Open Health Tools gets first big donation

It's called Open HIE, or Open Health Information Exchange. It consists of modules to link a master record to personal information, and to retrieve records from known locations.

The donor is the California Healthcare Foundation, and the donation was midwifed by two important open source companies, CollabNet and Palamida.

CollabNet provided its development platform to the project, and Palamida has already done a code review on the donated code base.

The software itself is descended from code used to create the failed Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange in 2006. The idea of Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) has since spread nationwide.