The Medical Banking Project announced that it is collaborating with the Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center to organize a panel with top-level health care CEOs and policy experts to discuss the creation of a new “Federal Health Board” at its 2009 Medical Banking Institute on March 11-13, 2009 in Nashville, TN. More here http://tinyurl.com/medical-banking-fed

The Internet Educational Equal Access
Foundation (IEEAF), along with several partners, has received
a planning
grant from the National Science
Foundation to propose very high speed Internet extensions, on
the order of 10 Gbps, to connect the academic, research, health and
non-governmental organization (NGO) communities in African countries
to the rest of the world. Such connections would provide African
universities and medical centers connectivity equivalent to the best
available to comparable institutions in the United States. To win
the large grant that would allow the network connection to be implemented,

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Medsphere’s reference deployment of VistA, Midland Hospital, has been featured in computer world. The article reveals interesting facts that I was previously unaware of:

To assess these risks, Midland turned to Deloitte Consulting, which provided a plan to mitigate them: gauge Medsphere consultants’ willingness to sign on as Midland employees should Medsphere go belly up.

Overall a good article.

As Vincent reported in his post “Medical GNOME“, the French company Supersonic Imagine (founded in 2005) just announced its next-generation ultrasound system for breast lesion imaging that will come with mostly Open Source software components.
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A National Dialogue is a site for proposing and commenting on ideas in Health IT created by the National Academy of Public Administration. (amoung others) The site is only open for a few days, if you have something to say (at least to this audience), now is the time.

I have already put forward the basic thesis of Insist on Open Source in Health IT that most LinuxMedNews sympathizers will agree with. The site is only open for comment for a few days. Please help me to get this message to the important organizations who are listening!

Fred Trotter

OpenEMR HQ, a small NE Oklahoma based OpenEMR and VistA consultancy and development firm, announced early Sunday afternoon that it will offer its fourth online OpenEMR training on Friday, November 7th, 2008 at 5:00pm central time. The training, which will cover installing, configuring, and administering OpenEMR, will last for one and a half hours and contain a question and answer section.

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MedinTux is a powerful medical software, multiuser (using MySQL for data storage), easy-to-use (thanks to Qt development toolkit), complete, working from the GP to the hospital.

Its unique design makes it the most customisable software you can dream of.

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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!

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.

Google’s got it’s own browser now : Google Chrome. It’s more than just an open source browser, it’s more of an application framework.
Chrome is an Open Source browser based on the Open-Source rendering engine WebKit. It has it’s own javascript virtual machine called: V8. It is a multithreaded browser which makes it more of an OS than a browser. It is hard to underestimate the potential of this new framework for all of software computing, let alone Open Source Medical Apps !