A collection of open source resources around the internet related to Emergency Medical Services. This is mostly about software, hardware or protocols, but there are some educational resources as well.
- A ruby-based dispatch system called skycad.
- TicketsCAD appears to be under active development.
- A really old (2009) web-based dispatch system called WebEMS.
- OpenISES, another old project. The website claims there is an attempt to revive it, and the latest tarball is dated August, 2016.
- The Medic Mobile project is meant to help coordinate activities in areas where there is only SMS available.
- A research project about optimizing ambulance assignment. The paper and code are available.
- A simple system for visualizing placement of ambulances.
- traccar has open source apps for android and iOS. It could be used to track ambulance personnel.
- A simple system for visualizing placement of ambulances.
- The Free Open Access to Medical EDucation project brings together medical educational information. There is also a Search Engine and a twitter hashtag, and several other EMS-oriented versions of the hashtag as well.
- Every Paramedic has likely already found ecgpedia, but here it is anyway.
- EMD Cards is a freely available emergency medical dispatch guidebook. Obviously you're gonna want to run that one by medical control first.
- emsprotocols.org is a website that attempts to keep up with the latest and greatest protocols that are available online.
- Vital Sign Simulator can be used to "fake" a lifepack for simulations with a dummy.
- This isn't really open source, but it's the future of EMS data - NEMSIS.
- PhysioNet has recorded physiological data for that deep learning ECG simulator you always wanted to write. PhysioNet also has a list of software you can use for various kinds of data. If you need a program to detect apnea waveforms or QRS waves, you might just find it here.
There are a lot of EHR/EMR systems out there. I'm not going to list them, but here is a really large list.
- epmobile is an open source app aimed at electrophysiology.
- Zephyr Open is a Java library for communicating with "BlueTooth Physiological Sensors".
- The Linux Anasthesia Modular Devices Interface (lamdi) sounds interesting, but the site seems to be down.
- Quantum GIS is a very useful tool for all sorts of geospatial work.
- PostGIS is an add-on module for the most excellent PostgreSQL database server that provides geospatial capabilities for PostgreSQL.
- pgRouting is another PostgreSQL add-on that enables all sorts of routing features. Works with Open Street Maps data and has some extremely useful features for EMS planning.
- Mobile apps for first responders should conform to the Mobile Applications for Public Safety guidelines.
- OpenMedSpel is a medical spelling checker. There is a firefox addon, but this open source project appears to be a server of some kind.