OSEHRA 2013 Presentations Now Available Online

Peter GroenThe 2nd Annual Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) Summit & Workshop was held earlier this year in Bethesda, Maryland. All of the procedings from the Summit Conference & Workshop are now posted on the OSEHRA web site and available for viewing by OSEHRA members.

If you would like to join the OSEHRA community and obtain access to the proceeding of the latest Summit, go to the OSEHRA web site and register as an associate member - its free. You must login to your OSEHRA account to view all of the audio/visual presentations.

Some of the OSEHRA Summit proceedings made available include plenary session presentations by:

Seong K. Mun, PhD  - OSEHRA 2013
President and CEO, OSEHRA

Stephen Warren  – Keynote Address
Acting Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs 

Andrew Aitken - OSEHRA and Open Source
Founder and Managing Partner, Olliance Group

Dr. Tony Shannon - NHS VistA: Challenges & Opportunities in the UK National Health Service
Chief Medical Information Officer, NHS Leeds, England, Director, Frectal Ltd

Howard Hays, M.D., MSPH  - The Indian Health Service and Open Source HIT
Chief Information Officer (acting), IHS Office of Information Technology

Peter Groen, MPA  - VistA Installations GIS Map & Database v.1.0
Co-Founder & Senior Editor, Open Health News

Robert Wentz  - Hospital Based Operational Developer Business Model for Open Source EHR
President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Oroville Hospital

* Remember, to access both the audio & visual presentations, you must login to the OSEHRA web site.

In addition to several other keynote presentations, there are over 80 plus abstract presentations from the many informative workshops on Open Source Tools & Technology, Clinical Workflow & Information Integration, Interoperability, Open Source Enterprise EHRs, Open Source Business Models, VistA System activities & enhancements, and much more.

For those who were unable to attend the OSEHRA Summit, this is your opportunity to learn from the tutorial session, listen and watch keynote speakers from the plenary sessions, and discover leading edge healthcare IT technology from the abstract presentations. 

Check out some of the many other collected articles and information about OSEHRA and the open source VistA system posted on Open Health News.