[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Open Source Software (FOSS) for Healthcare

[Tyler Mitchell]

FYI - in case anyone is in the area or interested...

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ed Dodds <dodds at conmergence.com>
> Date: April 4, 2007 10:07:26 AM PDT (CA)
> To: nosi-discussion at nosi.net, riders-tech at npogroups.org,  
> npodevelopers at list.nten.org
> Subject: [Nosi-discussion] Houston Symposium: Free and Open Source  
> Software (FOSS) for Healthcare
> Reply-To: dodds at conmergence.com
>
> On 4/4/07, Ignacio Valdes <ivaldes at hal-pc.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all, If you are in Houston April 24th, come on by. If you are  
>> already in
>> Houston and would like to attend, please register:
>>
>> Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Healthcare: Progress and  
>> Promise
>> School of Health Information Sciences, UT-Houston
>> University Center Tower
>> 7000 Fannin, 14th Floor
>> Tuesday, April 24th
>> 8 am - 3 pm
>> TO REGISTER: CONTACT CYNTHIA CASTRO
>> Cynthia.Castro at uth.tmc.edu or 713-500-3901
>>
>> 8:00    Registration
>> 9:00    Welcome
>>     Jack Smith, MD, PhD
>>     School of Health Information Sciences
>>     Dean
>>
>> 9:05    "Lowering the Barrier to a Decentralized NHIN Using the Open
>> Healthcare     Framework"
>> Eishay Smith
>>     Director Open Source
>>     IBM
>>
>> 10:00    "The Microsoft of Medicine vs. The Google of Medicine"
>> Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS
>>     Chief Technology Officer
>>     Your Doctor Program, L.P.
>>     Founder, Linux Medical News
>>     Recipient:     Inaugural 2006 International Medical Informatics
>> Association
>> Award for Open Source Software
>>
>> 10:45    "Content Management and the Experience of Plone"
>> Alan Runyan
>>     President Enfold Systems
>>     Plone and the Plone Foundation Founder
>>
>> 11:15    Lunch served for first fifty seminar registrants (SO CALL TO
>> REGISTER)
>>
>> 12:00-1:00    Luncheon speaker: Schull Institute Scholars Program
>>         Introduction:     William J Schull, PhD
>>                 Ashbell Smith Professor Emeritus
>>                 President, Schull Institute
>> "Toward FOSS Health Care Informatics Systems Integration in Latin  
>> America"
>>         Jorge Raúl Rodríguez Yañez, MD
>>         FOSS Developments Coordinator, Bioengineering Faculty,  
>> National
>> University of Entre
>>           Rios, Paraná, Argentina
>>         Founder and Executive Director, BioLinux Group, Buenos Aires,
>> Argentina
>>         Informatics Coordinator of Hospital General de Aguos Dr.  
>> Velez
>> Sarsfield, Buenos Aires,
>>           Argentina
>>         Recipient:  LIS Day 2006 Award, @LIS Society of  
>> Information, Europe
>>
>> 1:30-3:00    Roundtable: Approaches for Open Source for Translational
>> Research
>>         Moderator:       Kim Dunn, MD, PhD
>>             Jack Smith, MD, PhD
>>             Dean, School of Health Information Sciences
>>             Director, Biomedical Informatics, CTSA, UT-Houston
>> Charles Hurmiz
>>      St. Jude's Hospital
>>             Lynn Vogel, Ph.D.
>>             Chief Information Officer
>>             MD Anderson
>>
>>
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>
>
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> facilitating convergence
> dodds at conmergence.com
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