%0 Journal Article %T Open source and international health informatics: placebo or panacea? %A David Pepper %A Mike Bainbridge %A Nikki Shaw %A Nilesh Jain %A Pieter Houwink %A Tim Cook %J - %D -1 %X The authors explore the history of open source software and how the future of this paradigm can affect global changes to healthcare informatics. They identify four key requirements: 1 to establish an international health informatics open source (IHI-OS) community 2 to develop a kernel that is broad enough but also provides sufficient detail to be usable across international boundaries and across medical disciplines 3 to develop a business case for international health informatics open source 4 to develop international standards %K health informatics %K open source %K standards %U https://hijournal.bcs.org/index.php/jhi/article/view/240