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Re: Live from the AMIA conference in Wash. D.C.
by I. Valdes on Monday November 05, @09:06PM
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| Sunday night found me having dinner with Brian Bray of Minoru Development Corp. and Dan Johnson at a local Indian food restaurant. Brian Bray was new to me, but I had met Dan at last year's meeting. Brian is quite plugged in to the European medical open source scene and is working full time in France. In fact, he was having some 'reverse culture shock' since he had not been in the US for 2 years. Brian formerly worked for Microsoft after the company he worked for was purchased by MS. He left in 1995 mostly due to an un-welcome requirement of moving to Redmond. His insights on Microsoft were interesting and informative.
We meandered back to the hotel after dinner, caught up with Tim Cook and found ourselves going out to dinner again to an Afghan restaurant which we considered timely. Mike Bainbridge, Mike Gnassi, Brian Bray, Tim Cook and Shiela Teasdale were in attendance. The alcohol flowed freely and we had a rollicking good time discussing all things geeky in medicine.
Monday was a busy day with the panel discussion beginning at 10:30 am in the Coolidge room. The room was full with a small over flow crowd standing in the back. Dan Johnson moderated and I started off presenting the Linux Medical News award to Tim Cook. Brian Bray followed with a presentation on the Spirit project as well as the PICNIC project which is 'to prepare regional health care providers to implement the next generation, secure, user-friendly, health care networks and to make the European market for telematics health care services less fragmented.' Tim Cook and Mike Bainbridge follwed. Mike works for the British e-health company Torex and his presentation discussed the promise of open source for the national health system in Britain.
Finally, Derrick Jones, a marketing representative from RedHat discussed his perspectives on medical open source.
The floor was opened up for questions, one of which was how to keep big fish from hijacking code from small fish once you have open sourced. (Brian Bray's answer: many, many open source authors and foundations that would be interested in defending your rights.)
It seemed to be a friendly crowd, with most staying the full 2.5 hours so the interest seemed to be there. Afterwards several people who I know only by e-mail introduced themselves which was fun. It was unknown how much preaching to the choir was being done which would have been an interesting exercise to have a show of hands. Perhaps next year.
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