The positive response to Health Informatics courses moving online reinforces the decision made by the University of Auckland.  “The flare of energy and enthusiasm has been wonderful,” says Professor Jim Warren, Chair in Health Informatics and Chief Scientist for the National Institute for Health Innovation (NIHI). 

 
Various vendors and professionals in the PACS community have been cluttering the market with their own interpretations of the definition of “Neutral” PACS.  Here is my straight-forward approach and hopefully bring a common understanding within the community as to what being vendor neutral really means and benefits when looking at solutions. 
 

HLTHINFO 730 Healthcare Decision Support Systems is a semester long course at The University of Auckland where we get hands on with implementation and evaluation of clinical decision support software.  We're having a face-to-face orientation lecture on Tuesday 20 July, 9-11am in 730.289 (main level, School of Poulation Health building, Tamaki Campus, Glen Innes).   Next week the semester officially begins, but it's not too late to join us if you're interested.  After this (optional, but recommended if possible) face-to-face session, the course is delivered in fully online mode with 12 week-long modules each supported by readings, voiced-over lecture, online discussion (via a private group here in the HIVE) and various other supporting activities (e.g., online tutorials of various software).  We use a handy free expert system shell that runs in a browser (e2glite) for prototyping, with a lot of emphasis on the craft of Knowledge Engineering.  We'd be del

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A FLOSS Policy For New Zealand

I think Open Source can be a viable option for especially clinician-led fit-for-purpose applications in healthcare. The following is taken from the New Zealand Open Source Society:
In previous posts we have looked at FLOSS policies of overseas governments, progress in uptake of FLOSS in Malaysia and also started a discussion about making Wellington the open source capital of New Zealand.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10...

The Clinton Bedogni Prize for Open Systems will be awarded for the first time in 2010 to the New Zealand individual (whether from academia or industry) who has made the greatest contribution to the field of Open Systems in the past two years. The definition of Open Systems is broad and includes interoperable systems with standards-based and well documented framework of functionality and interfaces - not necessarily, but preferably, Free and Open Source.

Graeme Osborne, Peter Foley and Barbara Robson talked about the draft National Health IT Plan on National Radio this morning. You can listen to the interview here:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/