Hello,
I just wanted to remind everyone of the DOHCS portion
of the SCALE conference running this weekend. This will be the second
year I have gone and presented my talk on "Whats going on in open
source healthcare". DOHCS is becoming a better and better conference.
It continues to feature the whos-who of the FOSS healthcare movement.
I want to pay particular attention in my talk to projects that will
not be featured elsewhere at the conference. So let me know if you are
doing something neat that you would like me to mention!
I also wanted to get some feedback on the idea of a
Houston-based FOSS healthcare conference. I know everyone needs to
know about these things about a year in advance, so I doubt that it
will be happening this year. DOHCS is successful in no small part
because it piggy backs on SCALE, which is a great conference by
itself. As far as I know there is nothing as impressive to piggy back
here in Houston. I had thought of corrdinating a WorldVistA community
meeting in Houston with a more general FOSS healthcare conference. I
have recieved pretty good feedback from the VistA community members I
have mentioned this too, and I wanted to see what everyone else
thought.
More generally, I want to know what would make a good FOSS healthcare
conference.
If you have been to DOHCS in the past, tell me what you liked about it?
If you are not going this year what keeps you from going?
At this point I can say that DOHCS has become the central US-based
conference for FOSS healthcare (in large part due to David Uhlmans
tireless efforts... thanks for that!), given that the attendance
(which continues to grow) is pretty dissappointing to me. It seems to
me that we should see hundreds of out-of-towners coming to a
conference like DOHCS.
I know this community is based all over the world and all across the
US. My question is: what makes it worthwhile to get on a plane, spend
a bunch of money on conference tickets and lodging to go to a FOSS
healthcare conference?
Regards,
--
Fred Trotter
http://www.fredtrotter.com
