OSHCA 2003 Geneva

Fourth Annual Open Source Health Care Alliance Meeting
Place: University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland
Date: December 7 -9, 2003

Presentations and Participation

Interest in the open source model and its rate of adoption has gained significant global momentum in 2003. The Open Source Health Care Alliance (OSHCA) is the pioneering driving force for this collaborative, peer review approach to software development and dissemination in the health sector.

OSHCA held its fourth annual annual conference on December 7-9, 2003, in Geneva, Switzerland. The host was the University Hospital of Geneva, home of Health on the Net (HON). The conference was coordinated with two other important events: MEDNET2003, and the World Summit on the Information Society, Platform on ICT Development.

The three day conference consisted of presentations, and workshops on a variety of issues relating to the promotion, use and adoption of open source software and methods in health.

Speakers and Abstracts

Conference Presentations

• WSIS/ICT4D slide show at CERN booth
• Presentation by Henning Mueller on medGIFT - Using the GNU Image Finding Tool for medical image retrieval
• Presentation by Vincenzo della Mea on Teaching Medical Informatics to medical students using open source software
• Presentations by Philippe Ameline:
  Odyssee (abstract)
  Odyssee (part 1 - concepts and description)
  Odyssee (part 2 - economic models)