Past Events

2020 International Conference on Disaster Medicine and Hurricane Resiliency

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Type: 
Conference
Date: 
March 26, 2020 (All day) - March 29, 2020 (All day)

The 2nd Annual CCDM International Conference on Disaster Medicine and Hurricane Resiliency will gather professionals and experts from around the world to share insights and expertise on preparing for and managing disasters, building disaster management capacity, and educating and training in the health professions. We are once again excited to collaborate on this event with Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and our regional partners in Sint Maarten and the Caribbean.

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2019 AIM Leadership in Action Conference

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Type: 
Conference
Date: 
December 10, 2019 (All day) - December 12, 2019 (All day)
Location: 
New Orleans, LA
United States

The AIM Leadership in Action Conference features leadership development and training to help you to set and meet immunization goals. The event is tailored to AIM members, immunization program staff in leadership roles, and partners. Learn to keep yourself and others passionately engaged in the work at hand even in troubled or difficult times. The Association of Immunization Managers (AIM) was created in 1999 to enable immunization managers to work together to effectively prevent and control vaccine-preventable diseases and improve immunization coverage in the United States and its territories. Read More »

Too Great a Thing to Leave Undone: Defense of Agriculture

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Type: 
Conference
Date: 
November 5, 2019 - 9:30am - 3:15pm

On November 5, 2019, the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense will convene a meeting, Too Great a Thing to Leave Undone: Defense of Agriculture, to inform its continuing assessment of the biological threat, specific vulnerabilities, and overwhelming consequences to agricultural producers. In its October 2017 report, Defense of Animal Agriculture, the Commission explored the need to address vulnerabilities to animal health. Now the Commission intends to revisit and add to its previous recommendations, expanding its review to include other aspects of agricultural security, including the role played by land grant universities and public-private partnerships in safeguarding the nation. Read More »

OpenHIE 2019 Conference in Ethiopia

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Type: 
Conference
Date: 
November 4, 2019 (All day) - November 8, 2019 (All day)
Location: 
Hyatt Regency Addis Ababa
Ethiopia

The OpenHIE community will hold its second annual community meeting November 4-8, 2019 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Between 200 and 300 individuals are expected to attend with the ultimate goal of development and efficient and effective operation of national and regional health information exchanges. OpenHIE, short for Open Health Information Exchange, is a global, mission-driven collective dedicated to improving the health of the underserved through open, collaborative development of implementation tools and to supporting country-driven, large-scale health information exchange. Read More »

OpenEHR Day

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Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 28, 2019 (All day)
Location: 
London
United Kingdom

Over the past years, openEHR solutions with a multivendor environment built on an open and agile architecture have proven to be a successful approach to managing electronic healthcare records at any scale. There are several use cases with a focus on electronic health records (EHR) and related systems, validating the vendor-neutral data concept, where universal interoperability among all forms of electronic health data is ensured.To discuss these topics and present successful use cases, you are kindly invited to the 2019 openEHR day being organized by the openEHR Foundation in collaboration with Better and other partners. The event will take place on Monday, October 28, 2019, at SkillsMatter London, United Kingdom. Read More »

Pistoia Alliance 2019 US Conference

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Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 23, 2019 (All day)

Technology is driving change in life sciences R&D and Healthcare. The Pistoia Alliance 2019 Annual USA Conference will offer a unique opportunity for its members to come together to discuss important developments across the pharma and life science R&D value chain. Plenary presentations, panel discussions, breakout sessions, poster presentation, the final of the President's Startup Challenge and a networking reception will provide stimulus and opportunity for discussions to review the Pistoia Alliance project portfolio and identify key areas for the next generation of pre-competitive collaborative projects that will make a real difference to research and to patients.

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TEDxAUCMed - Weathering the Storm

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Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 17, 2019 (All day)

American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine presents TEDxAUCMed, our inaugural TEDx conference. TED is a global community, welcoming people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world. The theme of this year's event is "Weathering the Storm," and we are excited to present a diverse group of speakers whose insight and experiences will energize us to reflect on our world, our communities, and our own lives. The conference will be held in Lecture Hall 2. We are excited to bring the TEDx experience to AUC and the island of Sint Maarten and look forward to sharing in this experience with you.

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DoD/VA Gov Health IT Summit

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Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 16, 2019 (All day) - October 17, 2019 (All day)

The 17th Annual DoD/VA & Government HIT Summit is designed as a “Town Hall” style forum that illustrates the DoD, VA and Federal Government’s efforts at facilitating an interoperable and modernized health IT ecosystem. This event will discuss the acquisition and current innovations in technology that are being integrated across the DoD, VA, and Federal Government to further enable a compatible, efficient & secure electronic health record system for all active duty & veterans. It will also detail advancements that have been made to secure medical devices in the healthcare system from various cyber-attacks and breaches.

