Today, I met with a tremendous number of patient safety advocates at IHI. My work with Cautious Patient Foundation centers around patient safety. But I have, up until now, not met very many Patient Safety advocates in person. That all changed today. I was introduced to forty of them at once. Frankly, it was heart-wrenching. […]
Category: Health IT Conferences
Health of the Source at OSCON
Hi, OSCON has just published my health of the source talk from OSCON 2010! My slides got a little mixed up, so my delivery is a little scattered, but I hit all of the points I wanted to, just in the wrong order… […]
Halamka on Open Source Healthcare
John Halamka is a pretty important blogger and policy maker. He is a fan of Open Source and has been positive about it for years. He even let me write a guest post on his blog about it. John Williams sent me a link for the recorded audio and slides of his recent talk at […]
Open Source at HIMSS 2010
Hey, I wanted to create a post for those interested in Open Source at HIMSS. I am out of the country, (Finland is so much warmer today at 0 deg Celsius) , so I cannot make it. So far I know that Alesha Adamson (MOSS) and Skip McGaughey (OHT) are speaking at the DSS educational […]
Open Source Health Software Conference
So I have two small news items. First, I am renaming the yearly Houston Open Source Conference from fosshealth to OSHealthCon, which just stands for Open Source Health Software Conference. Why the name change? Well, it is caused by the need for me to distance myself from the term “free”. I know what “free” means […]