01503nas a2200133   4500008004100000022001400041245006000055210005900115260004200174520108200216100002001298700001501318856003601333       2008                        eng d  a1913-610200aOpen Health Tools: Tooling for Interoperable Healthcare0 aOpen Health Tools Tooling for Interoperable Healthcare  aOttawabTalent First Networkc11/20083 aThe Open Health Tools initiative is creating an ecosystem focused on the production of software tooling that promotes the exchange of medical information across political, geographic, cultural, product, and technology lines. At its core, OHT believes that the availability of high-quality tooling that interoperates will propel the industry forward, enabling organizations and vendors to build products and systems that effectively work together. This will ?raise the interoperability bar? as a result of having tools that just work.

To achieve these lofty goals, careful consideration must be made to the constituencies that will be most affected by an OHT-influenced world. This document outlines a vision of OHT?s impact to these stakeholders. It does not explain the OHT process itself or how the OHT community operates. Instead, we place emphasis on the impact of that process within the health industry. The catchphrase ?code is king? underpins this document, meaning that the manifestation of any open source community lies in the products and technology it produces.1 aMcGaughey, Skip1 aRubin, Ken  uhttp://timreview.ca/article/206