Christian Heller wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>I have the honour of informing you that we've held our first OSHCA
>committee meeting yesterday. The meeting minutes will follow later.
>One major discussion point was the upcoming OSHCA conference, whose
>tentative program, date and place are listed at:
>http://www.oshca.org/conference/conf2007/conf2007prog/view
>We have formed three sub committees with volunteers to prepare the
>conference:
>
>
The proposed theme is: Moving the FOSS Agenda for Health: Setting the
framework for Interoperability.
Maybe Setting Open Standards for Interoperability?? Our funders would
like to see such words in the Conference title.
These are our proposed current conference objectives:
1. Share and review current FOSS applications in healthcare
2. Share and review current technologies in healthcare software
3. Conceptualise and define OSHCA's role in managing FOSS
collaborative services
4. Explore the role of open standards in facilitating interoperable
health information communication
5. Promote OSHCA and its activities particularly to IT and healthcare
communities in Asia-Pacific region
6. Promote the advantages of using FOSS applications to managers of
healthcare facilities in public and private sectors in the
Asia-Pacific region.
There is further request from our funders to include a
"training/workshop" where (new) programmers from ASEAN+3 to learn from
experienced programmers on FOSS technologies????
>Organising Committee (OC):
>Molly Cheah (chair)
>Joseph Dal Molin
>Adrian Midgley
>
>
To add Wayne & Shaari.
Wayne Wilson (chair - technical committee). He's just agreed. Thanks Wayne.
Shaari Junid (chair - logistics committee). Just a short note on Shaari.
He's the President of the Malaysian Association of Environmental Health
(MAEH) . MAEH is an Associate member (NGO) of OSHCA. Shaari was also the
logistics chairman of the MCTC's Tobacco Control Conference 2006 which
took place in Dec2006. He is also the Kuala Lumpur City Hall's Area
Manager of Bukit Bintang, where the OSHCA Conference Venue Hotel is located.
The Chairperson of sub-committee should be a member of the main
organising committee
>Logistics Committee (LC):
>Shaari Junid (chair)
>Juliana Tang
>Jason Tan Boon Teck
>Nandalal Gunaratne
>
>Technical Committee (TC):
>Wayne Wilson (proposed chair, agreement pending)
>Christian Heller (chair, if Wayne declines)
>Katarzyna Heller
>Thomas Beale
>
>Ordinary OSHCA members and ALL readers of the OpenHealth mailing list
>are very much welcomed and asked to participate in the preparation of
>our all conference! If everybody does a little, it won't be that much.
>
>The sub committee chairs or -members will now contact this list in order
>to gain a broader auditorium, more helpers, and to sort out topics etc.
>
>Thanks,
>Christian
>
>
Molly
