[healthcare-wg] OSfA Healthcare Working Group - Next meeting (Thurs 12/17) plus prior minutes

[Anthony Gold]

Next meeting (call) Thursday (12/17) at 1 pm eastern: Bridge: 616-597-8000; Access Code: 817841#





Minutes from 12/3/09 call



Attendees:

Ben Mehling - Medsphere

Andy Oram - O'Reilly

Dr. Sylver Quevedo - Healthy Humans

Anthony Gold - Healthy Humans



Healthcare working group focus areas:



Agreement with the idea of a directory (with case studies) of open source software/solutions in healthcare:

*         Easily consumable by government personnel

*         Exemplify where it's been successfully "operationalized": risk management, procurement, deployment, contribution and support, etc.

*         Supported by collection of whitepapers (thanks to Fred Trotter for offering to help)



Thanks to Chris Hankin (Sun) for pointing out some of the existing work:

*         http://www.opensourceforamerica.org/case-studies/

*         In case you haven't seen it, the NHIN Connect website is http://www.connectopensource.org/display/Gateway/CONNECT+Community+Portal

*         Also, blogs posted this morning by Aneesh Chopra, Clay Shirky and Charles Jaffe on HIT are at  http://healthit.hhs.gov/blog/faca/index.php/2009/11/19/aneesh-chopra-reflects-on-progress-to-date-what-is-to-come/


Thanks to Ed Dodds (Conmergence.com) for directing us to the LinkedIn group on Open Healthcare: http://www.linkedin.com/groupInvitation?gid=3102&sharedKey=63B2164D6495



Also agreement for this working group to identify government regulatory problems (encumbrances) that we're running into in order to bring some visibility and perhaps resolution.



Suggestion made to identify within government agencies who are our allies so that we can develop a plan to best leverage those proponents.  Some groups identified such as: National Cancer Institute (RE: national case registry system), HHS, DoD, VA, etc.



Finally, a call to action to ALL healthcare working group participants: please put your bio (including photo) on our Wiki (and via this email distribution list) so that we can get to know one another.



Since all of us are so busy and attending the bi-weekly meeting doesn't fit into many of your open slots, we'll need to use our Wiki and this mailing group to collaborate.  So, we greatly appreciate any feedback as we drive this group forward.



Best,

Anthony


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