[PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] Announcement: February PLUG Talk: Open Source Medical Informatics

[Clinton .]

According to a recent RAND Corp. study, the efficiency gains hoped for with
EMRs have been stifled due to the incompatibilities between different
systems.
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/health-care/study-still-waiting-efficiency-gains-electronic-medical-records

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Michael Dexter <dexter at ambidexter.com>wrote:

> Portland Linux/Unix Group Meeting Announcement
>
> Who: Diane Petersen
> What: Medical Informatics
> Where: PSU, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Level)
> When: Thursday, February 7th, 2013 at 7pm
> Why: The pursuit of liberating technologies.
>
> See location H-10 on the PSU map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg
>
>
> Historically, implementation of electronic health records in medical
> offices have been problematic. Specifically, poor implementation of
> these products is the leading cause of failure of acceptance of EHRs in
> these offices. Implementation of EHRs in the small physician office
> remains poorly documented and this contributes to this failure rate. To
> address this need, OEMR (The OpenEMR Non-Profit) developed an internship
> experience with the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical
> Epidemiology at Oregon Health and Science University to develop a road
> map for converting a small physician's office that is still using paper
> records to OpenEMR, an open source electronic health record, while using
> open source tools to implement and document the transformation.
> Documentation was made public on the OEMR wiki (at
> http://www.oemr.org/wiki/Going_From_Paper_to_Electronic) as a template
> for future implementations. This presentation is an overview of the
> documentation completed for the wiki. There are many paths to
> implementation, but the destination is meaningful use of the OpenEMR
> system.
>
> Special Thanks: PLUG regular Keith Lofstrom was instrumental to the
> success of this project, not to mention Dr. Sam Bowen, MD in North
> Carolina and PLUG speaker Tony McCormick.
>
> Diane Petersen is an emerging clinical informaticist, drawing from her
> formal education in clinical informatics and her extensive experience as
> a clinical pharmacist in a variety of settings. Having completed an
> internship leading and documenting the implementation of OpenEMR, an
> open source ambulatory electronic health record and practice management
> software application, Diane is in her last term of the Masters of
> Biomedical Informatics program at Oregon Health and Science University.
> She plans to apply her background and knowledge contributing to the
> improvement of managing healthcare data, and ultimately the improvement
> of patient care and outcomes.
>
> Calagator Page: http://calagator.org/events/1250463271
> PLUG page with information about all PLUG events: http://pdxLinux.org/
>
> Agenda:
>
> 7:00 - 7:30 Announcements
> 7:30 - 8:30 Presentation and Questions
> 9:00 - ... Refreshments
>
> The Lucky Lab Northwest Beer Hall
> 1945 NW Quimby
> Portland, Oregon
>
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>
> Michael Dexter
> PLUG Volunteer
>
> See you there!
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