Connect Is Only One Goal of New Group

Begun in 2009, and supported by various federal government agencies working collaboratively as the Federal Health Architecture Program, “Connect” is the name of the open source software that is the fruit of that labor.

The launch of the Alembic Foundation was announced Monday. Its purpose is to “contribute to the public commons through open processes that create open technologies for transformation," said David Riley, the foundation's president and CEO, in a news release.

Keeping Connect alive won't be the not-for-profit's only goal, Riley said. “The foundation will be tackling projects that will benefit from using open technologies to solve real-life challenges,” he said. But, “a first project will be to expand the work of Connect to create a truly open community that uses open source technology for health information exchange."