OPAL is designed to make writing transactional digital services for a clinical environment easy.
It builds on established Open Source technologies with a track record of helping developers build easy to maintain, robust applications.
Most notably, it makes use of Django, Angular JS and Bootstrap.
From there, OPAL provides you with a common batteries-included architecture for writing healthcare applications, and a composable modular framework that takes advantage of generic, re-usable components.
OPAL is entirely Open (Source & Governance) as are the wide library of plugins.
OPAL was created by Open Health Care UK, because it makes Healthcare IT Less Bad.
We'd love you to get involved by using what we make, reporting bugs/suggesting improvements, and fixing bugs/making improvements. Please refer to the CONTRIBUTING file.
The documentation is a work in progress.
We'd love any feedback or contributions to it !
Latest version is at http://opal.openhealthcare.org.uk/docs/
Roadmap: https://github.com/openhealthcare/opal/wiki/Roadmap
Discussion List: https://groups.google.com/forum/?ohc-dev#!forum/ohc-opal
Access: availability of the latest source code, developer support mechanisms, public roadmap, and transparency of decision-making
Development: the ability of developers to influence the content and direction of the project
Derivatives: the ability for developers to create and distribute derivatives of the source code in the form of spin-off projects, handsets or applications.
Community: a community structure that does not discriminate between developers
GNU Affero GPLv3
http://www.openhealthcare.org.uk
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