opal 0.5.3.post

A web framework for building highly usable healthcare applications.

OPAL
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[Project Website](http://opal.openhealthcare.org.uk)

OPAL is designed to make writing transactional digital services for a clnical environment easy.

It builds on established Open Source technologies with a track record of helping developers
build easy to maintain, robust applications.

Most notably, it makes use of [Django](https://djangoproject.com/) [Angular JS](https://angularjs.org/)
and [Bootstrap](http://getbootstrap.com/).

From there, OPAL provides you with a common batteries-included architecture for writing healthcare
applications, and a composable modular framework that takes advantage of generic, re-usable components.

OPAL is an entirely Open ([Source](https://github.com/openhealthcare/opal) &
[Governance](https://github.com/openhealthcare/opal)issues) as are the wide library of plugins.

OPAL was created by [Open Health Care UK](http://openhealthcare.org.uk), because it makes Healthcare IT Less Bad.

We'd love you to get involved by using what we make, reporting bugs/suggesting improvements, and fixing bugs/making improvements. Please refer to the CONTRIBUTING file.

## More comprehensive documentation

The documentation is a work in progress.

We'd love any feedback or contributions to it !

Latest version is at [http://opal.openhealthcare.org.uk/docs/](http://opal.openhealthcare.org.uk/docs/)

Open governance
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Roadmap: https://github.com/openhealthcare/opal/wiki/Roadmap

Discussion List: https://groups.google.com/forum/?ohc-dev#!forum/ohc-opal

Access: availability of the latest source code, developer
support mechanisms, public roadmap, and transparency of
decision-making

Development: the ability of developers to influence the content
and direction of the project

Derivatives: the ability for developers to create and distribute
derivatives of the source code in the form of spin-off projects,
handsets or applications.

Community: a community structure that does not discriminate
between developers

(from http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2011/07/the-open-governance-index-measuring-openness-from-android-to-webkit/)

Open source
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GNU Affero GPLv3

Communications
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[e-mail]

http://www.openhealthcare.org.uk

https://twitter.com/ohcuk

https://groups.google.com/forum/?ohc-dev#!forum/ohc-opal

channel #ohc_dev on freenode