Posts Tagged ‘Health Informatics’

Playing with pills: computer game to train nursing students on drug calculation

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

A computer game was developed at the University of Stavanger, Norway to help nursing students having difficulty passing exams on drug calculation.

NetOps, the University’s unit for web-based studies is testing a computer game to aid in learning.

“Often termed “serious gaming”, the idea is to make learning easier and more fun by using methodology from computer games. Project leader Petter Mordt points out that there are many ways of learning.”

Read more at: Playing with pills (http://www.uis.no/frontpage/article26439-50.html)

FOSS4Health is current theme of the InWent Capacity Building Germany Alumni Newsletter and there’s an article on me :)

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

Free and Open Source in Healthcare is the main theme of the current InWent Alumni Newsletter (http://www.inwent.org/alumni) where the portal (http://foss-for-health.org/) and 2 PANACeA / IOSN members Alvin Marcelo and Ariel Betan (thats me :) ) are currently featured in their articles. PANACeA and IOSN were mentioned in the article on Ariel Betan who was introduced/featured from the main website of InWent (http://www.inwent.org/index.php.en)

EveryDesk! Linux desktop designed for healthcare

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Carlo Daffara (http://carlodaffara.conecta.it/) the author of FLOSSMETRICS/OpenTTT which was adopted by the International Open Source Network (IOSN) ASEAN+3 and InWEnt Capacity Building International of Germany in their fosstoolkit project (includes a section on FOSS in healthcare) has come up with a Linux desktop named EveryDesk!

Read the rest of the article at: http://carlodaffara.conecta.it/?p=435

Read also Some EveryDesk Use Cases which includes a use case for healthcare among others.

Announcement: 3rd SEMINAR ON HEALTH INFORMATICS

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

From the National Telehealth Center

Date: Saturday, June 26, 2010
Time: 7:00am – 5:00pm
Location: College of Dentistry Auditorium, University of the Philippines Manila
Street: Pedro Gil St. Cor. Taft Avenue,
City/Town: Manila, Philippines

Coming from the widely successful first (April 8) and second (May 21) Seminars on Health Informatics, the UP Manila National Telehealth Center is inviting more health and IT professionals and students to participate in the third offering at the UP College of Dentistry Auditorium on June 26th, 2010.

This third seminar aims to offer the same content as the first but with additional talks by professionals working in health IT. It also promises to provide participants with concrete action items that they can pursue to further sharpen their knowledge and skills in health informatics.
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First IHI (International Health Informatics) Conference to Explore Medical Informatics

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

From: http://membernet.acm.org/#IHI-2010

ACM is proud to sponsor a new conference, whose goal is to become the premier community forum for health informatics researchers and practitioners. The ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2010) will focus on the application of computing principles and technology to address problems in healthcare, public health, the delivery of healthcare services, and consumer health, as well as topics related to social and ethical issues. Technical contributions, including papers and demonstration proposals, are due on June 4. For submission instructions and a complete list of possible topics, please visit the Call for Papers on the conference web site. IHI 2010 takes place November 11 to 12 in Washington, DC.

For more details visit: http://ihi2010.sighi.org/

Session on FLOSS in health care (FLOSS-HC) being organized at the Open World Forum

Friday, April 30th, 2010

The Open World Forum (OWF) is the new global summit on Free/Open Source. On September 30 and October 1 2010, it will bring together in Paris decisions-makers from across the world to discuss the technological, business and social impact of open technologies, and to cross-fertilize initiatives in these areas.

A session on FLOSS in health care (FLOSS-HC): How to foster community building is being organized by Thomas Karopka and Alvin Marcelo.

Those interested may register at the wiki.

Visit the Open World Forum wiki for more details.

Children hospitals saving money by using open source

Monday, April 26th, 2010

From: Open Source Observatory & Repository Europe
[http://www.osor.eu]
http://www.osor.eu/news/it-children-hospitals-saving-money-by-using-open-source

by Gijs Hillenius — published on Apr 21, 2010
— filed under: [T] Deployments and Migrations, [GL] Italy

Italian children hospitals are saving money by using the ‘Smart Inclusion project’ using open source technology and offering access to for instance medical data and e-learning applications. According to a statement from the Ministry for Public Administration and Innovation, hospitals can save about 1000 Euro per PC and about 500 per thin client.

The project uses the Linux open source operating system.
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Open-Source Data Network for Medical Research

Monday, April 26th, 2010

From: iHealthBeat
http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2010/4/13/new-technologies-spur-changes-in-health-care-research-delivery.aspx

New Technologies Spur Changes in Health Care Research, Delivery

Wall Street Journal recently featured several articles on new trends in electronic health tools. One of the articles discussed “a new open-source collaborative effort … aiming to advance medical research by allowing scientists to share disease data and models ..”

Open-Source Data Network for Medical Research

A new open-source collaborative effort called Sage Commons aims to advance medical research by allowing scientists to share disease data and models, the Wall Street Journal reports. Sage Bionetworks launched the project last year.
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CSIR open-source project for TB democratises research

Monday, April 26th, 2010

From: Business Line
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/04/13/stories/2010041353180200.htm

The exercise is to cut short research time and work towards effective medicines to treat TB, which accounts for about 1,000 deaths a day in India.

…the OSDD initiative has made TB-related research available to any researcher across the world…
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Scientists map TB genome using Open Source Model soon to be available

Monday, April 26th, 2010

From: The Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Scientists-map-TB-genome/articleshow/5784651.cms


“The TB gene map, developed under the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) initiative of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will be available in the public domain for drug makers.”


“This marks the beginning of the efforts of C2D to align R&D with public health and to use the full potential of the open source model for the development of medical technologies and drug discovery for neglected diseases,” Samir Brahmachari, Director General, CSIR said.

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