Hi Christian, Re question 3, I would like to suggest we look at the topic "How can FOSS applications share data with other existing healthcare applications?". This aim of the topic is that there already are well-established standards (HL7, LOINC, SNOMED, etc.) in use in healthcare systems and that to be able to integrate into existing healthcare institutions any new (FOSS) system must be able to use these standards. We started on this topic at the London OSHCA meeting, but much more work needs to be done. Your thoughts? Klaus ______________________________________
Klaus D Veil Research Fellow, University of Ballarat, Australia Lecturer, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia HL7.org (USA) Certified V2.4 & V2.5 Specialist Mob./Cell: +61 412 746 457 Skype ID: "KlausDVeil" Fax: +61 2 9475 0303 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____ From: openhealth@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Heller Sent: Sunday, 4 February 2007 12:26 To: Open Health Mailing List Subject: [openhealth] OSHCA Conference Topics Hello, I write to you as member of the Technical Sub Committee (TC) in preparation of the OSHCA conference. The TC is to determine conference topics and find speakers. Another aim is to find experts/ trainers for a couple of sessions on Open Source Software in Healthcare, that mainly Asian developers will take part in. So far, the conference agenda suggests that interoperability among applications could be the main underlying goal. It lists these topics: - Presentation of FOSS applications in healthcare - Review of current technologies in healthcare software - Exploration of standards for interoperability/ health communication - Discussing issues on FOSS in Healthcare My questions to the readers of this list are: 1 Which of the applications in this list would want to be presented? 2 What technologies should be compared (PostgreSQL vs. MySQL etc.)? 3 What standards should get introduced? 4 Who would give a talk related to an issue in healthcare software? There seems to be serious interest in Asia to learn from our projects, and to participate in the development/ enhance our applications. Ideally, OSHCA conferences will one day be something that nobody in the domain wants to miss. But until then, we have to give it our particular support and make it something worth visiting. This is the second trial to get this thing (OSHCA) going. It needs our collaboration. So please share your thoughts with us! Thanks, Christian [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
