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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Games For Health Europe 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 28, 2013 (All day) - October 29, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Amsterdam
Netherlands

Games for Health reached Europe in 2011. The non-profit Games for Health Europe is the official sister conference of the Games for Health project in the U.S.  Their goal is to help bring serious gaming and healthcare together in order to contribute to more advanced healthcare across Europe. Read More »

EHI Live 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
November 5, 2013 (All day) - November 6, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
National Exhibition Centre Birmingham
United Kingdom

EHI Live 2013 will bring together popular features from previous shows and new meetings and activities. This year’s conference focuses on themes that are at the very centre of healthcare reforms in the UK with streams on The Big EPR Debate, health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s call for a paperless NHS by 2018, and the challenges of Dame Fiona Caldicott’s second review of information governance and information sharing.  Giving delegates the chance to discuss these issues with like-minded people makes EHI Live 2013 an unmissable event.

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10th Annual Open Education Conference

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
November 6, 2013 (All day) - November 8, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
The Canyons Resort Park City, UT
United States

For over a decade the focus of the open education community has been on creating and sharing open educational resources. We have largely succeeded in building out a vast, high quality open content infrastructure atop which a new generation of educational innovations are being built. As we celebrate the success of that work, the 10th annual Open Education 2013 Conference looks forward to the critical work of the next decade.

This year’s conference themes include:

  • Developing and deploying models that support the broad adoption and use of open educational resources
  • Leveraging the open content infrastructure to enable and reinvigorate efforts like prior learning assessment, alternative pathways to credentials, and informal and lifelong learning...

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Open Source Search Conference

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
November 6, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Westfields Marriott Chantilly, VA
United States

The Open Source Search Conference brings together leading technologists from both the government and commercial sector, focused on implementing strategies to incorporate open source search into their technology stack. There will be optional tutorials on the day before the conference, which will offer deep-dive technical content for engineers. High-level strategy and use-case sessions at the conference will be interesting for products owners and decision makers.

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AMIA 2013 Annual Symposium

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
November 16, 2013 (All day) - November 20, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Washington, DC
United States

The AMIA Annual Symposium is the leading scientific meeting for biomedical and health informatics research and practice. Biomedical and health informatics is the scientific discipline that seeks to develop and use information to improve health care, to assist biomedical research across the continuum from molecules to populations, and to empower practitioners and the public in their quest for better health for all. Read More »

The 1st AOU (Arab Open University) International Conference on Open Learning

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
November 25, 2013 (All day) - November 27, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Kuwait

1st AOU International Conference on Open Learning: Role, Challenges, and Aspirations explores the future tools, techniques, and the challenges associated to the development of effective educational systems. This international conference on 'open' and blended learning will bring together a range of academics, researchers, practitioners, and decision makers from different countries and institutions. The conference will be an excellent opportunity to discuss the new trends in open learning and technology and solutions to the challenges of open learning.

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FOSDEM 2014

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
February 1, 2014 (All day) - February 2, 2014 (All day)
Location: 
Brussels
Belgium


FOSDEM is a free event that offers open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over the world. It will be held at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Read More »

HIMSS 2014 Annual Conference

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
February 23, 2014 (All day) - February 27, 2014 (All day)
Location: 
Orlando, FL
United States

HIMSS 2014 Annual Conference & Exhibition planned topics will cover health IT careers, workforce development, clinical and business intelligence, consumer engagement, data warehousing, HIE, ICD-10, innovation, Meaningful Use, mobile health, nursing informatics, physicians’ IT, supply chain, privacy and security, project management/change management, and the usability and safety of health IT. More to come. Read More »

SPARC 2014 Open Access Meeting

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
March 3, 2014 (All day) - March 4, 2014 (All day)
Location: 
Intercontinental Hotel Kansas City, MO
United States

SPARC is pleased to announce that the 2014 Open Access Meeting theme will be "Convergence"

SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.  

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The Global Health & Innovation Conference

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
April 12, 2014 (All day) - April 13, 2014 (All day)
Location: 
Shubert Theater
247 College Street
Yale University, New Haven, CT
United States

The Global Health & Innovation Conference (#GHIC) is the world's leading and largest global health conference as well as the largest social entrepreneurship conference, with 2,200 professionals and students from all 50 states and more than 55 countries. This must-attend, thought-leading conference convenes leaders, changemakers, and participants from all sectors of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship.

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Red Hat Summit 2014

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
April 14, 2014 (All day) - April 17, 2014 (All day)
Location: 
Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
United States

Red Hat will hold its 10th annual Red Hat Summit at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from April 14-17, 2014. The Red Hat Summit brings together thought leaders and executives from across the technology industry to participate in keynotes and sessions on community, innovation, collaboration and customer success. This year's conference will feature a session on Red Hat technology in healthcare that will feature Dr. Seung Ki Mun from OSEHRA.

The session, which will be featured as a town hall meeting on Wednesday, April 16th, will also feature Don Frederick, Senior solution architect, Red Hat, Rob Barker, Director of Application Development at Cigna, and Brijesh Kalidindi, Senior IT manager, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan.

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Open Business Conference 2014

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
May 5, 2014 (All day) - May 6, 2014 (All day)
Location: 
San Francisco, CA
United States

Computerworld’s Open Business Conference is ground zero for learning from the experts, and networking with open source peers, developers and sponsors -- including sessions on the the following type of topics:

  • Building data-rich mobile services with open APIs to navigate the confusing labyrinth of cloud computing projects
  • How to decipher the data explosion
  • How to capitalize on the cutting edge technologies, including Cassandra, Hadoop, OpenStack and more
  • Ways to connect with the developers, users and companies behind technologies like HTML5 frameworks and more

10th International Conference on Open Source Systems 2014

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
May 6, 2014 (All day) - May 9, 2014 (All day)
Location: 
San Jose
Costa Rica

The 10th International Conference on Open Source Systems will be held in San Jose, Costa Rica. May 6-9, 2014. It is is the premier conference to present research results related to open source initiatives, extending beyond software to include Open innovation, Open access, Open data, Open standards, Open education, Open science, Open cloud, Open artworks, open hardware, Open government and more. Read More »

12th International Congress on Nursing Informatics (NI2014)

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
June 21, 2014 (All day) - June 25, 2014 (All day)
Location: 
Taipei
Taiwan

The 12th International Congress on Nursing Informatics (NI2014) will be held in Taipei, Taiwan in 2014. The aim of this congress is to provide a single, high-profile, internationally renowned forum for research in the theory and practice of nursing informatics. Over the years, the congress has been instrumental in the advancement of nursing informatics which has made a great stride toward the provision of an International discussion forum as evidenced by the number of successful meetings held so far. Read More »