Health care at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention — Call for Proposals is open

The O’Reilly Open Source Convention
is offering a health care track for the second year in a row. We had
a wonderful health care track last year (summarized in our

report to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation;
I’ll also post some links to videos, interviews, and blogs at the end
of this article), and we’re planning to build on our coverage of last
year’s topics as well as add some topics that got short shrift last
year.

Topics that didn’t receive as much coverage last year as (I think)
they deserved, and that we hope to feature this year, include:

• Roles of standards in health record formats, and weaknesses that need
  to be addressed

• Communication with devices (ranging from ordinary cell phones to
  specialized medical devices) and their use to improve care

• Use of electronic records and clinical decision support
  outside the United States

Important topics that we covered last year and whose developments we
should continue to follow include:

• The use of electronically collected data for research and
  evidence-based medicine

• How to deploy electronic health records (particularly open source) in
  clinical settings

• Secure health record exchange through CONNECT and the Direct Project

• Programming electronic records, including web APIs, in order to add,
  extract, and perform calculations on data

• Security, identity management, and patient control over records

Please share this article with any appropriate forums or individuals
and let them know about the conference’s

Call for Proposals.

A partial list follows of podcasts, videos, and other content related
to last year’s conference.

• 
  From Apache to Health and Human Services:
  Apache co-founder Brian Behlendorf discusses the CONNECT health data project
  (podcast)

• 
  Open source and the VA’s health transformation:
  Joseph Dal Molin on how the VistA system is changing health services
  (podcast)

• 
  Giving patient data meaningful use:
  NHIN Direct’s Arien Malec on open community and data exchange standards
  (podcast)

• 
  Open source and health care already have a history:
  Fred Trotter on how open source and health IT are working together
  (podcast)

• 
  Day one of the health care IT track at O’Reilly’s Open Source convention

• 
  VistA scenarios, and other controversies at the Open Source health care track

• 
  Wrap-up of the health care IT track at O’Reilly’s Open Source convention

• 
  NHIN Direct and CONNECT at the OSCON 2010 Healthcare Track
  
  (video)

• 
  David Riley, “Open Source’s Role in CONNECTing the Public
  and Private…” (video of talk)

• 
  Arien Malec, “NHIN Direct: An Open Government Health IT
  Collaboration” (video of talk)

• 
  Thomas Jones, “Leveraging Open Source Software to Assure
  Privacy of Health Information” (video of talk)

• 
  Nagesh Bashyam, “Using Open Source
  Technologies to Deliver a Healthcare…” (video of talk)

• 
  KS Bhaskar, Ben Mehling & David Whiles,
  “Introduction to Open Source VistA EHR” (video of talk)

• 
  Roni Zeiger, “Google Health: Connecting
  Mobile Patients” (video of talk)

• 
  Andrew Hart, “Distributed, Modular Grid
  Software for Management and…” (video of talk)

• 
  Carl Leitner, “Human Resources Information
  Systems, HRIS for Health…” (video of talk)

• 
  Phillip Longman, “The VA and VistA: A Role Model for Radical Improvement of Health…” (video of talk)

• 
  Vaibhav Bhandari, “Programming HealthCare
  Silos” (video of talk)

• 
  Deborah Bryant, “Open Source Is Making a
  Difference in Health Information Technology” (video of talk)

• 
  Fred Trotter, “Health of the
  Source” (video of talk)

• 
  Sam Faus, “The Project HealthDesign Common
  Platform: Enabling Innovative Uses…” (video of talk)

• 
  Part IV: Sam Faus, Creator Common Platform, Project Health
  Design, OSCON… (video of talk)

• 
  Teddy Bachour, “Advancing
  Interoperability, Patient Safety, and Efficiency…” (video of talk)