Orthanc revolutionises patient care
A Doctor in IT at the University of Liège and researcher at the Department of Physical Medicine at Liège University Hospital, the Belgian Sébastien Jodogne has just completed an IT achievement that has attracted interest from Europe and America. He has designed Orthanc, open source medical imaging software which was presented with the Award for the Advancement of Free Software in Boston.
Already downloaded almost ten thousand times, the programme has therefore been awarded the world's most important prize for open source software.
This free software improves and automates medical imaging flows between departments in the same hospital but also between different hospitals. Using Orthanc, it is therefore possible to overcome the obstacles related to the interoperability of often "proprietary" software.
The award was presented to Sébastien Jodogne by the Free Software Foundation of the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Every year this award is presented to an individual who has "made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software".