OHT Webinar - The Best of Open Source

Open Health Tools (OHT) will be hosting another of its best of open source in healthcare webinars on Monday, December 5, 10:00 AM EST – 12:00 PM EST. During our two hour webinar we will hold an interactive discussion with Peter Groen and hear exciting updates from the Misys Open Source Software Team (MOSS), as well as Jane Curry and Sarah Knoop. 

The Misys OSS Team has recently received a series of major open sourcre awards. These incude the ‘best use of open source technology’ in healthcare awarded by The Guardian at SMART Healthcare conferece, and most recently at the November EHI LIVE 2011 show in Birmingham (UK). Tim Elwell, leader of the MOSS team, will discuss the IHE project components available on the OHT Forge and how they are assembled to build a health information exchange (HIE). Elwell and his team will also provide a live demonstration of their integrated community portal that builds a dynamic longitudinal health record.

Following the MOSS Team presentation, Peter Groen, Contributing Editor of Open Health News, will provide a guest perspective regarding Medical Informatics 20/20. Groen will discuss the establishment of the Health IT Sharing Program at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in the late 90's, with a snapshot of the state of Open Health IT and sharing over the past decade. Groen will provide an overview of impressive number and diversity of high quality public domain or open source health IT solutions now available. Groen maintains that a new industry is emerging that is creating companies and jobs for the future. He will also touch on the future and opportunities for the Open Health community. A short version of Groen's bio can be read below.

To round out the discussion, Jane Curry and Sarah Knoop will present a “get ready” session that looks at the new OHT approach to education and training.

One can register for the webinar using the link below:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/670535186

For more information, please contact Ginna Yost at Open Health Tools.
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Short Biography of Peter Groen

Peter Groen worked for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for over 30 years.  During his federal career, he occupied a number of senior Information Technology (IT) management positions within VA Headquarters and in the field.  He served as the Director of the Health Information & Technology Sharing (HITS) Program, the Director of the Medical Information Security Service, Director of VHA Telecommunications Services, the Deputy Associate CIO for the Veterans Health Administration, as well as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the VA Medical Centers in Atlanta and Columbia S.C.  Prior to coming to the VA, Mr. Groen served in the U.S. Navy for six years. 

Mr. Groen served five years as an adjunct faculty instructor at the University of South Carolina and was also an adjunct faculty member of the Computer & Information Sciences Department at Shepherd University in West Virginia for many years. He helped found the Shepherd University Research Corporation (SURC) and was its Associate Director for almost 5 years.  While at SURC, he served as the principle investigator for the Medicaid Transformation Grant (MTG) eHealth initiatives for the State of West Virginia.  He was also a member of the Board of Directors for the West Virginia Health Information Network (WVHIN), iConecto.com, and several other organizations.  Finally, Mr. Groen is one of the founders and a senior editor of the Open Health News (OHN) organization - see www.openhealthnews.com. He also maintains a related COSI 'Open' Health IT web site and blog that is part of the COSI Open Technology portal - see www.cositech.net.