Education & Training
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OpenMRS Training
A range of OpenMRS training materials are being worked on by the community and are currently available from a number of sources. In addition to materials on the OpenMRS Community wiki, check out the FOSS 4 Health web site, and Open Health News (OHN) video links. Read More »
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OpenMRS Video Presentations Posted on the Web
The Open Medical Record System (OpenMRS) is an open source electronic medical record system (EMR) platform for developing countries supported by a non-profit collaborative led by the Regenstrief Institute and Partners In Health. There is a rapidly growing 'open' community of OpenMRS software developers, users, and vendors around the world. Watch selected video presentations from several OpenMRS community members that they have been posted on YouTube – click on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkGyNBYMTxM&feature=related
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OpenSimulator
OpenSimulator, also referred to as OpenSim, is an open source multi-platform, multi-user 3D application server. It can be used to create a virtual environment or world which can be accessed through a variety of clients, on multiple protocols. OpenSimulator allows virtual world developers to customize their worlds for various purposes, e.g. eGames, Medical Education, etc.
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OSEHRA Education & Training Program
The Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) Education Group has helped to establish the OSEHRA Multimedia Education Portal. Read More »
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OSS Watch
OSS Watch provides unbiased advice, guidance, news, and information on the use, development, and licensing of free and open source software for use in Education.
OSS Watch is composed of a team of experts in free and open source software providing an independent, non-advocacy advisory service based out of the University of Oxford. Read More »
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Red Hat Open Source Training & Certification Program
Red Hat provides training and certification on a variety of open source software products, e.g. Linux, JBOSS, etc. The training is offered via a wide range of training venues - classroom, onsite, self paced, remote training.
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Sakai
Sakai is a widely used open source Content Management System (CMS) and Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) software solution designed for education, research and related scholarly activities. Read More »
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Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)
The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative has helped create the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM).SCORM capability supports the Next Generation Learning Environment of ADL’s overarching research and development strategies. Read More »
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The Fix Isn't In
By now, you’ve probably heard of Sci-Hub, a collection of millions of articles being gathered through borrowed or stolen library logins, then loaded onto servers abroad for anyone to download. The woman who started it has been called a modern-day Robin Hood. Also, a criminal. There has also been heated debate about why librarians aren’t doing more to back publishers in this fight. After all, these thieves are taking advantage of licensed scholarship that costs libraries billions of dollars annually! Surely we want to stop this rampant theft!
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U.N. University: Open Source Training in Health Care
The U.N.University International Institute for Global Health is currently offering four online courses on Open Source Training in Health Care. These include the foundation course for the Open Source Training in Health Care where participants learn how to use Ubuntu as an alternative operating system and OpenOffice for daily routine tasks such as letter writing, slide presentation and spread sheet. Installation of a scripting language such as PHP and a backend database such as MySQL are also be covered. Read More »
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UNESCO Open Educational Resources Portal
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) believes that universal access to high quality education is key to the building of peace, sustainable social and economic development, and intercultural dialogue. Read More »
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VEHU & VA VistA Training
VA eHealth University (VeHU) is VA’s major annual training conference that provides education on the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) and related clinical software (VistA) developed by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Each year, VeHU highlights innovations towards patient care through over 200 training classes on VHA’s clinical informatics products. Their website brings the exciting training offered annually at VeHU to all VA staff and the VistA user community. It is primarily intended for use by those familiar with VA clinical software (VistA and CPRS) and its related terminology. Read More »
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Video Clips on EHR, PHR, HIE, and HIT Systems
The following are links to selected videos on YouTube about Electronic Health Record (EHR), Personal Health Record (PHR), Health Information Exchange (HIE) systems, and other useful Health Information Technologies (HIT) - Read More »
Video Presentations Posted by VistA Community Members
The VistA Community is composed of a growing number of organizations that provide system implementation, software development, training, and other support services for the open source VistA electronic health record (EHR) system. Watch selected video presentations from several VistA organizations in the VistA community on their versions of the open source VistA electronic health record (EHR) system that they have been posted on YouTube – click on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK_eIik37X4
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VistA Institute
The Telecommunications and Information Policy Group (TIPG) of the University of Hawaii (UH) realizes that there is a growing demand for cost effective electronic health record (EHR) systems and a lack of training and trained personnel to support them. Therefore, TIPG has established the VistA Institute, an OpenVista / VistA training and certification program.The Institute offers an educat Read More »
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