Past Events

The World Congress 8th Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress (WHIT v.8.0)

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
November 7, 2012 (All day) - November 9, 2012 (All day)
Location: 
The Ritz-Carlton
Pentagon City
Arlington, VA 22202
United States

The 8th annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology congress (WHIT) will take place at the Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City, in Arlington, VA, November 7-9. The event features intense educational content, offering workshops, market insights, and summits in addition to keynote addresses and panel discussions led by industry leaders from multiple sectors across the healthcare system.

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Health 2.0 Europe Annual Conference in Berlin

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
November 6, 2012 - 8:00am - November 7, 2012 - 5:00pm
Location: 
Berlin
Germany

Health 2.0 today announced the Call for Speakers for its Health 2.0 Europe 2012 Annual Conference, which will be held Nov. 6-7 in Berlin, Germany. The two-day event will set the stage for the next wave of technology innovation. It is an opportunity for entrepreneurs and developers to introduce and receive immediate feedback from industry decision-makers and venture capitalists on technology and services that improve health care and reduce costs. Over 400 E E health care leaders and stakeholders including national and regional health authorities, financiers, insurers, pharmaceutical companies, and policy makers are expected to attend the Berlin conference... Read More »

Open Access Africa 2012

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
November 4, 2012 (All day) - November 5, 2012 (All day)
Location: 
University of Cape Town Cape Town
South Africa

Hosted by BioMed Central, Open Access Africa 2012, now in its third year, will bring together researchers, librarians, university administrators, funders and other key decision-makers to discuss the benefits of open access publishing in an African context. Read More »

AMIA 2012 Annual Symposium

Event Details
Type: 
Open Access Event
Date: 
November 3, 2012 (All day) - November 7, 2012 (All day)
Location: 
Chicago, IL
United States

The AMIA Annual Symposium is the world’s premier scientific meeting for biomedical and health informatics, which is the field devoted to the science of using information to improve individual health, health care, public health, and biomedical research. The meeting, however, features more than scientific presentations. Read More »

Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI) 2012

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 22, 2012 (All day) - October 25, 2012 (All day)
Location: 
Crowne Plaza Beijing Sun Palace Beijing
China

Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI) is a regional member of International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). At present, APAMI has 18 country and regional members. The APAMI conference is held every 3 years. The 7th APAMI Conference will be held on 22-25 Oct, 2012 at Beijing. Read More »

OSEHRA 2012 Open Source Summit

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 17, 2012 - 8:00am - October 18, 2012 - 6:00pm
Location: 
Gaylord National Washington, DC
United States

The Open Source Electronic Health Records Agent (OSEHRA) will be hosting its First Annual Open Source EHR Summit & Workshop October 17 and 18, 2012, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. OSEHRA is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating an open source ecosystem around the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) world-class EHR, VistA. Since its creation a year ago by the VA, the organization has grown rapidly and now has more than 1,000 members. Members include a large number of private companies that are engaged in implementing VistA private sector hospitals and clinics, as well as in the large number of foreign countries that are adopting VistA. These solution providers are also developing a whole range of  enhancements to the VistA core.

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5TH Annual Middle East Healthcare Expansion Summit

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 10, 2012 - 8:00am - October 11, 2012 - 5:00pm
Location: 
Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates

The Healthcare - IT industry has always been growing and with the advent of mobile health, telecom leaders have also joined the league. In the Middle East, the healthcare segment is a primary focus area for the IT as well as telecom industry with opportunities in areas such as diagnostics applications, interactive mobile applications, self care, hospital information systems and integration of IT platforms with mobile health apps.

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CONNECT Review & Planning Webinar

Details
When: 
October 9, 2012 - 10:00am - 12:00pm
Sponsor: 
HHS / ONC

The CONNECT Team welcomes active participation by others in the CONNECT community during this bi-weekly meeting to discuss the exciting new features being built into CONNECT 4.0. You can participate by reviewing design approaches, contributing code, building test cases, and performing pre-release testing and validation – or by simply following the community’s progress on Release 4.0.

OpenMRS 2012 Implementers Meeting

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 9, 2012 (All day) - October 12, 2012 (All day)
Location: 
Silang
Philippines

The annual OpenMRS Implementers Meeting began in 2006 as a way to bring members of the community together during a dedicated amount of time to collaborate, share implementation experiences, and find ways to improve OpenMRS.

