The Open Source Hardware Association is assembling a group of stakeholders for a series of workshops around Open Source Health Hardware. If you are interested in participating, please fill out this form [1] and we will be in touch.

OSHWA is thrilled to announce [2] that on August 15th, we were awarded a 2-year National Science Foundation (NSF) POSE grant to create an Open Healthware Ecosystem. The grant for the Open Healthware Ecosystem will be highly specified research looking at the intersections between health hardware and open source hardware principles including certification.

The Open Healthware Ecosystem will bring together the emerging open-source health hardware community, and encourage the shared development of health-related hardware designs through coupling health hardware to the open hardware certification. In the first year, the research team will focus on facilitating agreement on standardization for a health-related open hardware certification, developing on-ramps for the health-related hardware community to learn about open hardware, and building education campaigns and workshops around documentation needed for the new health-specific certification. In the second year, OSHWA will focus on issues around quality assurance and shared testing protocols for the purposes of an open hardware certification, which are critical to the adoption of health hardware outside of emergency use authorization circumstances.

This is the first government grant the Open Source Hardware Association has received.

[1] https://oshwa.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3e1619d377d5a6c361ef3292b&id=ebe88edaf7&e=cd0b37f1ad
[2] https://www.oshwa.org/2024/08/21/oshwa-awarded-nsf-pose-grant/