I have been an observer/lurker on this list perhaps because I lack the computing brainpower to be a significant contributor :) I work in remote northern Australia in health = we use a proprietary system which is networked over a wide area. This is a significant achievement, but the system is difficult to use with a poorly designed interface. There are several unrelated systems in other centres. I have promoted OpenEHR to the powers that be here, and they are moving towards an interoperable system. However they are captive to a corporate IT provider as is the case in so many government systems and progress is glacially slow.
Many of the "service items" in the system look like archetypes, except they have been designed in an ad hoc way I admire OpenEHR in that you are "doing" in designing systems and software rather than having expensive talkfests. Still I think meetings have a place and I for one would find it useful to become more involved. Depending on the date, I would be willing to travel to Europe for such a conference Richard Hosking On Sat Nov 28 0:25 , Thomas Beale sent: > > > > > > > >This is an initial informal question to the community about interest in >an openEHR conference / meeting, probably initially located in Europe. >Possibly activities: > > > presentations / papers on commercial & academic projects > technical working design sessions for major upcoming >specifications > clinical modelling design sessions / presentations / discussions >/ debates > meetings aimed at making decisions about the running & >governance of openEHR, enabling future organisational improvement > > > professional and academic networking activities > some purely social activities. > >purely as an example of a nice location at which social and outdoor >activities can take place, Lake Bled in Slovenia has been suggested, of >course there are many other wonderful locations. I have heard many >requests for a conference over the last few years, so I wonder what the >reaction & interest of the community to this suggestion would be. > > > >- thomas beale > > > > > > >
