Embracing the Power of Open Source:

Through use of our Axiomedix Expert Network, we leverage code contributors directly when working with our customers to customize their deployments. These new features can then be incorporated into the next official releases of the open source platforms. These expert engineers also act as support agents on our support portal (support.axiomedix.com).

Supporting the Community:

We pay a “royalty” on our Axiomedix Distributions to:
• The open source foundations.
• The open source developers who work with us to build and support these distributions.

Staying Open Minded:

We don’t presume to have all the answers ourselves. We will invest in the platforms that our network and customers tell us are important, too. This adds valuable flexibility to our menu of solutions, and means we work with proprietary software in addition to open source.

Forward Thinking:

We are interested in the possibility of expanding to new open source verticals as we go: finance, pharmaceutical research & development, machine learning, and more. These separate brands will operate in parallel using our existing infrastructure, including leveraging (and expanding) the Axiomedix Expert Network.

Federated Networks:

Institutions that map their local coding systems to a common ontology can use the SHRINE software in tandem with i2b2 to build federated data networks, which protect patient privacy by keeping the data within each hospital’s local database. The largest SHRINE networks currently contain data on more than 100 million patients, enabling large population-wide studies.

It is important to note that these different architectures can be combined, so that an institution can use the same i2b2 core database for more than one use case. This flexibility is what makes i2b2 unique and is a main reason why the platform has been adopted by more than 300 institutions worldwide.