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Ohio Linux Fest is calling for speaker and instructor submissions, including the medical track. Deadline is June 1, 2011 http://ohiolinux.org/

I have no association with this group. However, it seems to be a prime RFI for opensource projects to respond to.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is seeking to establish a Custodial Agent (CA) that will facilitate the establishment and operations of an Electronic Health Records (EHR) Open Source software development ecosystem and define the relationship between and interactions among developers, users, vendors and service providers.

The 2011 OpenClinica Global Conference will be held May 8-9 in Boston, Massachusetts. Join hundreds of your colleagues from industry, academic, and government organizations to learn about the OpenClinica open source clinical trials software.

Headlining this year’s conference is Ken Getz from the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development.

More information at www.OpenClinicaConference.org.

Wardwiki is a wiki to aid foundation doctors in the UK manage their ward work more effectively. In this way it complements other, more academic websites and wikis by giving more practical guidance.

As a lot of people have realized, OpenEMR’s interface looks like something that came out of a 60′s time capsule. A company, EHR Live, has updated the interface to provide a more visually appealing interface that makes OpenEMR marketable in today’s marketplace.

This new interface could change the immediate perception of the program and bring OpenEMR into the same arena as other big time proprietary software vendors with nicely done interfaces. The feature set of OpenEMR has been always fair, but you can’t sell a diamond if it looks like a piece of coal.

Hi all,

I’m pleased to announce the release of the Christmas Edition of
FreeDiams 0.5.2.

Announcement in English
Announcement in French

Lots of improvements where done on the interaction engine (update to
AFSSAPS 17/12/2010, cytochrome P450, Glycoprotein-P interactions
added, lots of corrections in the drugs database).

The bibliography related to interactions are available for some
(mainly all CYT450 and GPG interactions). We still need to work on
this feature.

A really awaited improvement is the management of plural forms in the
protocol (FreeDiams will replace the ‘(s)’ to the right plural form).

Merry Christmas to you all
–
Eric Maeker, MD (FR)

http://www.freemedforms.com/

http://www.ericmaeker.fr/

SCALE 9x, the 9th Annual Southern California Linux, is now open for registration. SCALE is a community run Linux and open-source conference base in Los Angeles. SCALE will co-host several community events this year, including: Fedora Activity Day, PostgreSQL Day Los Angeles, DevOps Day Los Angeles, and a FOSS Mentoring. What ever your interest in open-source SCALE will have something for you. Join us February 25-27, 2011 at the LAX Hilton in Los Angeles.

FreeDiams is a drug prescribing assistant that manages drug-drug interactions, patients allergies, intolerances and high quality printing. FreeDiams is a free and open source application, GPLv3.
FreeDiams can manage multiple drugs databases. Are available:

• USA: FDA
• France: AFSSAPS
• South Africa: SAEPI
• Canadian: HCDPD

The 0.5.0 version brings drugs interactions calculation on all available drugs databases (US, CA, FR and ZA). FreeDiams is available for MacOs, Windows and Linux (Debian, OpenSuse, Ubuntu, Fedora). Link to website.

DoceboLMS 4.0.2, open source e-learning platform written in PHP and MYSQL, is online, scope of this release is to integrate new web training scenario like social training and third party applications interfacement. Platform is used on major hospitals and pharma companies.