Past Events

Open Health Tools will be holding its Technical Exchange and Board Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, following the HIMSS 2012 conference. The meetings will take place February 23-24, 2012 (Thursday and Friday) at the Luxor in Las Vegas, NV, USA. Details of the meetings below.

In additon Open Health Tools will have a booth at the HIMSS2012 Interoperability Showcase in Las Vegas courtesy of Georgia Tech. The HIMSS2012 Showcase will be open from Tuesday, February 21 through Thursday, February 23, 2012 – overlapping with OHT's Technical Exchange meeting on February 23 and ending before the Board meeting on Friday, February 24.  

OHT’s primary goal for having a HIMSS booth is to increase awareness of those OHT projects that foster interoperability and demonstrate innovation toward flexible, future-state health IT solutions.  We can, simultaneously, increase interest and membership in OHT by demonstrating some of our charter projects.

OHT and Georgia Tech are pursuing a public-private initiative to accelerate health IT innovation and generate the robust, competitive, responsive marketplace necessary to support our future learning health system.  A trusted, neutral network of organizations and companies will enable virtual, collaborative, “innovation sandboxes” to be created quickly and inexpensively by providing rapid access to a wide range of commercial and open source health IT products and tools. Read More »

Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) is organizing the 2nd International conference on open source for computer-aided Translational medicine, at Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India. This conference will be useful for scientific community working in the field of drug discovery particularly on Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This conference will take place February 22nd to 25th. Following are major objectives of this conference

• Promoting open source in therapeutics.
• Role of computer in translational research.
• Integration of in silico & wet-lab experiments.
• Bring wide range of experts (in silico to clinical) on single platform.
• Discuss current status of therapeutics in tuberculosis.
• CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh

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popHealth, one of the most successful open source apps in the healthcare IT field will be featured in a series of presentations at the HIMSS conference in Las Vegas. 

popHealth is an open source software tool that facilitates the automated reporting of health quality measures. It is integrated with a healthcare provider's electronic health record (EHR) system to produce summary quality measures on the provider's patient population. Interestingly enough, popHealth can also be used as a stand-alone open source EHR and has been certified under the meaningful use criteria.

Open Health News recent published an article on the popHealth story that reviews the background to the project and its successes. The presentations at the HIMSS conference present a golden opportunity to learn about tool in depth. There are presentations for providers, vendors, as well as hands on demos at the HIMSS Interoperabilty Showcase. Key members of the popHealth team will be present during the sessions.

It is expected that the popHealth team will provide details of the major updates coming to popHealth. At present supports the electronic specifications for the 44 Stage 1 clinical quality measures. The project plans to encode Stage 2 clinical quality measure specifications in the next popHealth release in 2012.  Additional plans for popHealth will be discuss by the team.

Here is the schedule for the popHealth presentations at HIMSS...

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The 2012 Annual Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference & Exhibition, Monday-Friday, Feb. 20-24, 2012, at the Venetian-Palazzo-Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

The Free and Open Source software Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM) will be held in Brussels on February 4-5, 2012. It is one of the largest European conferences on this type of software. It is a two day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Read More »

The 2012 Military Health System (MHS) Conference will be held from Jan. 30 to Feb. 2, 2012 at the Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center at National Harbor, Md. The focus of the conference will be on sharing knowledge and achieving breakthrough performance in healthcare delivery, research, education and training. Each day will feature a specific educational theme with all plenary and breakout sessions aligned to furthering the goals of the Quadruple Aim and the associated Strategic Initiatives.

The MHS Conferences promote professionalism throughout the organization, enhance partnerships within and outside the federal sector, and concentrate on ways to best serve the preventive and health-care needs of its diverse beneficiary population. Four-thousand military and civilian medical personnel from the MHS are expected to attend. The event will include an expanded exhibit hall featuring agency and commercial exhibitors whose products and programs are aligned with the MHS mission.

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The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Systems (CMS) Innovation is co-hosting the first ever Care Innovations Summit, an HCI-DC event, on January 26, 2012, in Washington, DC in collaboration with the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) at HHS, the West Wireless Health Institute, and DoD Health Affairs to facilitate dialogue and drive action towards:  "Better care and better health Read More »

The Arab Health Exhibition & Congress is the largest event of its kind in the Middle East. Now in its 37th year, Arab Health provides an unrivalled platform for the world’s leading manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors to meet the medical and scientific community from the Middle East and beyond. Read More »