Education & Training

Information about 'open source' and health IT educational and training programs, organizations, conferences, seminars, courses, software tools, web portals, and more.

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Open Hardware Summit

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
September 27, 2012 (All day)
Location: 
Eyebeam Art & Technology Center New York City, NY
United States

The Open Hardware Summit is the world’s first comprehensive conference on open hardware, a venue to discuss and draw attention to the rapidly growing open source hardware movement. Speakers include world renowned leaders from industry, academia, and the DIY community. Read More »

Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI) 2012

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 22, 2012 (All day) - October 25, 2012 (All day)
Location: 
Crowne Plaza Beijing Sun Palace Beijing
China

Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI) is a regional member of International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). At present, APAMI has 18 country and regional members. The APAMI conference is held every 3 years. The 7th APAMI Conference will be held on 22-25 Oct, 2012 at Beijing. Read More »

Latin OSGis Conference 2012

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
November 19, 2012 (All day) - November 20, 2012 (All day)
Location: 
Guayaquil
Ecuador

First Latin American Congress of Free and Open Source GIS - 2012

Free and Open Source Tools and Applications are rapidly increasing in number and quality. Many and different actors are involved in such a kind of process: large and small companies, professional practitioners, public agencies, universities, research centers but also simple map lovers. Read More »

Mirth Connect 3.0 Beta Webinar & Demo

Details
When: 
January 12, 2013 (All day) - March 31, 2013 (All day)
Sponsor: 
Mirth Corporation

This video webinar demonstrates some of the new features in Mirth Connect 3.0. The webinar and demo is performed using Mirth Connect 3.0 Beta 1. To try out a preview version of Mirth Connect 3.0, you can download the beta release from the downloads section of the Mirth website.

 

GlobusWorld 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
April 16, 2013 (All day) - April 18, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Argonne National Laboratory Lemont (Chicago), IL 60439
United States

GlobusWORLD 2013 will be held April 16-18, 2013 at Argonne National Laboratory. The GlobusWORLD conference series is the leading annual event for Globus users, developers and resource providers. Read More »

IHE World Summit

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
April 16, 2013 (All day) - April 18, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Haliç Congress Center Istanbul
Turkey

The IHE International World Summit is intended for everybody who is interested in IHE [Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise] and interoperability in Health IT.

This year the IHE International World Summit will be held in parallel to the IHE Europe Connectathon, which main purpose is testing the interoperability and connectivity of Health IT systems. Participants in the IHE International World Summit also have the opportunity to visit the IHE Europe Connectathon. Read More »

TEDMed 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Open Source Event
Date: 
April 16, 2013 (All day) - April 19, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Washington, DC
United States

TEDMED 2013 will gather 1,500 adventurous thinkers and doers, from 300 medical and nonmedical disciplines, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. Read More »

eHealth Initiative's 2nd Annual National Forum on Data and Analytics in Healthcare

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 1, 2013 (All day) - August 2, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center in the Washington, DC
United States

eHealth Initiative's 2nd Annual National Forum on Data and Analytics in Healthcare will occur August 1-2, 2013 at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center in the Washington, DC area and will bring together providers, payors, researchers, clinicians, and industry leaders focused on the use of analytics to improve clinical, financial and administrative decisions at critical points in the healthcare system. This two-day event will feature a series of brief case studies and interactive multi-stakeholder panels on integrating different systems and transforming data into actionable healthcare intelligence. This conference will provide detailed and practical instruction on how to effectively manage and use data across healthcare, research, and surveillance. Read More »

Wikimania 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 7, 2013 (All day) - August 11, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong
Hong Kong S.A.R., China

Wikimania is the annual international conference of the Wikimedia movement. It's organized by a different local team each year. In 2013 the conference is taking place in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Wikimania allows the community and the general public to learn about and share their experiences with free knowledge initiatives all over the world.

Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong is the ninth annual international conference centred around the Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikinews, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiversity and others). The conference lets Wikimedians from different parts of the world meet and mingle, share experience with each other, and spark new collaborations. Wikimania is also a venue for Wikimedia to meet the educational and cultural sectors to discuss further cooperation, and showcase the latest developments in wiki technology and free culture to the general public.

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Drupal Government Days North America Conference

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 14, 2013 (All day) - August 15, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
NIH Bethesda, MD
United States

Welcome to the annual Drupal Government Days North America conference. This FREE 2-day event is open to the public. This year, Drupal4Gov is excited to be co-planning with Mil-OSS and we are looking forward to being at the excellent NIH facilities in Bethesda, MD, August 14-15. At this FREE 2-day event, we will have training, Drupal ladder sessions, and some really amazing keynotes. Read More »

DoD/VA EHR Integration and Interoperability

Event Details
Type: 
Open Education Event
Date: 
September 16, 2013 (All day) - September 18, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Arlington, VA
United States

The Defense Department's (DoD) medical staff have their AHLTA system and the Veterans Health Administration have VistA. For the past few years the two departments have grappled and spent billions to clarify the use of these legacy systems. Read More »

Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
September 17, 2013 (All day) - September 18, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
The International Conference Centre of Geneva (ICCG) Geneva
Switzerland

The Open Knowledge Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2013 Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) will take place in Geneva, Switzerland on 17th -18th September. The theme of this year’s edition will be Open Data – Broad, Deep, Connected.

The world’s leading open data and open knowledge event, OKCon is the latest in an annual series run since 2005. Last year’s installment in Helsinki had more than 1000 participants from over 50 countries and was the largest event of its kind to date. Previous speakers have included inventor of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Hans Rosling of Gapminder, Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive, and Ellen Miller of the Sunlight Foundation. Read More »

The 5th Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) Conference

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
September 18, 2013 (All day) - September 20, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Radisson Blu Latvia Riga
Latvia

The 5th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) is to be held this year in Riga, Latvia. The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is a trade association that was established in 2008 in order to represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines. This mission will be carried out through exchanging information, setting standards, advancing models, advocacy, education, and the promotion of innovation.

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LinuxCon Europe 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 21, 2013 (All day) - October 23, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh
United Kingdom

LinuxCon Europe is the place to learn from the best and the brightest, delivering content from the leading maintainers, developers and project leads in the Linux community and from around the world. There's simply no other event in Europe where developers, sys admins, architects and all types and levels of technical talent gather together under one roof for education, collaboration and problem-solving to further the Linux platform.  Read More »

Open Source Hospital Information Systems Development Workshop

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 21, 2013 (All day) - October 25, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
United Nations University International Institute for Global Health Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

The Open Source Hospital Information Systems Development Workshop will be held from 21 to 25 October 2013 at the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health. The 5-day programme will consist of lectures, intensive discussion sessions, hands-on programming session and site visits. The language of instruction for the workshop is English.

The main purpose of the workshop is to equip healthcare professionals working in a hospital information system environment with a fundamental knowledge of the concepts and components of open source hospital information systems. Read More »