Past Events

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Health Domain Working Group

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When: 
May 31, 2013 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Sponsor: 
Open Geospatial Consortium

An ad hoc Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (http://www.opengeospatial.org) Health Domain Working Group meeting will be held May 31st 2013, from noon until 2:00 p.m. EST. The meeting is being held as a webinar, free and open to all who are interested. Register here. The purpose of the meeting is to review a draft charter for an OGC Health Domain Working Group.

This proposed working group would support collaboration, exchange of best practices, and assimilation of requirements for new open encodings, interfaces, best practices and extensions to spatial standards serving needs in the health care marketplace. Those of us who drafted the charter seek an open spatial standards framework for health mapping, spatial analysis, and hospital planning and operation. See more this recent OGC Blog post. Read More »

CONNECT User Group Meeting At George Washington University

Event Details
Type: 
Open Source Event
Date: 
May 21, 2013 - 9:00am - 4:00pm
Location: 
George Washington University
800 21st St., NW
Washington, DC
United States

The Federal Health Architecture (FHA) will host the first CONNECT User Group Meeting on May 21, 2013! Join FHA and the CONNECT Team for this one-day event that will:

  • Highlight the progress being made to enable successful health information exchange (HIE) between and among federal agencies and other health organizations
  • Introduce new capabilities and features in CONNECT, the dynamic software that enables the secure exchange of health information
  • Address how CONNECT adopters are using it today
  • Discuss how to implement CONNECT
  • Provide a forum for discussion on CONNECT’s architecture and future developments

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27th WorldVistA Community Meeting

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
May 20, 2013 (All day) - May 22, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
George Mason University Fairfax, VA
United States

The 27th WorldVistA Community Meeting will be held at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, from May 20-22, 2013. For more details go to the WorldVistA web site.

 

GT.M Administration And Operations Course May 16-19 At GMU In Fairfax, VA

Event Details
Type: 
Open Source Event
Date: 
May 16, 2013 (All day) - May 19, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
George Mason University Fairfax, VA
United States

GT.M provides a tremendous breadth of functionality designed to to develop and deploy large scale applications. The GT.M Administration & Operations course provides training on setting up, managing, and troubleshooting GT.M environments. It it taught by KS Bhaskar who manages the GT.M for FIS and is a programmer and very knowledgeable about Linux... Read More »

MUMPS For VistA For Programmers Course Taught By Greg Kreis May 15-19, 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Open Source Event
Date: 
May 15, 2013 (All day) - May 19, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Gold Room, Johnson Center, George Mason University Fairfax, VA
United States

This four and a half day course introduces a programmer to the MUMPS language and teaches its effective use in creating real applications in the VA's VistA setting. Greg is the person the VA hires to teach its new programmers. It is rarely if ever possible to sign up for his courses as they are usually closed except to unless a company hires Greg to teach a block of 10-24 people at once. Read More »

DoD/VA iEHR & HIE Summit

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
May 15, 2013 (All day) - May 16, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
The Mary M. Gates Learning Center
701 N. Fairfax
Alexandria, VA
United States

A non-partisan educational and training Summit designed as a "Town Hall"  full spectrum view towards the DoD & VA's efforts at iEHRs and Federal HIE initiatives. The forum is created to encourage a real, pragmatic level of discussion and debate amongst all in attendance... Read More »

eHealth Week 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
May 13, 2013 (All day) - May 15, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Dublin
Ireland

eHealth Week 2013 will be held this year in Dublin, Ireland. The conference brings together two main events: (1) the High Level eHealth Conference co-organized by the European Commission and the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and (2) the World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition (WoHIT) organized by HIMSS Europe. Read More »

Annual WEDI National Conference

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
May 13, 2013 (All day) - May 16, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
LasVegas, NV
United States

The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is the leading authority on the use of Health IT to improve healthcare information exchange (HIE). Members of the Health IT Industry are invited  to attend WEDI’s 2013 Annual National Conference to be held May 13-16, 2013, at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, NV.

