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EVENT

9:00-9:15

Welcome and Announcements

Nigel Bell of the NHS Information Authority will open the conference.

Joseph Dal Molin

A Tale of Two Cities

Dr. David Chan, Director Stonechurch Clinic, which is part of McMaster University Department of Family Medicine’s Primary Care Network. Dr. Chan is the developer of OSCAR, an open source system for family medicine that supports teaching, research, and delivery of care. The McMaster Primary Care Network is part of the Ontario Government’s Primary Care Reform initiative and MUFFIN/OSCAR has received government funding and accreditation for use in the initiative.

10:30-10:45

Break

10:45-12:00

Chair: Brian Bray, Minoru Development

Panel members:

• Andrew Ho
• Simion Pruna
• Rick Marshal
• Chris Richardson
• Yves Paindaveine
• Position statement from John Fox

The purpose of this panel is to discuss policies for health care organisations in the acquisition, integration, and use of open source software in medical environments.

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-13:30

Glyn Moodyis the author of "Rebel Code: Linux and the open source revolution", is based in London, and is a columnist for Computer Weekly - the most widely read UK computing journal.

Dr. Douglas Carnall

Introduction: Chairman, Dr Adrian Midgley

What happens if your supplier goes bust?
Mark Richards, Head of Information Systems, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford

Open source and complex knowledge bases, the OpenGALEN manifesto:
Dr Jeremy Rogers MRCGP, Clinical Research Fellow, University of Manchester

InControl: an Open Source Surveillance System for Hospital Acquired Infection,
Dr Ray Henry, Head of Informatics, PHLS in Wales

An Open Framework for OO Technology Transfer:
Julian Todd, IS/IT Manager, Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust

15:00-15:15

Break

The TK Family Practice Project
Dr. David Pepper

Chairman, Dr Adrian Midgley,

Introduction, Colin Smith, NHS Information Authority:

Topic: "Would an alternative market in supported, open source healthcare information systems benefit the NHS? If so, what should the following be doing":

1. individual Trusts and GPs
2. the IPU/NHS Information Authority
3. healthcare system developers

Speakers, plus:

Neil Spencer-Jones, independent consultant

Paul Cooper, IMS, hospital systems supplier

Primary care systems supplier (TBA)

Graham Folmer, Director, NHS Information Authority

LOINC

The OIO Project
Dr. Andrew Ho

The Black Sea TeleDiab Project
Dr. Simion Pruna

16:30-17:00

OSHCA has come a long way since its first meeting in Rome last year. There is a need to add a minimal formal structure to OSHCA so that it can provide a more effective role in the health care community. The meeting is open to anyone who supports the fundamental principles in the OSHCA charter. The following agenda is proposed for the business meeting:

• Membership, establishing formal membership
• Governance, elect board of directors
• Re-confirm guiding principles
• Next Meeting

18:00-

Social Event- Buffet and Cash Bar, The Post House

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PANEL: Open Source A Strategic Tool For Resource Constrained Countries:

Chairman: Bud P. Bruegger, Sistema

Speakers and Panel Members

Bob Mayes - Senior Health Informatics Specialist, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Global AIDS Program – Zimbabwe; Formerly, Director, Information Systems Group, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, HCFA

John Lindsay - British Computer Society Developing Countries Specialist Group. Reader in Information Systems Design, Kingston University (UK), where he specialises in strategic information systems, information science and information systems design.

Hamish Fraser - Harvard Medical School/MIT, Partners in Health, PING, the TB Web based EMR and the TeleMedMail program, Digital Nations?

Additional Panel Members

Cito Maramba, University of the Philippines Manila Health Sciences Center

IBM and Open Source
Michael Hoekstra

10:30-10:45

Break

VistA the U.S. Veteran's Hospital Administrations hospital information system is in the process of being ported to Sanchez’s open source distribution of MUMPS, GTM for Intel Linux. This presents a major opportunity for global collaboration to evolve and disseminate this complete, proven hospital information system.

K.S. Bhaskar, VP, Business Development, Platforms & Technologies
Sanchez Computer Associates, Inc

11:30-12:00

Open Source in AMIA

Ed Hammond, President, AMIA

12:00-13:00

LUNCH

13:00-13:30

Klaus Veil

SPIRIT is a pioneering project partially funded by the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme. Its goal is to accelerate the uptake of open source software and other resources to facilitate the implementation of economically viable and effective regional health care solutions and enable better citizen-centred care in Europe and around the world. The project team is currently in the process of identifying and classifying best practice open source software applications and components from both existing ongoing projects, and planned projects. Sources for software include government agencies, medical teaching institutes, and other health care providers.

The primary goal of the open meeting is to present work to date and future plans to get active feedback and participation from the open source health care community.