Talk #1: Industry Leaders Take on Open Source Healthcare

Opening Panel Discussion with (in order of appearance) Fred Trotter Intro then Ben Mehling from Medsphere, David Uhlman from ClearHealth, Gerald Bortis from WebReach and Ben Baumann from Akaza Research. Download the MP3.

Talk #2: The Health of the Source With Fred Trotter of HealthQuilt and FredTrotter.com

A complete roundup of 2008 & 2009 Open Source Healthcare projects and people. See the presentation and Download the MP3.

Talk #3: The promise and limitation of health information technology in national health reform with Roger Maduro of Lxis Consulting.

See the presentation and Download the MP3.

Talk #4: Open Source Odyssey for Sharing Medical Records with Guy Fisher of Wesp Consulting and the Primary Care Coalition

Concepts and lessons learned. An Overview of the 50 site Montgomery County Maryland/Primary Care Coalition CHLCare (ClearHealth) system providing practice management, electronic medical records and health information exchange. See the presentation and Download the MP3.

Talk #5: A Practical Application of Open Source Strategies in a Not-So-Conventional Health Care Company with Tim Elwell of Misys

A presentation on the the four critical components for consideration in the framing of an Open Source strategy and what must be considered in the creation of an Open Source strategy in a traditionally closed source health care company. See the presentation and Download the MP3.

Talk #6: It’s all about the Community with Neil Cowles of Tolven Health

Evidencing the important roles domain experts have in an open source healthcare and life science project. See the presentation and Download the MP3.

Talk #7: Security and Health Care with K.S. Bhaskar of Fidelity Information Systems and Jon Tai of Medsphere

Security common sense and securing VistA and other health care systems. See the presentation and Download the MP3.

3rd Annual Demonstrating Open-Source Health Care Solutions (DOHCS)
Call For Papers
(Download as PDF)

Notice: Call For Papers has been extended to November 15th.

We are proud to announce the arrival of the third annual DOHCS conference, the only event dedicated to Open Source in Healthcare. This event will be held in conjunction with the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) on February 20, 2009 in Los Angeles, California at the Los Angeles Westin LAX.

We invite you to share your work with, or use of, Open-Source healthcare software with the rest of the community, and exchange ideas with some of the leading experts in these fields. Details about the event can be found at http://www.dohcs.org

In response to the overwhelming demand from our 2008 event, we are again expecting to  hold two tracks. Track one will focus on the business aspects, case studies, and Open-Source successes throughout health care as a whole. Track two will be providing live demonstrations and tutorial information.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Case Studies of using Open-Source in health care environments
• Real world solutions using Open-Source
• Relevance of Open-Source software and open standards for the health care
• Making sense of the standards soup
• Privacy and security of patient data
• Working with HL7
• VistA, past, present and future
• Open-source in the National Health Information Network (NHIN)
• Integrating proprietary systems with Open-Source software
• Open-Source in regional health information organizations (RHIO)
• Open-Source in private medical practices.
• What to consider when choosing Open-Source software for health care
• environments
• Current and future growth of Open-Source in health care
• Use of Open-Source software for health care in government and
• nonprofit settings
• Open-Source in medical research settings and studies
• Practical applications of Open-Source in medical/health care settings

The proposals should be submitted in form of a 1 page extended abstract containing:

• Title for the presentation
• Name, Affiliation, Bio, a passport size picture (optional) and contact email address of the Presenter.
• What will be covered. A bullet list or a brief description of the main points to be presented should be submitted.
• Please include enough detail that will enable the committee to evaluate the proposal.

The presentation setup provided will include:

• microphone
• overhead projector (resolution 1024 x 768)
• a laptop running Linux with a pdf viewer and OpenOffice

Please notify us if the presentation has any specific requirements.
Submissions stored in doc, odt, txt and pdf format will be accepted.

Presentations are allotted a time slot of about 45 minutes. All proposals should be sent to

healthcare-cfp@socallinuxexpo.org

Publication Rights

• The conference requires non-exclusive publication rights to submitted papers including the publication of audio and video proceedings.
• Copyright is retained by the presenter.

Important Dates

• 1 September, 2008: CFP Opens
• 31 October, 2008: Last date for abstracts/proposals
• 15 November, 2008: Last date for notification of acceptance
• 20 Feb, 2009: Day of event