Ecosystem
A shared core, many roles.
Governments
Deploy open, standards-based infrastructure with local ownership and long-term public-sector control.
Hospitals
Adopt practical HMIS and EMR workflows without license lock-in.
Implementation partners
Localize, integrate, train, support, and contribute back to the shared core.
Clinicians
Shape clinical workflows, forms, terminology, safety, and assistive AI behavior.
Developers
Maintain open-source healthcare infrastructure used in real care settings.
Funders
Sustain the public-good infrastructure, release discipline, documentation, and ecosystem.
Journey
From crisis response to foundation-stewarded healthcare commons.
The network story should show evolution without freezing OHC in its pandemic origin. The durable identity is open healthcare infrastructure under neutral stewardship.
Pandemic response roots
CARE began as open-source infrastructure for health system coordination during the COVID-19 response.
Digital Public Good verification
CARE is listed in the Digital Public Goods registry as Care | Open Healthcare Network with MIT license.
Critical care and TeleICU
CARE evolved to support hub-and-spoke critical care workflows and TeleICU integrations.
HMIS and palliative care
The platform now supports broader hospital, community, and home-based care workflows.
Foundation stewardship
OHC Foundation provides the neutral institutional home for governance, quality, security, documentation, and ecosystem enablement.
Commons model
The network is not a vendor channel. It is how the commons stays useful.
A foundation-led ecosystem lets many institutions build and deploy CARE while sharing improvements, avoiding fragmentation, and giving health systems more control over technology and data.
Open-source contribution
Clinical workflow feedback
Implementation playbooks
Reusable standards work