Cloud computing, the prevasive Internet and Thin Clients/Netbooks/Smart Phones have made Health Care Hardware affordable for even the poorest of our 6 billion fellow humans who are at the BOP. Free Open Source, software (FOSS), like US Veterans Administrations EHR - VistA, with 30 years of operations, in over 1300 facilities, from small clinics to 1000 bed specialty hospitals, in a realtime, fully networked paperless system provides globally acclaimed quality and cost effective health care to over 25 million veterans at over 1300 facilities spread over the US is available. A strategy for a fifth of the global population (India) to leverage its potential to serve the globe, by tele-medicine, EHR, Medical tourism and use of ancient systems of medicine, Yoga, Ayurveda etc.

1. Health Care Powered by Open Source Software: An Out of the box approach Vipen Mahajan Principal Consultant Leo Systems Chicago, Boston, Munich, New Delhi