Hi all. The NHIN CONNECT project is hosting its second code-a-thon in Portland next week Thursday and Friday. For those not familiar with the project, it's a BSD-licensed reference gateway for the NHIN specifications for sharing of electronic healthcare records and data.
The announcement and registration: http://www.connectopensource.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=24510467 The draft agenda: http://www.connectopensource.org/display/CONNECTWIKI/Code-a-thon+Wiki+(Fall+2009) The CONNECT public community is just a few months old, and we've already seen substantive contributions to portability across new operating systems and J2EE servers. The code itself is in production use by a number of Fed agencies, providers, and healthcare exchanges. I realize this is late notice, but if any of you have an interest in this space and can make it to Portland next Thursday and Friday, you're welcome to attend (there is no attendance fee), as we have more room this time and a very generous partner (Oregon State University's Open Source Lab). Even if you don't have depth with the existing CONNECT code base, if you are a coder familiar with the terminology of the medical IT industry, with J2EE apps, and with Open Source, there's lots you can do to help, whether with the core code, or with adaptors (existing and to-be-written) to other Health IT software. Hope to see you there!
