"Misys is putting its money where its mouth is by dedicating key worldwide resources to contribute code and work on this project. We are so confident of its success that we have committed to demonstrating the project at the 2009 February Connectathon to be held in Chicago. After we complete this project, we hope to encourage the community to begin the creation of IHE Registries and Repositories and other server-based components that the industry needs."

In Aug. 2008 the California HealthCare Foundation, an independent healthcare philanthropy group, (CHCF) gave OHT a donation from of key software components from a $10 million health information exchange project. CHCF provided the software's code to OHT to promote its open source platform and to accelerate the establishment of regional health information organizations. The intent is to create sophisticated patient matching algorithms that will work with the new OHT project to create an open source, enterprise master person index.

Jonah Frohlich, CHCF senior program officer commented on the foundation's dedicated support of this project by stating: "CHCF is dedicated to the promotion of open source development and is heartened that our code contributions will be able to improve the delivery of healthcare worldwide."

"Open source is all about collaboration and is increasingly being recognized as the currency in the new economy. This project is all about meeting an industry need and promoting standards that are needed to solve complex interoperability problems in healthcare. We are pleased that the community has chosen OHT to assist in this collaboration," said Open Health Tools CEO Skip McGaughey.