging, 3D imaging, confocal microscopy and molecular imaging.

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K-PACS Server

• Store SCP (Service Class Provider)

K-PACS Viewer

Server connection and file import/export:

• Query/Retrieve SCU (Service Class User) on patient, study and series level
• Move SCU
• Store SCU from local K-PACS database or external DICOM data (e.g. CDs) to target archives
• Supported DICOM data compression: uncompressed, JPEG-Lossless (J1), JPEG-lossy (J4)
• Export of native DICOM data (with option for anonymization) e.g. into the currentDicomWorks folder
• Format conversion from DICOM to JPEG and Bitmap and vice versa
• 2-Click email export of DICOM studies with or without anonymization, compression or encryption
• Printing of DICOM images on Windows® printers
• Possibility to modify DICOM tags

Viewer:

• Regular tools: cine, zoom, magnifier, pan, windowing
• Measuring: distance, density (HE)
• Compare / tile-screen mode: between series of one study, different studies or different patient
• comfortable series preview bar with thumbnails

Download HERE

System requirements:

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Wireshark

Wireshark development thrives thanks to the contributions of networking experts across the globe. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998.

Some of the features of WireShark included:

• Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time
• Live capture and offline analysis
• Standard three-pane packet browser
• Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others
• Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utility
• The most powerful display filters in the industry
• Rich VoIP analysis
• Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump (libpcap), Pcap NG, Catapult DCT2000, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, Microsoft Network Monitor, Network General Sniffer® (compressed and uncompressed), Sniffer® Pro, and NetXray®, Network Instruments Observer, NetScreen snoop, Novell LANalyzer, RADCOM WAN/LAN Analyzer, Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor, Tektronix K12xx, Visual Networks Visual UpTime, WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek, and many others
• Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly
• Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others (depending on your platform)
• Decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2
• Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis
• Output can be exported to XML, PostScript®, CSV, or plain text

You can Download WireShark HERE.

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With Nagios you can:

• Monitor your entire IT infrastructure
• Spot problems before they occur
• Know immediately when problems arise
• Share availability data with stakeholders
• Detect security breaches
• Plan and budget for IT upgrades
• Reduce downtime and business losses

You can download all of the project components by clicking the links below:

• Get Nagios Core – Contains the core monitoring engine and a basic web interface.
• Get Nagios Plugins – Allows you to monitor services, applications, metrics, and more.
• Get Nagios Frontends – Enhance your Nagios experience with additional frontends.
• Get Nagios Addons – Trick out your Nagios install with hundreds of addons.

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Iguana is able to support numerous data formats to allow you to receive, transform and route any data you want. HL7 v2, HL7 v3, CDA, CCD, X12, NCPDP, DICOM, EDI, XML, Delimited text, and more.

You are also able to connect to almost everything possible as Iguana natively supports a wide number of transfer protocols to ensure you can connect to any system. LLP, HTTP/HTTPS, FTP/FTPS/SFTP, Web Services (SOAP, RESTful), Database, File system, TCP/IP.

Iguana also supports all major databases as well.

You can download Iguana by [Clicking Here].  This will direct you to their download site.  There’s also lots of video and tutorials there are well.  Everything you need to get up to speed.

This is a great Free method of learning about interfaces or using it for troubleshooting.

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