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openSUSE medical team releases stable version 0.0.6

Some month our team was busy, and so you hasn’t heard about us. But we are alive. We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Distribution who still medical needs.

Whats happened? In the beginning of the project we tried to package some stuff just as beginning. Then we published 2 pre versions, but there we found some things to fix. We have worked hard for you, and now we are pleased to announce openSUSE medical version 0.0.6 with fresh packaged packages.
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Call for participation Med-e-Tel FLOSS-HC track (6-8 April 2011, Luxembourg)

The 2nd FLOSS in health care track at Med-e-Tel 2011 will take place at the 6-8 April 2011 in Luxembourg. Contributions are highly welcome.

After the success of its first edition at Med-e-Tel 2010 (23 speakers, 1 keynote presentation, 1 panel discussion), the Free/Libre Open Source Software in Health Care (FLOSS-HC) track 2011 aims to create the leading European summit bringing together FLOSS-HC developers, service providers and users from all over the world to cross-fertilize Open technological, business and social initiatives to shape the future of open health care systems.

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The Open Source Effect: Akaza Research Provides Insight into Rapid Growth of OpenClinica

OpenClinica, the open source clinical trials software has seen a surge in usage over the past year, according to survey data released today by Akaza Research.

“Our recent survey of the OpenClinica community showed strong expansion in all key measurements of system usage,” said Cal Collins, Chief Executive Officer at Akaza. “In the past year we have seen doubling in the number of OpenClinica users and subjects, and a nearly 10-fold increase in regulatory submissions.”

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The 2010 Healthcare Finance News Virtual Conference and Expo: Healthcare Finance in an Era of Political Reform and Economic Recession

Submit a proposal focused on medical banking for the upcoming conference. The call is open until July 16.

The September 2009 Healthcare Finance News Virtual Conference & Expo attracted over 1,000 registrants consisting of CFOs, COOs, CEOs, CIOs, revenue cycle directors, compliance officers, and other healthcare finance professionals.

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Astronaut Announces VistA Installer Suite 0.9-5 Beta

Houston, Texas — Astronaut, LLC announces the latest edition of its Astronaut VistA Installer Suite Beta version 0.9-5 (Third Stage). This release adds many features including an all modular, upgradeable and extensible architecture. This means that automatic and semi-automatic upgrading and extension on a large scale can be done. Out-of-the-box backup and restore capability is included as well as many new TMG-CPRS features such as template calculation and html form rendering. The VistA-Config administration tool adds stability and improved workflow for frequently used user management. Beta testing instructions can be found in the README-First file <a href=”http://sourceforge.net/projects/astronaut/files/”>here</a>.