Palamida Joins Oregon State University's Open Healthcare Initiative Project

Palamida™, the leader in software intellectual property management solutions and audit services, today announced that it has joined the Open Health Information Project (OHIP), a global collaboration between public and private institutions to develop open source software solutions for the health information community. Lead by Oregon State University's Open Source Lab (OSL), OHIP works to enable the successful adoption and use of open source software methodologies in the public sector. Palamida will contribute both technology and expertise in the area of IP management and risk mitigation by performing in-depth code audits for OHIP — a critical necessity for the safe incorporation of third party code into applications and solutions supporting personal healthcare data.

"We are excited to work alongside OSU on this very important project. Palamida is deeply committed to enabling the safe and confident use of open source in the development of healthcare software solutions and we look forward to supporting the creation of a collaborative infrastructure for the secure and timely delivery of patient information," said Palamida CEO, Mark Tolliver.

Challenges posed by the exchange of health information among geographically dispersed providers such as hospitals, doctors, and pharmacies, creates a pressing need for efficient information technology systems capable of providing unilateral support. Early OHIP pilot projects will aggregate major open source code sets (software) and demonstrate the value of the open source approach in resolving existing problems in the health information technology field.

By comparing code against the industry's largest and most comprehensive compliance library, Palamida will ensure the seamless contribution of outside code in adherence with internal compliance, risk and use policies — enabling organizations to confidently add their code into the OHIP code base.

The Mayo Clinic Division of Biomedical Informatics based on Lexical Grid (LexGrid) technologies will make major contributions of health information code to OHIP, providing support for a distributed network of lexical resources such as terminologies and ontologies via standards-based tools, storage formats, and access/update mechanisms. This in essence provides a "medical terminology search engine" for the project.

Deborah Bryant, Public Sector Communities Manager at OSL noted, "Open source provides the foundation for successful collaboration between disparate organizations. In working toward developing an interoperable and cost-effective health information infrastructure, it also provides the framework in which leading organizations can streamline the growing complexity of health information technologies."

OHIP's key industry technology contributors include:

• CollabNet — Responsible for managing the collaborative open source development process over the entire code base lifecycle including: contribution, access, revision control, bug management and release distribution.
• Palamida — Responsible for auditing the code base to assure that intellectual property rights align with internal use and risk policies.
• Oregon State University Open Source Lab — Responsible for providing the aggregation, hosting and management of the code repository, including the CollabNet and Palamida servers, and overall data center management.
• Innoopract — Responsible for contributing both expertise and technology in relation to the bundling and integration of software components. They will also provide leadership in the areas of quality assurance, automation in assembly and deployment management to assist in building solutions using a wide range of software from different manufacturers.

About the Company
Palamida enables organizations to manage the growing complexity of multi-source development environments by answering the question, "What's in your code?" Through detailed analysis of the code base customers gain insight into their code inventory — a critical component of quality control, risk mitigation, and vulnerability assessment.

Palamida was founded in 2003, offering market leading solutions and services that allow organizations to safely and confidently leverage the power of open source in internal and external software development. Palamida's customers include Avaya, Cisco Systems, EMC, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, among others. Read Palamida's blog at www.palamida.com/blog or for more information visit www.palamida.com.