Why Open Source Software Fits Health IT Infrastructure

Health IT infrastructure is advancing quickly and organizations must keep up with the most up-to-date technology innovations while still trying to save money. Open source software is gaining popularity in the healthcare space because it naturally lends itself to innovation, Red Hat Director of Healthcare Craig Klein told HITInfrastructure.com. “Open source is a methodology on how to develop software,” Klein explained. “The premise behind open source is you have a group of people collaborating on a particular piece of code. For example, if you have someone building an operating system, there may be one hundred thousand people contributing that particular piece of code from thousands of organizations.” The open source community takes the code that’s being worked on and releases it into open source projects.