Education & Training

Information about 'open source' and health IT educational and training programs, organizations, conferences, seminars, courses, software tools, web portals, and more.

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Indian Health Service RPMS Training

Indian Health Service (IHS) provides access to online training materials for the various RPMS software modules. The training is primarily designed to meet the needs of health care providers and staff at IHS and Tribal health programs. Read More »

Kuali

The Kuali Foundation is a non-profit organization that enables colleges, universities, and commercial firms to achieve their collective objectives via open source collaboration. The organization coordinates the efforts of partners, manages and protects the community's intellectual property, and handles common concerns across the Kuali Projects. Read More »

Linux Professional Institute (LPI)

A non-profit organization, the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is the global certification standard and career support organization for open source professionals. With more than 200,000 certification holders, it's the world’s first and largest vendor-neutral Linux and open source certification body. LPI has certified professionals in over 180 countries, delivers exams in multiple languages, and has hundreds of training partners.

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Live Medsphere OpenVistA Webinars

Press Release | Medsphere | April 23, 2011

Interactive EHR Presentations

Medsphere hosts regular one-hour interactive Webinars on a variety of topics related to our OpenVista electronic health record solution. These live, interactive presentations are designed to help administrative, clinical and IT professionals understand how our open-source EHR system helps healthcare providers: Read More »

Masters In Counseling: Free Social Networking & Information Web Sites

Masters In Counseling.Org is a free informational web site for those who are interested in enrolling in an online degree program to obtain a Master of Counseling degree. The site now contains a list of pages on Google+, just compiled by Laura Harris, that link to social networking sites with information and resources aimed specifically at the mental health and counseling communities. Read More »

Mirth Training & Certification Program

Mirth open source health IT solutions are used daily by thousands of health professionals across the U.S. to streamline care processes and to securely exchange health information.  Mirth offers two levels of Mirth Certification: a Fundamentals & Advanced Training. Learn how to run your solutions effectively. Read More »

Mirth Video Presentations on the Web

Peter Groen | Open Health News | May 22, 2011

Mirth is an open source solution for healthcare interoperability consisting of several modules, e.g. an HL7 messaging interface; a clinical data repository; and a master patient index (MPI). It has a robust 'open' community of developers, users, vendors, and others supporting Mirth Projects. There is a rapidly growing 'open' community of Mirth software developers, users, and vendors around the world. Watch selected video presentations from several  Mirth community members that they have been posted on YouTube – click on  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzAOfMNxAHE Read More »

Moodle

Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It has become very popular among educators around the world as a tool for creating online dynamic web sites for their students. It is a useful tool that can be used for medical education and training purposes.

Nursing Informatics Learning Center

This Nursing Informatics Learning Center web site has been created to offer comprehensive resources and continuing education (CE) courses certified by the California Board of Nursing for professionals interested in developing their knowledge and skills related to nursing informatics. The web site also offers articles, blogs, and many other links and resources of interest related to nursing informatics. Read More »

Online Masters in Public Health

The 'Online Masters in Public Health' web site strives to be the premier online directory and educational resource for students obtaining a Masters Degree in Public Health.  For example, the web site contains a detailed student’s guide to the numerous specialty concentrations in the field of public health, and substantial information about potential careers to pursue after graduation. Read More »

Open Education Europa

The European Commission launched Open Education Europa in September 2013 as part of the 'Opening Up Education' initiative to provide a single gateway to European Open Education Resources (OER). This portal supports the transformation of education through technology. Read More »

Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons

The Open Education Resources (OER) Commons is an organization, movement, and web site developing and making teaching and learning materials freely available for everyone to use, whether you are a teacher or a learner. Read More »

Open Health IT Video Channel

Peter Groen | YouTube | April 15, 2012

The Open Health IT Video Channel on YouTube contains playlists of selected videos grouped according to topics, e.g. Open Source, Open Health IT Software, Open Architecture & Standards, Open Access, Open Data, Open Communities, Public Health, Consumer Health & Open PHR Systems, Open Health Information Exchange (HIE) solutions, and more. Read More »

Open Learning Exchange (OLE)

Open Learning Exchange (OLE) International is committed to removing the barriers to learning so that all students can access and enjoy learning that is open, free and meaningful, enabling them to become productive, life-long learners and leaders across the world. Read More »

Open Training Platform

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has established a web-based Open Training Platform with links to open source, open access, open data, and open standards related to education & training.