K.S. Bhaskar writes: As you may be aware, the next VistA Community Meeting will be at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Tuesday through Thursday, January 9-11, 2007. We hope that you will
be able to attend. The URL for registration for those who are not WorldVistA members is here and you will need to login to SPORG with a SPORG username to complete the registration. There is a separate registration URL for WorldVistA members, who receive a reduced rate…Please note: you must be registered in advance to enter NIST. Unlike
prior VistA Community Meetings, NIST security procedures do not allow
for walk in registration at this meeting.’

Anthony Presley and Resolution Software are successfully running ClearHealth in a live environment! As far as I know this is first company besides Uversa or SynSeer to do this!

This is an important step forward in the eco-system of support for this codebase and congratulations are in order to the Resolution team!

–Fred Trotter

SCALE 5X registration is now open! The Expo is now accepting early registrations. A full pass (expo floor and seminars is $60 until January 24, 2007, and $70 thereafter, a student pass is $30 until January 24, 2007, and $35 thereafter, and an expo-floor-only pass is $10. Join us for over 40 seminars and tutorials. Presentations from Chris Dibona, Ted Haeger, Don Marti, and more! Expo floor will include exhibits by Dell, ClearHealth, Google, Krugle, Ingres, Trolltech, and others.

SCALE, (Southern California Linux Exposition) has recently released a call for papers for its healthcare day. Generally we are interested in seeing solid presentations of the application of Free and Open Source Software to the healthcare environment. If you are doing something innovative that the world needs to know about, this is your opportunity! Read on for more information regarding the type of topics that would be welcome!

Fred Trotter

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Here’s a collection of links about Kaiser’s problems with its electronic medical record:
http://histalk.blog-city.com/

http://www.ihealthbeat.org/index.cfm?action=dspItem&itemID=127259&changedID=127234

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-kaiser8nov08,1,4250636.story?coll=la-headlines-business

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The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) has announced plans to host the 2007 Open Source Health Care Summit as part of their upcoming 2007 conference, SCALE 5x.

The focus of this event will be on the use of open-source software in the health care industry. The goal of this event is to foster an awareness of the availability of open-source options to medical organizations, private practices, and hospitals. The Open-Source Health Care Summit will be held on February 9, 2007 at the Los Angeles Airport Westin Hotel.

The Third International Conference on Open Source Systems will be held in Limerick, Ireland 11-14 June 2007. The goal of the conference is intended to “provide an international forum where a diverse community of professionals from academia, industry and public administration can come together to share research findings and practical experiences. The conference is also meant to provide information and education to practitioners, identify directions for further research, and to be an ongoing platform for technology transfer.”

The conference general chair is Dr. Walt Scacchi at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine

For more information, go to:
http://oss2007.dti.unimi.it/

Ignacio Valdes, Editor of Linux Medical News and Vice Chair of the AMIA Open Source Working Group is the recipient of the inaugural annual award of the IMIA Open Source Working Group. The award is made in recognition of long-standing significant achievment in the promotion of free/libre and open source software in health informatics.

The award was presented at the annual business meeting of the AMIA OSWG in Washington DC on 13 November, 2006 by Peter Murray, IMIA Vice President for Working Groups and Special Interest Groups.

The IMIA General Assembly approved on 10 November 2006 the establishment of an annual award by the IMIA Open Source Health Informatics Working Group (OSWG). The inaugural award will be made at the AMIA OSWG meeting on 13 November in Washington DC.

The IMIA General Assembly also finally ratified the proposal for the IMIA OSWG to co-sponsor the Annual Linux Medical News Award.

Final bit of breaking news for those who like to plan ahead – the medinfo2010 conference will be held in Cape Town, South Africa.

According to ModernHealthCare.com, Medsphere signs Indian Health Service deal (registration required)
Medsphere Systems Corp., Aliso Viejo, Calif., has signed a one-year contract with the Indian Health Service to provide ongoing development, support and expansion of clinical information technology systems at the IHS.