Comparative Study of Different Open-Source Hospital Information Systems in Order to Develop an Application for the Healthcare Institution’s Needs in Morocco

The information system (IS) was becoming an indispensable management tool in various fields of human activity. In the health sector, it has an important role in improving patient management and quality of healthcare services, in optimizing resources and in effectiveness of biomedical research. The hospital information system (HIS) began to emerge in recent decades in many developing countries. Our study aims at first for examining many different open source applications and, then, selecting the most appropriate applications to use and adapt for healthcare structures in countries where the public management allocated budgets, in the different healthcare structures, does not allow the purchase of a commercial solution and a necessary after-sales services. A bibliographical study does not allow us to discover related works. From were, the great interest of our comparative study.