IBM’s Eishay Smith, Enfold Systems Alan Runyan and a few others will be speaking at a one day symposium in Houston entitled ‘Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Healthcare: Progress and Promise’ This will be held at:
School of Health Information Sciences, UT-Houston
University Center Tower
7000 Fannin, 14th Floor
Tuesday, April 24th
Read on for the full agenda and registration info.
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Healthcare: Progress and Promise
School of Health Information Sciences, UT-Houston
University Center Tower
7000 Fannin, 14th Floor
Tuesday, April 24th
8 am – 3 pm
TO REGISTER: CONTACT CYNTHIA CASTRO
Cynthia.Castro@uth.tmc.edu or 713-500-3901
8:00 Registration
9:00 Welcome
Jack Smith, MD, PhD
School of Health Information Sciences
Dean
9:05 “Lowering the Barrier to a Decentralized NHIN Using the Open
Healthcare Framework”
Eishay Smith
Director Open Source
IBM
10:00 “The Microsoft of Medicine vs. The Google of Medicine”
Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS
Chief Technology Officer
Your Doctor Program, L.P.
Founder, Linux Medical News
Recipient: Inaugural 2006 International Medical Informatics
Association
Award for Open Source Software
10:45 “Content Management and the Experience of Plone”
Alan Runyan
President Enfold Systems
Plone and the Plone Foundation Founder
11:15 Lunch served for first fifty seminar registrants (SO CALL TO
REGISTER)
12:00-1:00 Luncheon speaker: Schull Institute Scholars Program
Introduction: William J Schull, PhD
Ashbell Smith Professor Emeritus
President, Schull Institute
“Toward FOSS Health Care Informatics Systems Integration in Latin America”
Jorge Ra�l Rodr�guez Ya�ez, MD
FOSS Developments Coordinator, Bioengineering Faculty,
National University of Entre
Rios, Paran�, Argentina
Founder and Executive Director, BioLinux Group, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Informatics Coordinator of Hospital General de Aguos Dr. Velez
Sarsfield, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Recipient: LIS Day 2006 Award, @LIS Society of Information, Europe
1:30-3:00 Roundtable: Approaches for Open Source for Translational
Research
Moderator: Kim Dunn, MD, PhD
Jack Smith, MD, PhD
Dean, School of Health Information Sciences
Director, Biomedical Informatics, CTSA, UT-Houston
Charles Hurmiz
St. Jude’s Hospital
Lynn Vogel, Ph.D.
Chief Information Officer
MD Anderson