GNU Health receives award from Free Software Foundation

Free Software Foundation (FSF) president Richard M. Stallman announced the winners of the FSF's annual free software awards at a ceremony on March 25th, held during the LibrePlanet 2012 conference at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

"The Award for Projects of Social Benefit is presented to the project or team responsible for applying free software, or the ideas of the free software movement, in a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society in other aspects of life. This award stresses the use of free software in the service of humanity."

"This year, the award went to GNU Health, a free software project that works with health professionals around the world to improve the lives of the underprivileged. GNU Health has been adopted as the Health and Hospital Information System of choice by the United Nations University. Luis Falcon, the president of GNU Solidario, the organization behind GNU Health, was present to accept the award on behalf of the project."

GNU Health is one of the growing number of high quality open source health IT solutions now available to users around the world. For more information about some of the best of these 'Open Health' resources, see the resource section in the Open Health News (OHN) web site.