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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>This event is free and open to all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Suchith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Mark Elkins
[mailto:markelkinsmsc@yahoo.co.uk] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 21 October 2010 08:44<br>
<b>To:</b> ossg-announcements@ossg.bcs.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Ossg-announcements] Open Source Health Informatics Conference
27/10/10 - update<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Open Source Health Informatics conference
– London 27/10/10</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><a
href="http://ossg.bcs.org/2010/07/30/open-source-health-informatics-conference-london-271010/">http://ossg.bcs.org/2010/07/30/open-source-health-informatics-conference-london-271010/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>This one day Health Informatics conference hosted and organized by the
Open Source Specialist Group (OSSG) and oshi-uk.com (<a
href="http://www.oshi-uk.com/">http://www.oshi-uk.com/</a>) will be held on
Wednesday 27th October 2010 from around 1000 to 1700 hours at the BCS Central
London Offices, First Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street,
London WC2E 7HA (<a
href="http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/london-office-guide.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/london-office-guide.pdf</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p>This bookable event is <strong>free and open</strong> to all with buffet
and refreshments. To book a place please contact Mark Elkins via <a
href="mailto:mark_elkins@bcs.org">mark_elkins@bcs.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a href="mailto:mark_elkins@bcs.org"><br>
</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The focus of this conference will be around the place that Open Source
software should have in UK healthcare and how a coherent community might be
established around it. For example would: An NHS version of OpenOffice be a
practical proposition?; Could the skillsets that exist within UK healthcare
be utilised to create sustainable implementations of Open Source software?;
How would the requirements for this be gathered?; Is standardisation via Open
Source software a viable aim across the UK healthcare sector?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong>Institution</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>10:00<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Mark Elkins &<br>
Paul Richardson<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>BCS OSSG &<br>
healthMotiv Limited<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Scene setting<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>10:15<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>John Chelsom & Raju Aluwhalia<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Centre for Health Informatics, City University<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Open Health Informatics – A Fresh Approach to NHS IT<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
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<p class=MsoNormal>11:00<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Matthew Barker<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Canonical<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Case Study: Great Ormond Street Hospital<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>11:30<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Break<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td>
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<p class=MsoNormal>11:45<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Denise Downs<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Department of Health Informatics Directorate<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Establishing an open source ecosystem in UK for health
informatics<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>12:15<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Les Hatton<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Forensic Software Engineering, Kingston University<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>FOSS systems: why do we not use them more ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>13:00<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Lunch<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td>
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<p class=MsoNormal>13:45<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Didier Leibovici and Suchith Anand<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Centre for Geospatial Science, Nottingham University<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Open Source and Open Standards in Health Mapping<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>14:15<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Malcolm Newbury<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Guildfoss Limited<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Case Study: An open source IHE XDS clinical document
repository<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>14:45<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Gnumed: importing HL7 v3 lab data<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>15:15<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Break<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td>
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<p class=MsoNormal>15:30<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Eckhard Schwarzat<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
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<p class=MsoNormal>ValueDecision Ltd<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Open Source solutions for the front line<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>16:15<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Ben Tebbs<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Pentaho<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Case Study: An open source Business Intelligence suite
for NHS Islington<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>16:45<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Paul Richardson &<br>
Mark Elkins<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>healthMotiv Limited &<br>
BCS OSSG<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Conclusion<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>17:00<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Finish<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p><strong>Presentation details:</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p><strong>Matthew Barker</strong>, Canonical Ltd on using Open Source to
