Why Open Source software?  In healthcare, patient safety vendors and consultants often place special emphasis on the importance of transparency, collaboration, and sharing best practices; but software tools and methodologies are tightly held intellectual property.

ORQA's culture is that we want to pass on the best practices and new methods in our software at no extra cost and create a community of true collaboration where improvements keep pace with the rapidly evolving standard of care. ORQA earns revenue by providing a service hosting our applications for our customers, providing PSO protection, and building a community of subject matter experts.  We do not charge for licensing the software.  We only ask, under the terms of the Reciprocal Public License (RPL), that any enhancements made by users be shared back with the community.

By utilizing an open source platform, we're able (with permission) to incorporate tools such as Dr. Peter Pronovost's Checklist for preventing central line infections in to our solutions as well as several other leading edge tools, at no extra charge to our customer.