tim, It will be very interesting to hear what tangible initiatives are in the works or was the nature of the meetings etc. mostly discussion. When Ed Hammond spoke at OSHCA 2001 in London he indicated that AMIA would look into actually funding some preliminary work on open source. Perhaps that is what the OS Working Group is about now??
My personal feeling is that while there is a great need to continue promoting and educating, open source in health desperately needs "scientifically" evaluated reference implementations to go with the with the marketing messages. It would be most helpful if some of the "traditional" medical informatics associations backed or otherwise supported studies of this nature. cheers, Joseph On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 00:54, Tim Cook wrote: > On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 19:29, Tim Churches wrote: > > MedInfo 2004 has come and gone, almost unnoticed on this list. Does anyone have > > any reports of FOSS events, activities or talks at MedInfo 2004? > > There were several that involved open source usage and development in > various ways. Some of the more direct events were reported here: > http://www.linuxmednews.com/ > & here:http://www.peter-murray.net/medinfo2004/day4.htm > > More are coming but time to do this is of course always an issue. > > I also had an opportunity to sit down with Dr. Ted Shortliffe > (http://www.medinfo2004.org/program/info.asp#organizing) and Dr. Ed > Hammond ( http://www.amia.org/about/taskforces/taskforces.html scroll to > the bottom) in two brief sessions. More on these and their views on > open source in a few days. > > Maybe Pat Evans can discuss the workshops he participated in as well? > > Cheers, > Tim > > > > > > We have ordered > > the complete set of audio files (in MP3 format on a CD-ROM - great idea) but it > > will > > be weeks before it arrives (and months before I have listened to them). > > > > A soon-to-be-formed open source working group of HISA (Health Informatics Society > > of Australia) will be organising one or more events at and/or surrounding MedInfo > > 2007 in Brisbane, Australia. > > > > Any Aussies interested in joining a HISA open source group should contact me. > > > > Tim C > > > >
