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  FOSS Symposium, Houston Texas April 24th
Interesting Developments Posted by Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS on Saturday April 07, 2007 @ 02:51 PM
from the interesting-developments dept.
IBM's Eishay Smith, Enfold Systems Alan Runyan and a few others will be speaking at a one day symposium in Houston entitled 'Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Healthcare: Progress and Promise' This will be held at:
School of Health Information Sciences, UT-Houston
University Center Tower
7000 Fannin, 14th Floor
Tuesday, April 24th
Read on for the full agenda and registration info.

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Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Healthcare: Progress and Promise
School of Health Information Sciences, UT-Houston
University Center Tower
7000 Fannin, 14th Floor
Tuesday, April 24th
8 am - 3 pm
TO REGISTER: CONTACT CYNTHIA CASTRO
Cynthia.Castro@uth.tmc.edu or 713-500-3901

8:00 Registration
9:00 Welcome
Jack Smith, MD, PhD
School of Health Information Sciences
Dean

9:05 "Lowering the Barrier to a Decentralized NHIN Using the Open
Healthcare Framework"
Eishay Smith
Director Open Source
IBM

10:00 "The Microsoft of Medicine vs. The Google of Medicine"
Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS
Chief Technology Officer
Your Doctor Program, L.P.
Founder, Linux Medical News
Recipient: Inaugural 2006 International Medical Informatics
Association
Award for Open Source Software

10:45 "Content Management and the Experience of Plone"
Alan Runyan
President Enfold Systems
Plone and the Plone Foundation Founder

11:15 Lunch served for first fifty seminar registrants (SO CALL TO
REGISTER)

12:00-1:00 Luncheon speaker: Schull Institute Scholars Program
Introduction: William J Schull, PhD
Ashbell Smith Professor Emeritus
President, Schull Institute
"Toward FOSS Health Care Informatics Systems Integration in Latin America"
Jorge Raúl Rodríguez Yañez, MD
FOSS Developments Coordinator, Bioengineering Faculty,
National University of Entre
Rios, Paraná, Argentina
Founder and Executive Director, BioLinux Group, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Informatics Coordinator of Hospital General de Aguos Dr. Velez
Sarsfield, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Recipient: LIS Day 2006 Award, @LIS Society of Information, Europe

1:30-3:00 Roundtable: Approaches for Open Source for Translational
Research
Moderator: Kim Dunn, MD, PhD
Jack Smith, MD, PhD
Dean, School of Health Information Sciences
Director, Biomedical Informatics, CTSA, UT-Houston
Charles Hurmiz
St. Jude's Hospital
Lynn Vogel, Ph.D.
Chief Information Officer
MD Anderson




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