On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 20:48 +1100, Horst Herb wrote: > I would volunteer to organize it in Australia - sure, it's a long way from > anywhere else, but it can be damn nice, it's safe, and it can be very cheap > too once the flight has been paid.
Australia between August 2006 and February 2007 would in fact be personally convenient. As the location of the OpenEHR project which may provide the theoretical underpinning of the world's medical record systems, and the GNU project medical record which has plausible promise, and based on what I hear of rumour about the state of commercial closed source medical record software and the providing companies there, and the press reports of AUstralian federal and state governmental moves in the direction of FLOSS for public administration, an OSHCA conference there might be a useful focal point and be usefully situated to gatehr interest by those who could be involved. Another place of interest is British Columbia which I understand to have actual production FLOSS EHR in use in a small number of general practices, and is grappling with interesting problems over certification and the like whcih have historically been used partly to close markets to new or cash-poor entrants by commercial interests... -- Dr Adrian Midgley www.defoam.net
