%0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2008 %T Editorial: Health and Life Sciences (November 2008) %A Dru Lavigne %A Brian Barry %A Peter Tanner %X The length of Wikipedia's list of open source healthcare software may come as a surprise to many readers. This issue of the OSBR provides an excellent introduction to the complexities and interoperability issues associated with healthcare software and the role open source can play in helping to resolve these issues. This month's authors also provide insight into an open source projects that follows open standards, lessons learned from providing a reference implementation, the benefits of a healthcare ecosystem, and the value of open source projects working closely with standards organizations. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 11/2008 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/202 %N November 2008 %9 Editorial %1 Talent First Network Dru Lavigne is a technical writer and IT consultant who has been active with open source communities since the mid-1990s. She writes regularly for O'Reilly and DNSStuff.com and is the author of the books BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics. %2 Open Health Tools Brian Barry is CEO of Bedarra Research Labs and CTO of Open Health Tools. From 1991-2002 he served variously as Chief Scientist, CEO, President and CTO at Object Technology International, Inc. Under his leadership, OTI developed the Eclipse Platform and the IBM VisualAge family of products. Dr. Barry has published a number of research papers and articles on a wide variety of technical subjects. He has served on the Program Committees for software conferences such as OOPSLA, ECOOP, AOSD and Agile Development, was a co-author of the ANSI Smalltalk standard, and actively participates on research review boards and committees. %3 Open Health Tools Peter Tanner divides his time between being a Retiree-on-Call at IBM Canada, and handling the intellectual property policies and strategies for Open Health Tools. As Director of Business Development at Object Technology International, Mr. Tanner was directly involved with the legal and business issues during the founding of Eclipse.