Pretty good writeup on Newsforge about the OpenEMed project with comments by project leader David Forslund: ‘…”[OpenEmed’s] main goal is to detect bioterrorism,” Forslund says, “but we also want to make it able to react to natural disease outbreaks…By making it open source and free, we hope we can get it deployed to many sites, because the broader the base, the more sensitivity we have to a problem…’