Past Events
Patient Portals and Blue Button: Hear from the Experts
Patients are now demanding online access to their medical information. Hospitals are responding by implementing patient portals. And the Department of Veterans Affairs has answered this request from veterans with Blue Button.
Join us on January 17th to hear four experts discuss how Blue Button and patient portals improve the quality of healthcare, increase patient loyalty and help meet related Meaningful Use objectives.
This event is a must for CIOs, IT Managers, Administrators, CNOs, Marketing and anyone responsible for Meaningful Use and patient relations. In just one hour, including time for Q&A, you can:
• Find out how patient portals with Blue Button boost patient loyalty and satisfaction
• Learn how Blue Button helps you meet patients' expectations
• Discover how patient portals and Blue Button support Meaningful Use objectives
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24th VistA Community Meeting
The VistA community will be gathering next week in Sacramento, CA for the 24th VistA Community Meeting (VCM). The meeting, January 13-15, will take place in the campus of the University of California Davis. This meeting is shaping up as one of the greatest VistA community meetings. It has a very impressive line up of speakers.
Leading the list is the US Department of Veterans Affairs's (VA) visionary CIO, Roger Baker who is leading the transformation of the VA's VistA development strategy to a collaborative, open source strategy. In addition several key people from the VA will also be addressing the meeting including Michael O'Neill, Senior Advisor to the VA's Innovation Initiative (VAi2) and Julie Harvey, Director of the VA's Office of Information Technology Product Development and Assessment.
Dr. Seung Ki Mun, the chairman of OSEHRA, the organization created by the VA to manage the VistA code development organization, will also be addressing the meeting. This will be a great opportunity for VistA community members to meet Dr. Mun. For the past decade Dr. Mun has played a major role in promoting the use of open source software and tools in radiology and imaging as well as for clinical trials.
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Open Source World Conference 2012
The city of Granada will host the Open Source World Conference 2012, the main Spanish conference on this type of software and one of the largest such conferences in Europe.
The organisers describe it as the meeting point for anyone interested in this technology model, including users, social agents, developers, business leaders, investors and public sector managers.
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Annual National Law Students Workshop on Rethinking Intellectual Property Rights
Indian Patent Law: The Social Overtones
Objectives of the Annual workshop
The pedagogical practice existing among the Law Schools of India predominantly approaches IP from a commercial angle. It often ignores to take into account the social implications of IP as the main role of IP law is to maintain a correct balance between protection of IP and information dissemination. The western approach of looking at IP as a catalyst for development is being followed by our law schools without being interrogated. Our experience with the western approach signifies that it stifles innovation and research. The question, therefore, is should India imitate the western practices, both statutory and judicial, or whether we should evolve our own jurisprudence of IP reflecting national developmental perspectives.
Invited Talks
There will be at least three invited talks on the various sub themes of the workshop. This is organized between 12.00 to 3.30 pm every day:
- Protecting Innovation: The Social Realities
- Access to Medicine: The Social Problems
- Open Source Drug Discovery – The Challenges
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V International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies
The Fifth International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies (IWEEE) is taking place in Granada, Spain on January 11, 2012. This is a biannual meeting held in Europe and in Latin America. IWEEE promotes the use of open source software in providing healthcare in developing countries and emerging economies.
This year's conference has been organized by GNUSolidario, the European Federation for Medical Informatics Libre/Free Open Source Working Group (EFMI LIFOSS WG), and the International Medical Informatics Association's Open Sourcre Working Group (IMIA OSWG).
The theme for this year's conference is "Commitment". It is time for individuals, public administrations and governments to adopt open source software in public health, so we can all have access to good quality health care.
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popHealth open source Clinical Quality Measure project
The popHealth open source Clinical Quality Measure project will be hosting a webinar next Monday, December 19th at 1:00 p.m. EST Several new features actively under development will be presented to the open source popHealth community:
- Practice-level reporting with multiple providers
- Report stratification on race/ethnicity/spoken language/gender
- Individual patient view, with Meaningful Use clinical gap analysis from continuity of care data
- Clinician-gated, manual override support for exclusion logic
As part of this webinar, the popHealth project will be opening a discussion for participants, both the clinician and EHR vendors' perspectives, to help guide ongoing design and priority of these new features.
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David Kibbe and Barry Hieb at Pilots and Collaborations Webinar
This week on our free Pilots and Collaborations Webinar (Friday, Dec. 16, 11AM EST, 8AM PST), David Kibbe will be giving an update on DirectTRUST.org and Barry Hieb will be giving an update on Voluntary Universal Healthcare Identifiers (VUHID). Read More »
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CONNECT Code-A-Thon at UC Berkeley
The CONNECT Project is traveling to the West Coast for the next Code-A-Thon! UC Berkeley’s School of Information has graciously offered to host the community for a Code-A-Thon on December 15-16, 2011.
In addition to holding technical/coding sessions, this CONNECT Code-A-Thon will include a couple of new items:
- A business track for people new to CONNECT that need to learn more about what the open source software project is and how it can benefit them
- Working with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, the CONNECT team will construct innovation challenges for the event, providing attendees with the opportunity to address and tackle issues directly relevant to nationwide health IT interoperability
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OSEHRA Development Tools Teleconference
The next web conference for the OSEHRA development tools group is scheduled for Wednesday, December 14, 2011 from 3:00pm to 4:00pm EST.
