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OASIS - The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards is a global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business and web service standards. Like many bodies producing open standards, OASIS has a patent disclosure policy requiring participants to disclose intent to apply for software patents for technologies under consideration in the standard. However, this policy does not fully protect the public from potential exploitation of the open process for the preemptive development of a "standard" which confers a monopoly license position. See also FOSS.

ONC - ("onk" or "oh-enn-sea") Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. See also HHS.

ONCHIT - See ONC.

OpenEHR - International not-for-profit Foundation based in Australia and Europe working towards interoperable, life-long electronic health records.

OpenEMed - An open source software toolkit, OpenEMed is a set of healthcare information service components built around the OMG distributed object specifications and HL7 data standards.

Open Source - Software published under a license that generally allows anybody to make a new version of the software, port it to new operating systems and processor architectures, share it with others or market it. The general aim of Open Source software is to let the code be more understandable, modifiable, duplicatable, or simply accessible, while it is still marketable. See also FOSS, GPL.


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	Glossary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z OASIS - The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards is a global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business and web service standards. Like many bodies producing open standards, OASIS has a patent disclosure policy requiring participants to disclose intent to apply for software patents for technologies under consideration in the standard. However, this policy does not fully protect the public from potential exploitation of the open process for the preemptive development of a "standard" which confers a monopoly license position. See also FOSS. ONC - ("onk" or "oh-enn-sea") Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. See also HHS. ONCHIT - See ONC. OpenEHR - International not-for-profit Foundation based in Australia and Europe working towards interoperable, life-long electronic health records. OpenEMed - An open source software toolkit, OpenEMed is a set of healthcare information service components built around the OMG distributed object specifications and HL7 data standards. Open Source - Software published under a license that generally allows anybody to make a new version of the software, port it to new operating systems and processor architectures, share it with others or market it. The general aim of Open Source software is to let the code be more understandable, modifiable, duplicatable, or simply accessible, while it is still marketable. See also FOSS, GPL.

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