February 7th, 2008
News & Commentary
Open Source in the Health Care Industry
Talk about huge opportunity. The health care industry is always looking for new technology and has the money to spend. I’ve recently started working with one of America’s best, most well-known sleep doctors – building their web-presence and leading their online marketing. Getting involved really caught my interest about health care, care home technology, etc. I started lookin’ around the information super highway and found this:
The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) has announced plans to host an Open Source Health Care summit as part of their upcoming 2007 conference, SCALE 5x. The event will be held on February 9, 2007 at the Los Angeles Airport Westin Hotel. Here’s more:
The focus of this event will be on the use of open-source software in the health care industry. The goal of this event is to foster an awareness of the availability of open-source options to medical organizations, private practices, and hospitals.
Topics to be covered at this workshop include:
- Relevance of Open Source software and Open Standards for the Health Care industry.
- Integrating proprietary systems with Open Source software.
- Case studies of using Open Source software in care homes and health care environments.
- Open Source software in the private medical practice.
- Open Source software in regional health information organizations.
- Current and future growth of open source in health care.
- Birds of a Feather discussion sessions for IT, medical and business users in the medical space.
More information on the event can be found here: http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/
If you’re in the area and have free time, check it out.. it’s cheap and well worth it.
Another great company utilizing great care home technology can be found here: http://www.bettercaring.com. This company was a great resource for me (parents gettin’ old!)
Tags: opensource, health care, healthcare, technology, HIPPA
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