Abstract
Open Source Software(OSS) has driven the revolution of information technology. Although, most of the OSSs have been developed by volunteer community, some commercial companies recently tend to proceed development of open source software for commercial use.
OSS has now been utilized in medicine. It is anticipated that has effect to cut off the high cost of medical infomation system. The development history of OSS in medicine starts from 1970 in the world. In Japan, Japan medical association has promoted their information infrastructure as OSS in the ORCA project.
Nevertheless, there are much problem on the medical use of OSS, such as medical standard license is not compatible for OSS license. For the promotion of OSS in medicine, we must going on a deregulation program on medical informatics, and contribute not only in medical use but also in a whole OSS community as a member.