A coalition comprised of a cross-section of the healthcare industry, WEDI works to enhance the quality of care, improve efficiency and to reduce costs of the U.S. healthcare system. In its 22nd year, the WEDI Annual National Conference is expected to attract more than 500 health information management professionals to learn the latest in the management of health information and technologies. Come share your expertise, successes, and ideas with your peers! Read More »

Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) - 2013

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Type: 
Conference
Date: 
April 29, 2013 (All day) - April 30, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
San Francisco, CA
United States

Even as Open Source has gone mainstream, its influence on cloud computing, mobile technology, and Big Data is still in its infancy.  Businesses are increasingly data-driven, as the Internet, cloud strategies, social media and mobile technologies have made it possible and imperative to collect massive quantities of data on customers, competitors, and more.  Making sense of all that dat Read More »

Open Source Hardware Documentation Jam (New York City, NY)

Event Details
Type: 
Open Source Event
Date: 
April 26, 2013 - 6:00pm - April 28, 2013 - 8:00pm
Location: 
To be determined New York City, NY
United States

Join us on this 3-day co-design jam to improve Open Source Hardware documentation practices and facilitate collaborative innovation. Read More »

Millennial Medicine: Knowledge Design For An Age Of Digital Disruption - April 26, 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Open Access Event
Date: 
April 26, 2013 - 8:00am - 6:00pm
Location: 
Rice University
United States

On Friday, April 26, Medical Futures Lab will host its inaugural "multidisciplinary-critical-thinking-through-creative-design" symposium, "Millennial Medicine: Knowledge Design for an Age of Digital Disruption." Read More »

Open Source, Open Standards 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
April 18, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
America Square Conference Centre London
United Kingdom

Open Source, Open Standards 2013 is the leading summit exploring how to take full advantage of open technology solutions across the public sector, from delivering innovative and open IT services to driving savings.

2013 Future of Open Source Survey Results

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When: 
April 17, 2013 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Sponsor: 
Black Duck & North Bridge Venture Partners

The annual Future of Open Source Survey provides a report on the state of the open source industry and analysis of future trends. Now in its seventh year, this annual survey was supported by over 25 open source software industry leaders and collaborating organizations, and compiles results from hundreds of respondents from the open source community.

 

TEDMed 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Open Source Event
Date: 
April 16, 2013 (All day) - April 19, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Washington, DC
United States

TEDMED 2013 will gather 1,500 adventurous thinkers and doers, from 300 medical and nonmedical disciplines, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. Read More »

GlobusWorld 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
April 16, 2013 (All day) - April 18, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Argonne National Laboratory Lemont (Chicago), IL 60439
United States

GlobusWORLD 2013 will be held April 16-18, 2013 at Argonne National Laboratory. The GlobusWORLD conference series is the leading annual event for Globus users, developers and resource providers. Read More »

IHE World Summit

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
April 16, 2013 (All day) - April 18, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Haliç Congress Center Istanbul
Turkey

The IHE International World Summit is intended for everybody who is interested in IHE [Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise] and interoperability in Health IT.

This year the IHE International World Summit will be held in parallel to the IHE Europe Connectathon, which main purpose is testing the interoperability and connectivity of Health IT systems. Participants in the IHE International World Summit also have the opportunity to visit the IHE Europe Connectathon. Read More »

POSSCON 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
March 27, 2013 (All day) - March 28, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Columbia, SC
United States

The Palmetto Open Source Software Conference (POSSCON) 2013, will once again be held in beautiful Columbia, South Carolina. has consistently brought together a unique mix of technologists, IT leaders, business leaders, open source advocates, and educators. Read More »

EclipseCon 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
March 25, 2013 (All day) - March 28, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center Boston, MA
United States

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce that EclipseCon North America 2013 will be held March 25-28, 2013 in Boston, MA. The conference will be located at the Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center. Registration is now open. The session schedule is also available online. Read More »

Open Source Think Tank 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Open Source Event
Date: 
March 20, 2013 (All day) - March 22, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Calistoga, CA
United States

The Open Source Think Tank (OSTT) is the industry's only "by-invitation" event for senior executives to gather and discuss the present and future of open source in a collaborative and collegial manner. The event's unique format, using real world case studies and brainstorming sessions, in conjunction with structured social activities, has made OSTT the industry's must-attend affair. Read More »

Learning Health System-Essential Standards To Enable Learning (ESTEL)

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When: 
March 14, 2013 - 11:00am - 12:30pm

CDISC and the leadership of the Learning Health Community would like to invite you to attend the upcoming webinar:  Learning Health System-Essential Standards to Enable Learning (ESTEL). Read More »