maximise resources with a representative from the Great Ormond Street Hospital
who will be speaking about using Ubuntu and open source.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p><strong>John Chelsom and Raju Aluwhalia -</strong> <strong>Open Health
Informatics – A Fresh Approach to NHS IT</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The NHS is just emerging from a decade of wasted opportunity in the
development of clinical information systems, particularly Electronic Health
Records.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The National Programme for IT was a centralised approach to information
sharing that has failed on a number of levels. This has delayed the
introduction of new systems, weakened the commercial supplier base and
disheartened many IT professionals in the service. The NHS needs a new
approach to clinical IT.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Some have called for the use of more open source software, and it is true
that open source and open standards can go some way towards providing long
term solutions for the NHS.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>But just introducing open source software risks repeating many of the
mistakes that have dogged the National Programme – lack of involvement of
practitioners, protection of the vested interests of product vendors,
reliance on large-scale service providers and over-complicated solutions to
immediate and very practical problems.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Open Health Informatics introduces two new dimensions to the open
standards / open source landscape. Firstly, the use of open interfaces so
that every component of a solution can be plugged in and out at will,
enabling a ‘best of breed’ approach to open source and eliminating once and
for all the product-centric culture that has held back the NHS.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Secondly, the use of open development processes – agile development that
involves users and other stakeholders at every step of the way. Agile, open
processes also eliminate the pretence that users know exactly what they want
at the start of development, or that the solution provider knows exactly how
to deliver it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>This presentation outlines the key concepts of Open Health Informatics,
its potential benefits and drawbacks, and provides feedback on initial
studies and practical implementation undertaken at City University, London.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>John Chelsom is a Professor at the Centre for Health Informatics, City
University, London and Managing Partner at Eleven Informatics LLP. He holds a
degree in Electrical Engineering and a PhD for work on the application of
knowledge-based systems in critical care medicine. For fifteen years he headed
a software company which developed some of first web-based health records
systems in the NHS and played a major part in designing and implementing
systems for the National Programme for IT. He accepted the award for ‘SME of
the Year’ from the BCS in 2007. At City University he heads a research
programme investigating, evaluating and promoting the use of Open Health
Informatics for the development of clinical information systems.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p><strong>Denise Downs, Department of Health Informatics Directorate</strong>
will talk about a Connecting For Health (CFH) research project with York
University on establishing an open source ecosystem in UK for health
informatics<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p><strong>Mark Elkins, Chair, OSSG</strong> will introduce and chair the
conference.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p><strong>Les Hatton – FOSS systems: why do we not use them more ?</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>We do not have a very good record in deploying successful large systems in
the UK. The health sector is arguably the largest absorber of funding for
such systems and as such has come in for a justifiable share of the
opprobrium, with numerous difficulties being reported in various systems,
notably the flagship Connecting for Health program.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>What is the role of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) in all this ? It
is usually greeted by suspicion and yet much of the world’s IT infrastructure
depends on it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>This talk highlights some of the less obvious benefits of open source. Yes
its free, but consider the following:<o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Many of its significant projects are
astonishingly reliable when compared with their commercial equivalents.
The Linux kernel is now by a number of measures the most reliable
complex application the human race has managed to construct so far.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Its evolutionary aspects are much more
suited to the shifting sands of requirements inherent<br>
in the successful deployment of major systems.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>The unusually high quality of its amateur
researchers has solved many of the world’s knottier IT problems, for
example, FOSS contributors in Bayesian and other forms of filtering have
effectively conquered spam. If you get spam its because of the ignorance
of<br>
your ISP and not because of the lack of a sophisticated solution.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Its informal support is in my experience
far better than support from big suppliers. How many levels of telephone
menu can you take ?<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p>I will give a number of examples to support these and other points
including a comparative assessment of the Welsh equivalent of the Connecting
for Health program.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The bottom line is that its relatively straight-forward to build
high-quality scalable systems at a modest price. All you have to do is to
heed important historical lessons about engineering, most of which have
evolved naturally in FOSS systems.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Les Hatton MA, MSc, LLM, PhD, C.Eng is managing director of Oakwood
Computing Associates Ltd. and holds the Chair of Forensic Software
Engineering at the Kingston University, London. He received a number of
international prizes for geophysics in the 1970s and 1980s before becoming
interested in software reliability and switching careers in the 1990s.
