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The Tolven Institute is developing a healthcare platform with the assistance of developers around the world. The informing vision of the Tolven Institute founders is to develop the most innovative health informatics and service delivery solutions, with global applicability. The Tolven Institute will accomplish this goal by leveraging the affordable nature and quality of open source software development to provide high quality - low cost secure electronic health record solutions for consumers and clinicians alike.

The open standards and open source business model that the Tolven Institute has adopted facilitate rapid collaborations with other open source developers working in the healthcare and life science marketplaces. These collaborations will accelerate the vitally necessary integration of healthcare and life science solutions available in the marketplace.

Membership is the essence of governing the Tolven Institute. Membership is open and free to anyone with the inclination to participate in the governance of the project. Membership privileges include the ability to contribute to the development of modules, components or templates, to download and use the Tolven Institute open source code, and to stay informed on matters of concern to the Tolven Institute.

The Tolven Institute's software is distributed freely to the open source community under GNU LGPL license terms.