Sessions at OSCON 2011 about Healthcare

Wednesday 27th July 2011

• popHealth – Open Source Population Health Reporting

  by Andy Gregorowicz

  popHealth is an open source tool that allows healthcare providers to calculate quality measures. A quality measure is a calculation of the number of individuals in a population that meet a specific standard of care. This ONC sponsored effort integrates with electronic health record systems using standards based patient summary documents to calculate and report on quality measures.

  • Healthcare

  At 11:30am to 12:10pm, Wednesday 27th July

  In F151, Oregon Convention Center

• A Study and Report on Open Source Health Information Technology Systems

  by Jason Goldwater and Alison Muckle

  The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) commissioned a Study and Report on Open Source Health Information Technology (health IT) as part of its obligation under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH). This represented the first time the Federal Government has ever invested resources into a study of open source EHRs

  • Healthcare
  • Open Source

  At 1:40pm to 2:20pm, Wednesday 27th July

  In F151, Oregon Convention Center

• Open Data & Open Source in Advancing Personalized Medicine

  by Charlie Quinn

  Case study in using open data and open source systems to enable research in personalized medicine. Will show how we leverage publicly available data along with clinical and experimental data from collaborators in 5 different countries to advance disease detection and personalized medicine.

  • Healthcare
  • Open Data

  At 4:10pm to 4:50pm, Wednesday 27th July

  In F151, Oregon Convention Center

• Open Source XML Databases in Healthcare

  by Andrzej Taramina

  This presentation will review the benefits and challenges of using an open source XML database in Healthcare applications. Specific focus will be on the use of HL7 3.0 CDA XML formats for patient records and on the use of the eXist open source XML database and XQuery in the management, presentation, analysis and integration of medical data from existing systems.

  • Healthcare
  • Open Source
  • XML Databases

  At 5:00pm to 5:40pm, Wednesday 27th July

  In F151, Oregon Convention Center

Thursday 28th July 2011

• Introducing the Health Internet

  by Fred Trotter

  Open Source software will power a new Internet layer, the Health Internet, which will finally make healthcare data liquid. The Health Internet will finally change healthcare the same way the Internet changed everything else; better, faster, cheaper.

  • Healthcare
  • Open Source

  At 9:15am to 9:20am, Thursday 28th July

  In Portland Ballroom, Oregon Convention Center

  Coverage video

• DIY Clinical Trials (Or: How to Guinea Pig Your Way to Scientific Truth and Better Health)

  by Greg Biggers and Raymond McCauley

  How one person’s desire to know if his vitamins really worked became a set of tools for doing open, crowd-sourced health experiments. By combining data and analysis from engaged individuals, we can answer big questions traditionally asked exclusively by pharma companies and research institutions. And for less than 1/1000 of the cost.

  • Clinical Trials
  • Healthcare

  At 10:40am to 11:20am, Thursday 28th July

  In D136, Oregon Convention Center

• The Implications of Open Source Technologies in Safety-critical Medical Device Platforms

  by Shahid N. Shah

  Most medical devices today use proprietary/custom software platforms (operating systems, messaging framework, alarms, etc.). This talk will present the Shahid's recent work using FOSS to build safety-critical medical devices and the challenges associated with such solutions. Shahid will present architectures considered, the benefits and detriments, and findings of real-world FOSS implementations.

  • Healthcare
  • Open Source

  At 11:30am to 12:10pm, Thursday 28th July

  In F151, Oregon Convention Center

• Collaboration - An Emerging Trend in the Healthcare Open Source Model

  by Mark Dachille, Vickie Hoffman and Thomas Jones

  At the 2010 OSCON, Roberts-Hoffman Software, Inc.(RHS) selected Tolven's open source framework to develop a hospital electronic health record plug-in. RHS will focus on the emerging trend for vendors to collaborate in an open source model to address the many challenges of healthcare. RHS will share collaborating with Tolven and Lexicomp to meet governmental healthare regulations.

  • Healthcare
  • Open Source

  At 4:10pm to 4:50pm, Thursday 28th July

  In F151, Oregon Convention Center

• The Direct Project In A Box

  by Vaibhav Bhandari and Umesh Madan

  Do you want to enable your doctor to send your health information through an e-mail in secure way? Well, the Direct Project enables better patient care, and reduces cost of Healthcare by providing a standard and simple mechanism to share Healthcare information between providers, organizations and consumers. The project is an exemplary collaboration of public and private sector.

  • Healthcare

  At 5:00pm to 5:40pm, Thursday 28th July

  In F151, Oregon Convention Center

  Coverage slide deck