Although he has spent most of his working life in industry, he was formerly a
Professor of Geophysics at the University of Delft, the Netherlands and prior
to that an Industrial Fellow in Geophysics at Wolfson College Oxford.<br>
He has published many technical papers and his 1995 book “Safer C” helped
promote the use of safer language subsets in embedded control systems and
paved the way for the automotive industry’s widelyused MISRA C standard. He
has designed, implemented and/or managed the production of successful
government and commercial IT systems, from 50,000 source lines up to the
world’s first portable seismic data processing package, SKS, eventually
comprising some 2,000,000 source lines.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>His primary interests in computing science are forensic engineering,
information security, legal liability and the theory of large systems
evolution. In mathematics, he is active in signal processing, medical
image processing, sports biomechanics and modelling the effects of high
frequency sound on marine mammals.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>He is the guitarist and harmonica player with the Juniper Hill Blues Band.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p><strong>Didier Leibovici and Suchith Anand -</strong> <strong>Open Source
and Open Standards in Health Mapping</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Open source geospatial software tools offer new opportunities for
developers to create health mapping applications more quickly and at lower
cost. The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit
organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative
development of open geospatial technologies and data. OSGeo also serves as an
outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community,
and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving
cross-project collaboration. The foundation’s projects are all freely
available and usable under an OSI certified open source licence. The
development of standards for geospatial domain has been spearheaded by the
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) – a group of over 400 private, public and
academic organisations. The OGC aims to facilitate interoperability between
geospatial technologies through education, standards and other initiatives.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>This presentation will cover the key concepts of Open Source and Open
Standards in Health mapping and epidemiological studies based on initial
research undertaken at Centre for Geospatial Science at the University of
Nottingham. The presentation will also cover (i) different user perspectives,
e.g. public and community, research, health professionals and (ii) different
interaction levels, e.g. simple data “mashups” (overlay), use of web
processing services (WPS) etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Didier G. Leibovici, is a Research Fellow in geospatial modelling and
analysis, with previous posts as statistician in epidemiological/medical
imaging research and as geomatician for landscape changes in agro- ecology.
Research Interests include interoperability and conflation models for
cross-scales for integrated modelling applications within an interoperable
framework chaining web services.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Suchith Anand is Ordnance Survey Research Fellow at the Centre for Geospatial
Science, University of Nottingham. He is founder and co-Chair of both the ICA
working group on Open Source<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Geospatial Technologies and the Open Source GIS UK conference series. His
research interests are in Open Source GIS, optimization techniques, data
conflation and automated generalization.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>More details at <a
href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/%7Elgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p><strong>Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton</strong> – gnumed importing HL7 v3
lab data<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p><strong>Malcolm Newbury</strong>, <strong>Guildfoss Limited – Case Study:
An open source IHE XDS clinical document repository</strong>. This talk will
include covering XDS and its open source componentry covering where to use
openesb and muralon.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Malcolm is an experienced programme and consulting manager with an
extensive track record of delivery in open source healthcare integration and
collaboration services. At Sun Microsytem’s he managed integration services
to over 100 NHS accounts including Spine, delivered Sun ’s implementation of
Choose and Book at key London Trusts and went on to devise and promote Sun’s
open source strategy for healthcare worldwide. At PA Consulting he delivered
some key phases of some important data sharing initiatives such as GP2GP and
the NHS Data Dictionary. He is also supplier co-chair of IHE-UK.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p><strong>Paul Richardson</strong> on scene setting with general vision and
practical steps. Paul has recently created <a href="http://www.oshi-uk.com/">http://www.oshi-uk.com/</a>
which is an expression/discussion focal point on the adoption of Open Source
by the NHS.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p><strong>Eckhard Schwarzat – Open Source solutions for the front line</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>NHS provider organisations current status
and capacity for change<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>Macro level: Reorganisation of the NHS,
cuts, cuts, cuts<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>Meta level: Change and inertia<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>Micro level: Open Source message is
received by what type of organisation exactly?<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>Dental Open ERP<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>The intended primary user group: Salaried
Dental Services<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>The needs and requirements<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>Agile development<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>Business Analysis and End-User involvement<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>Open Standards<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>The benefits<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>Thoughts on support of Open Source on the
macro level<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p>Eckhard is an experienced project and programme manager who has worked for
one of the ‘big four’ as a consulting manager. He has worked mainly on
Business Intelligence and Performance Management projects and programmes
throughout Europe. A postgraduate degree in Public Management and
Administration as well as a Master of Research in Informatics from the
University of Constance, Germany and the University of Manchester in addition
with a special interest in Decision Analysis are his academic
foundation.Promoting, using and implementing Open Source solutions since the
last five years in various sectors, Eckhard is also a trained Paramedic
(Nothing to be concerned about, the last ambulance shift was more than ten
years ago).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p><strong>Ben Tebbs, Pentaho </strong>-<strong> Case Study: An open source
Business Intelligence suite for NHS Islington</strong>. A graduate of
Sheffield and Coventry Universities, Ben joined Pentaho in October 2009 to
drive forward the UK & Ireland business. With 17 years in the enterprise
software business with ITSM, BPM and BI players Metastorm and Datawatch,
amongst others, Ben manages key UK Pentaho NHS customers such as Islington
PCT and the NHS Information Centre as well as being responsible for new
business. He brings a strong track record in BI to bear alongside a deep
knowledge of the NHS marketplace.<o:p></o:p></p>
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