[ossig] OSHCA Conference 2007

[Molly Cheah]

Colin Charles wrote:

>Jason Tan Boon Teck wrote:
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>>The conference will be held from May 8-11 at the Federal Hotel. 
>>Registrations starts today at 1500h and there will be a networking 
>>dinner session tonight.
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>sure looks like a semi-interesting lineup
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>are sessions recorded? i.e. video or audio? will they be available 
>freely, online?
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>if i were going, these sessions automatically spring to be pretty 
>interesting:
>* Legal issues impacting the use of open source software in health care 
>GK Ganesan Malaysia
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I just spoke to GK. Esentially whatever you have the freedom to do, you 
are responsible for outcomes

>* Hemotology Lab System: A Live Case Study Boh Heong Yap Malaysia
>(this is the kind of thing that should be pimped on the foss websites, 
>to ensure that people in m'sia know foss is being widely used)
>* A Computerized Data Visualization Tool for Medical Data Analysis: A 
>Case Study on Acute Stroke Chee Peng Lim Malaysia
>* Why Use Postgresql for your next database-driven application? (And 
>MySQL) Paolo Alexis Falcone (& Miguel Vega) Philippines
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>day 3 also has an interesting panel on the trends in healthcare 
>informatics. proprietary vs. foss, yes? :-)
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>why no mention of primacare? its a hallmark malaysian-created 
>application, that even won an award sometime back
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We've moved beyond.... the presentation is on the use of generic engine 
for non-programmers to add modules to PrimaCare.

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>>So, set aside the date in your calendar and apply for leave or ponteng.  :-)
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>with a lot of doctors around, i'm sure the latter will be pretty easy to 
>do, huh? instead of rm20 for a medical leave chit, its free :P
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Not many doctors really, about 20%

Don't forget Sahana the disaster management software from Sri Lanka. 
There are some exciting presentations from Africa too.

Molly