Past Events

China Open Source Week is the grouping together of several open source events and meetings in the same week in order to achieve maximum efficiency and benefits for the attendees. Read More »

The Defense Strategies Institute (DSI) recently announced a conference to be held on October 11-13 at the Sheraton Suites in Old Town Alexandria, VA. This DoD/VA iEHR and Government HIE Summit event will focus on some of the challenges involved in and solutions required for maintaining/improving the integrated electronic health record (iEHR) and government health information exchange (HIE).

Designed to attract leaders from the U.S. military, government agencies, and various industries and academia, this non partisan effort will “reach across all services and organizations to bring together a truly holistic group of decision makers and solution providers” to provide “unparalleled networking opportunities” and a forum where current challenges and practical health information technology (HIT) solutions can be intelligently discussed and debated. It also functions as an educational and training summit where participants will gain crucial insights from senior-level speakers and will have ample opportunity to interact with the faculty and offer their own insights.

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The 83rd Annual AHIMA Convention & Exhibit will draw health information management professionals from across the U.S. for a weeklong focus on the global transformation of healthcare and health information technology (HIT). This major meeting provides a comprehensive overview of current and emerging health information management issues and challenges. Read More »

The Open World Forum is the leading global summit meeting bringing together decision-makers, communities and developers to cross-fertilize open technological, economic and social initiatives, in order to build the digital future. The event was founded in 2008 and now takes place every year in Paris. Read More »

Our conference this year is on Monday 12th September and Tuesday 13th September 2011 in the fantastic venue of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Read More »

On September 5-8, TransferSummit will host an Open Source conference and training sessions at Keble College in Oxford, UK. The event provides an opportunity for business executives and members of the academic and research community “to discuss requirements, challenges, and opportunities in the use, development, licensing, and future of Open Source technology.”

This year’s event features a two-day conference and two days of training in addition to hands-on learning and break-out sessions, gadget “playtime,” and an intimate setting of no more than 300 participants. There will be a focus on mobile technologies, in addition to networking, open development, and software innovation...

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The integration of informatics, social networking, biobanking/biotechnology and clinical medicine is poised to deliver new translational targets for diagnostic and therapeutic questions in clinical medicine. Clinical medicine and research have steadily separated themselves over the past few decades.

Creating a novel model to harvest community-based clinical practice and harness it for translational research purposes bring clinical practice and research closer together in a practical manner, enabling rethinking of poorly defined diseases and refocusing clinicians on better defined outcomes for any disease - a grand step towards better personalized medicine.

Building a collaborative network involving community clinicians, hospitals, academics, and industry partners is key to the success of this model. Impact of this network to date in practice settings and collaborative environments will be discussed as well as future directions

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This conference will feature over 15 key briefings presented in a highly interactive classroom style format that will lay the building blocks for an improved management system with greater transparency and the effective implementation of Electronic Health Records. Attendees will benefit from several deliveries of the key issues surrounding military health management including case study presentations, hands-on workshops and interactive panel discussions.

Key conference topics

• Achieve greater interoperability between DoD and the VA information systems
• Provide the best possible care for veterans through diligent records management
• Identify and treat medical conditions more effectively through transparency of information
• Comply with the 2013 implementation deadline for ICD9-10 conversion
• Discover technological advances for Military Health Records Management
   

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