Dear all,
Calling all those who wish to participate or plan to attend the OSHCA
Conference 2007 from 8-11 May, please go to
http://mailman.oshca.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/participants to subscribe
to the list in order to receive updates and further information on the
conference.
Please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for enquiries or clarifications on
funding possibilities, registration requirements etc. Forms for
registration and travel cost estimates (for those requesting for
financial support) can be downloaded from the OSHCA web-site and the
Openhealth list. The programme flyer and more detailed programme should
be available to the participants list as well from next week, if not
earlier.
Please assist OSHCA to disseminate this information to other lists
deemed appropriate.
We also call on organisations to support this conference by sending
participants to the conference and to assist in providing financial
support to others.
Currently financial support comes from:
IDRC,
IOSN ASEAN+3
IOSN South Asia
InWEnt, Germany for capacity building in use of FOSS by Asian programmers
As a reminder, here's some information on the Conference.
> *Background*
>
> Open Source Health Care Alliance (OSHCA) had successfully provided a
> forum for individuals interested in applying open source strategy and
> principles to Health Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
> While OSHCA's roots are in North America and Europe its vision is the
> realization that “Free/Open Source Health Care Software will provide a
> viable and sustainable alternative in mainstream ICT worldwide. OSHCA
> believes that the greatest potential for positive impact on health
> outcomes and the greatest need lies in the developing world.
>
> This 4-day conference will therefore provide the meeting place for the
> members to define OSHCA's road map to move the FOSS Agenda for Health,
> including conceptualizing and defining OSHCA's role in managing FOSS
> collaboration. The conference will also provide an opportunity to
> share and provide updates on FOSS applications and technologies used
> in health care . During the conference, issues related to FOSS, open
> standards, interoperability and data exchange will also be discussed
> on. The conference will also have training sessions for new Asian
> programmers to learn FOSS concepts and health data interoperability,
> besides providing the opportunity to strengthen OSHCA's membership.
>
>
> *The benefits and outcome of this conference will be:*
>
> *
>
> Opportunity for establishing collaboration in the FOSS community
> in the deployment of FOSS health care applications in the
> developing countries
>
> *
>
> Opportunity for OSHCA to co-ordinate the interconnectivity among
> these systems with the goal of making them interoperable with
> the ability to exchange data as a specific response to the MDGs
>
> *
>
> Participants will be more knowledgeable of FOSS health care
> applications and technologies used in Health IT especially
> towards the use of open standards towards data sharing.
>
> *
>
> establish a community network of developing countries to
> participate in a global collaboration effort for the development
> and improvement of open source health care applications.
>
> *
>
> initiate & facilitate education, training and technology
> transfer on concepts and approaches to open standards
> implementation for health ICT's to establish interoperability
> between open source health ICTs and existing health ICT
> infrastructure– R&D to test interoperability, interchange of
> data and standards.
>
> *
>
> Training new developers in applying FOSS concepts , health care
> applications and health data interoperability
>
> *
>
> Strengthening OSHCA membership and developing the strategic
> goals of OSHCA in readiness for realizing OSHCA's role in
> managing FOSS collaborative services.
>
>
> *Target Audience*
>
>
> This conference targets interested open source Health ICT adopters and
> potential adopters, from developers to end-users, including senior
> management both from public and private sectors.
>
We look forward to seeing as many people as possible in Kuala Lumpur.
Molly,
on behalf of OSHCA Conference 2007 Organising Committee
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