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

[Michael Dexter]

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.

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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!