It is becoming more and more clear to me that decision makers in healthcare policy and especially in healthcare IT policy do not understand the real underlying problems of interoperability in healthcare applications.
Dare I also say that most developers don’t either?
There are a few remaining spots available in the upcoming OpenClinica training course, October 15-17. This is a great, cost effective way to become an expert in learning how to use OpenClinica. Registration is on a first come, first serve basis. For more information about the
course and a registration form, see:
http://www.openclinica.org/page.php?pid=89.
This will be our first training on OpenClinica 2.5. These spots will likely go quickly, so hurry up and register today!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Deborah Bryant
GOSCON Director deborah@osuosl.org 971-533-8050
GOSCON 2008 Showcases Open Public Health IT
Groundbreaking event highlights real-world business cases and applications
for open source in government
Portland, Ore. � September 18, 2008 � Deborah Bryant, GOSCON Director,
announced today that the Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) 2008
conference will feature an Open Public Health IT track to explore both a
strategic direction for open source software in the public health sector as
well as real-world applications that are in use today by agencies around the
world.
In another smart move by the “new medsphere”, medsphere.org has been retooled as a community forge. They are in soft-launch now, and will make a formal announcement soon. The new site is far more community-friendly than the old one. Its a critical part of the Medsphere strategy to get the VistA community to migrate from Hardhats (and the FOIA VistA/WorldVistA that is typically discussed there) to medsphere.org and (which centers on OpenVistA). Recent licensing changes, as well as this newly improved site are smart moves to that end. The new site is already filling with good content, including a comparison between FOIA CPRS and Medsphere CIS.
The Health e-IT Act of 2008 has many interesting proposals. Of note, is the charge to ONC to create an Open Source EMR to be completed 9 months from the completion of requirements(page 18)PDF text of bill here.
On page 41 the act calls for NIST to create a standard and certification process for EMRs.
By my stopwatch, it’s been around 11 years since it was obvious that an Open Source EMR to rule them all was the way to go. Nice to see the goverment actually catch on.
Source: http://www.emrupdate.com/forums/t/16574.aspx
Healthcare’s leading Open Source companies are partnering to present the Third Annual Demonstrating Open-Source Healthcare Solutions (DOHCS) conference on February 20, 2009, at the Los Angeles Westin LAX. Through the combined efforts of ClearHealth, Medsphere (OpenVista), Akaza Research (OpenClinica) and WebReach (Mirth), DOHCS will complement the Southern California Linux Exposition (SCALE) held at the same location on February 21 and 22.
Congressman Pete Stark (D-Calif) has introduced H.R. 6898 full text of the bill here
which takes a strong stance on Open Source and VistA, calling specifically for an Open Source health information network if possible based upon existing systems such as Veterans Affairs VistA.
SCALE 7x, the 7th Annual Southern California Linux Expo has issued a call for papers. SCALE 7x will be held on Feb 20-22, 2009 at the Los Angeles Airport Westin. If you are working on an interesting open-source / Linux related project, or would like address the community, SCALE welcomes you to submit a presentation proposal.
OpenEMR HQ announced today that it has posted the first public screenshots of its upcoming software release called Phoenix to a special area of its website specially set up as a resource for those interested in the project. Read more after the break…
According to development lead Mishish Prahkah, Phoenix will be released simultaneously as both a Microsoft Windows based frontend to the popular OpenEMR software system and a standalone, open source, EMR package of its own. This, according to Prahkah, will allow OpenEMR HQ developers the freedom to try new ideas out in their own sandbox before pushing them out to the OpenEMR team (with which they will share code and ideas).
The leading companies involved in Open Source Healthcare including ClearHealth, MedSphere (OpenVista), Akaza Research (OpenClinica) and
WebReach (Mirth) have partnered together to deliver the 3rd Annual Demonstrating Open Source Healthcare solutions conference (DOHCS) February 20th, 2009 at the Los Angeles Westin LAX. This event takes place in association with the Southern California Linux Exposition (SCALE) at the same location on the 21st and 22nd. Read on for Call For Papers.