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DoD/VA iEHR & HIE Summit

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 3, 2012 - 8:00am - October 4, 2012 - 5:00pm
Location: 
The Carnegie Institution for Science
1530 P Street, NW
Washington, D.C.
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. We bring together leaders from across the Armed Services & Government Agencies and the Industry and Academic leaders that can help them forge many of the HIT solutions necessary to achieve their respective “next –steps”. Actionable take aways for today, tomorrow, and the future will drive the discussions. Read More »

Consumer Genetics Conference 2012

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 3, 2012 (All day) - October 5, 2012 (All day)
Location: 
Boston, MA
United States

The Consumer Genetics Conference (CGC) covers the key issues facing clinical genetics, personalized medicine, molecular diagnostics, and consumer-targeted DNA applications. It provides a unique outlet where all voices can be heard: pro & con, physician & consumer, research & clinical, academic & corporate, financial & regulatory. Read More »

Open Hardware Summit

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
September 27, 2012 (All day)
Location: 
Eyebeam Art & Technology Center New York City, NY
United States

The Open Hardware Summit is the world’s first comprehensive conference on open hardware, a venue to discuss and draw attention to the rapidly growing open source hardware movement. Speakers include world renowned leaders from industry, academia, and the DIY community. Read More »

Open Source Hardware For Renewable Energy + Manufacturing In Motion + Wikipedia Illustrated

Event Details
Type: 
Open Source Event
Date: 
September 20, 2012 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: 
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Hämeentie 135 C Helsinki MAKE auditorium
Helsinki
Finland

Open Source Hardware for Renewable Energy + Manufacturing in Motion + Wikipedia Illustrated.... Read More »

OSCAR Quebec Users Group Meeting

Event Details
Type: 
Open Education Event
Date: 
September 20, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: 
Montreal, QC
Canada

OSCAR Quebec User Group is holding its first meeting!

  • WHEN:  Thursday September 20, 2012 from 12-1pm
  • WHERE: To be held in Montreal, Quebec
  • INFORMATION: Please contact Earl Wertheimer if you are interested - [email protected]



 

Open Development And Aid Flows: How To Use Aid Data

Event Details
Type: 
Open Source Event
Date: 
September 19, 2012 - 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Location: 
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Hämeentie 135 C 8th floor auditorium (DREAM)
Helsinki
Finland

Every year over $130bn of aid flows in official assistance from donors to support development projects across the globe. Add in funding from charities and Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs), and other sources, and you can see that international aid involves staggering sums of money, and supports thousands upon thousands of projects across the globe. Through the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) an increasing amount of open data on these aid flows is becoming available online in structured ways.

This hands-on session will explore open aid data from all angles. Following a series if lightening talks to introduce the aid landscape and IATI, we will break-off into groups led by experts to focus on...

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Open Source Technologies For Clinical Trials

Details
When: 
September 19, 2012 - 1:00pm

This webinar will demonstrate how open source technologies present an innovative solution to the current challenging climate in the clinical trial industry, and will include a short demonstration of an open source system for Electronic Data Capture (EDC) in clinical trials.

VistA Implementation at JPNATC in India

Details
When: 
September 18, 2012 - 10:00am - 11:00am

Webinar on the Implementation of VistA at Jai Prakash Narain Apex Trauma Centre (JPNATC), All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) & Economical integration of various modules for a developing country.

VISTA Expo 2012

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
September 11, 2012 - 8:00am - September 14, 2012 - 5:00pm
Location: 
Seattle, WA
United States

VISTA Expo and Symposium is an annual conference for VISTA vendors, customers, developers, instructors, and students. Just like last year, conference lodgings and events are all under one roof, but this year, that roof is conveniently close to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Join us for four days of insightful, thought-provoking discussion about VISTA and its future.

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International Conference on Open Source Systems 2012

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
September 10, 2012 (All day) - September 13, 2012 (All day)
Location: 
Hammamet
Tunisia

The 8th International Conference on Open Source Systems will be held in Hammamet, Tunisia, on September 10-13, 2012. This will be the first such conference to be held in Africa. Read More »

RFID in Health Care 2012

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
September 6, 2012 - 9:00am - 5:50pm
Location: 
Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers MA
United States

RFID Journal announced today that registration is now open for RFID in Health Care 2012, a conference focused on how health-care providers employ radio frequency identification technologies to lower costs and improve patient outcomes. The event will be held on Sept. 6, 2012, at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers, located in Massachusetts.

This year's event will feature leading hospital executives explaining how they use RFID to improve asset-utilization rates, reduce expenses and improve patient outcomes, and will provide a unique learning experience for health-care executives. In addition, early adopters will share the results of real-world deployments, and answer questions regarding the benefits they have achieved from employing RFID.

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