For this call we will focus on illustrating the practical use of the Git repository, Gerrit code review, testing Dashboard and the Auto-Generated documentation...
During the web conference we will demonstrate the use of the OSEHRA development tools, and we will run hands-on exercises to ensure that attendees, using the Virtual Machines, get a first-hand exposure to the use of these development tools. By the end of the session, attendees will...
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Postponed: Use Your EHR to Drive Quality Improvements
Just in: In order to appropriately address certain technical issues, Medsphere is postponing the 12/14 Webinar featuring the Lutheran Medical Center Video Case Study. In the next several days we will send out another invite for the same event in January. We look forward to having you join us.
Join executives from Brooklyn's Lutheran Medical Center to hear how they used their EHR project as a change agent for system-wide quality improvements. Wendy Goldstein, president & CEO, shares a video case study from a recent executive conference: Meaningful Use NOW. Steve Art, Lutheran's CIO and senior VP, will be on hand to address “lessons learned” from their implementation of OpenVista®, derived from the most widely used EHR in the world.
Attendees will take away what works to:
- Build consensus among clinical, operational and financial departments
- Customize your EHR to redesigned processes
- Achieve Meaningful Use affordably in 2012
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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.
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mHealth Summit
The 3rd annual mHealth Summit brings together leaders in government, private sector, industry, academia, and not-for-profit organizations from across the mHealth ecosystem to advance collaboration in the use of wireless technology to improve health outcomes in the United States and abroad.
The 2011 mHealth Summit will bring into focus the business, clinical research, and policy perspectives of mHealth. The Summit will foster an in-depth, interactive dialogue between prominent leaders in the industry who will discuss current technology innovation with an eye toward the future of wireless medical connectivity. The Summit will also focus on the research and evaluation needs of mHealth and facilitate the development and commercialization of clinically validated solutions and systems globally.
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Open-Source Medical Devices Conference
The first Open-Source Medical Devices (OSMD) Conference is going to take place at the Morgridge Institute for Research/Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on December 1, 2011.
Initiated at the University of Wisconsin, the OSMD project aims to promote and facilitate medical research by developing affordable medical devices via an open-source platform for hardware, software and management systems. The project has begun the development of an open-source small animal imaging and radiotherapy system consisting of integrated micro CT/PET/RT systems. Upon completion, the system design will be freely available, thereby providing everyone, including developing countries, with access to cutting-edge yet affordable technology for medical research.
At the one-day conference, we will present the basic schematic and design of the system and we invite other groups to present their related work, potential contributions and collaborations. Interested groups are encouraged to pool their expertise during the conference’s presentation/discussion sessions...
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CDISC® SDTM Conversion
The mission of CDISC is to develop and support global, platform-independent data standards to improve medical research. As a CDISC Gold Member, Clinovo has been continuously supporting the adoption of CDISC standards to accelerate clinical trials. This webinar benefits industry professionals looking for efficient ways to convert clinical data to global standards.
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AfriHealth 2011
On November 30--December 1, researchers, medical practitioners and ICT personnel will gather in Nairobi, Kenya, to attend the 2011 AfriHealth conference and “share information on the developments in the use of ICT to improve health care in Africa."
The theme of the conference will be “Consolidating the gains of technological innovation through effective management.” Several presentations at the conference will discuss the ramifications of using open source methods and software to improve current healthcare practice and efficiency.
Below is a short list of topics that will be presented at the conference...
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Medidata Rave® Custom Functions
Configuring a clinical EDC study in Medidata Rave is simple with good training. Study builders can easily configure eCRFs and review complex edit checks and derivations. However, they often face limitations in Rave when using edit checks and derivations. As we will demonstrate in our webinar, custom functions are better adapted to address complex study protocol requirements. Our Medidata Rave experts will discuss key benefits and programming techniques to implement the custom functions best-suited to your clinical study requirements.
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OW2 Conference 2011
OW2Con 2011 will be held November 23-24 at Orange Labs' innovative and professional conference site "Issy Innovation Gardens" in Paris-Issy-Les-Moulineaux. The event will offer two days of high-level technical presentations around open source middleware technologies and generic applications. This will be a unique opportunity for attendees and sponsors of the event to meet with peers and network with the international open source community at large.
The program includes technical and business presentations, all sessions will take place in English language. Parallel sessions (BoFs, side events, third parties projects) will complete the program. Among the main novelties that will be included in the OW2Con 2011 program, the "SQUAT" project (Software Quality Assurance and Trustworthiness) is a major one.
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Open Source India 2011
Open Source India, formerly known as LinuxAsia, started in 2003 with the mission to accelerate the growth of adoption of Open Source in Asia. It has grown to be one of the premier annual open source events in Asia.
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Drupal and Linux: Lessons Learned for Building Open Source Communities
Join us for an Open Your World Forum webcast to explore how Linux and Drupal have evolved as two thriving open source communities competing in the enterprise world. Our guests, Michael Tiemann, Vice President of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat, and Dries Buytaert, creator of Drupal and co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Acquia will share their personal stories and perspectives on how they lead their respective communities through the social and cultural turning points and the lessons they learned along the way...
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Medsphere OpenVistA Webinar
Medsphere will host a one-hour interactive Webinar to discuss a variety of topics related to the OpenVista electronic health record solution. The live, interactive presentation is designed to help administrative, clinical and IT professionals understand how our open-source EHR system helps healthcare providers. Read More »
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