The FreeB project is the only known Free and Open Source medical billing package in existence. Its importance to FOSS in medicine cannot be over-stated. Project leader Fred Trotter announces: ‘FreeB was released today. FreeB is the only Free and Open Source Medical Billing Project that is designed to integrate with any Practice or Hospital Management System.’ FreeB is a sub-project of the FreeMED project.

‘The current version supports HCFA printing and X12 837p (HIPPA version).

More signifigant than the release of the code is the release of the API. While the code will be changing, the API is intended to remain stable, allowing for projects to begin supporting the API.