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All Things Open 2019

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Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 13, 2019 (All day) - October 15, 2019 (All day)

All Things Open is the largest open technology event on the East Coast. It is a polyglot technology conference focusing on the tools, processes and people making open source possible. Target audience includes designers, developers, decision makers, entrepreneurs and technologists of all types and skill levels. More than 240 speakers from around the world will present at more than 250 sessions. Conference organizers expect over 4,000 participants to attend the conference. 

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Cyberbio Convergence: Characterizing the Multiplicative Threat

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Type: 
Conference
Date: 
September 17, 2019 (All day)

The cyber and biological scientific arenas are converging rapidly. While the government recognizes that the nation is vulnerable to cyber attacks and continues to invest enormous resources into their prevention, response, and recovery, it invests far less in countering biological attacks. These two areas of science and technology are beginning to converge now, making the nation increasingly unsafe and insecure. On September 17, 2019, we will convene a meeting of the Study Panel, Cyberbio Convergence: Characterizing the Multiplicative Threat to inform our continuing assessment of the biological threat, specific vulnerabilities, and overwhelming consequences.

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ApacheCon 2019

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Type: 
Conference
Date: 
September 9, 2019 (All day) - September 12, 2019 (All day)

ApacheCon is the official global conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. Since 1998 ApacheCon has been drawing participants at all levels to explore "Tomorrow's Technology Today" across 300+ Apache projects and their diverse communities. ApacheCon showcases the latest developments in ubiquitous Apache projects and emerging innovations through hands-on sessions, keynotes, real-world case studies, trainings, hackathons, community events, and more. ApacheCon draws attendees from more than 60 countries to experience "Tomorrow's Technology Today" by showcasing key Open Source technologies independent of business interests, corporate biases, or sales pitches.

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OSEHRA Innovation Webinar: Using TRM Approved Software to Load Synthetic Patients into VistA for Testing

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Type: 
Seminar/Webinar
Date: 
August 27, 2019 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm

This webinar will demonstrate how to use the VistA FHIR Data Loader to import synthetic patients created using Synthea™ into VistA. It will also showcase how to use the OSEHRA Synthea Visualizer to create a visualization of each synthetic patient's data in a longitudinal format, allowing users to decide which patients to import into a VistA instance.

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3rd ONC Interoperability Forum

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Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 21, 2019 (All day) - August 22, 2019 (All day)

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) will host the 3rd Interoperability Forum on August 21st - 22nd, 2019 in Washington, DC. This event will bring people together from ONC, our federal partners, the healthcare industry, and the technology sector to: Learn about recent efforts to advance interoperability nationwide; Identify concrete actions in response to current interoperability barriers; Attendees will hear keynotes from industry influencers, have the opportunity to view demos showcasing innovative solutions and participate in tracks focused on various aspects of interoperability.

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OSEHRA Organizational Meeting

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Type: 
Seminar/Webinar
Date: 
August 16, 2019 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Mark your calendars for an important upcoming virtual community meeting. Please plan to join us Friday, August 16 at 1:00PM ET for an open community call. As most of you know, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs terminated funding for OSEHRA in early 2018. Since that time, the Board of Directors and staff have been actively working on organizational and funding options.

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PyBay 2019

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Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 15, 2019 (All day) - August 16, 2019 (All day)

PyBay is a regional Python conference build by developers for developers. We think in person gatherings where people learn together, code together, and laugh together can build more meaningful connections in this digital dependent world and in-turn make the Python community and developer ecosystem better. Join us and 750+Pythonistas on August 15–18, 2019 in San Francisco, CA! Get ready for a memorable weekend and experience why past attendees say: “Learned a lot!”, “We changed our architecture, tools, and approaches as a result of attending PyBay!”, “Great conversations during the conference that extended to meeting for coffee 2 weeks later”

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EXPO.health 2019

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Type: 
Conference
Date: 
July 31, 2019 (All day) - August 2, 2019 (All day)

We're excited to announce the 2nd EXPO.health conference (Formerly called Health IT Expo) focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. In our 2nd year, we're excited to bring our health IT conference to the beautiful city of Boston, MA on July 31 - August 2, 2019. We've got a great venue to bring together healthcare IT professionals in a community like no other. At the 2019 edition of EXPO.health, we'll continue to focus the conference on 5 main topic areas which are of interest to health IT professionals at hospitals, health systems, and ambulatory organizations:

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OSEHRA Innovation Webinar Features VistA Programming Enhancements

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Type: 
Seminar/Webinar
Date: 
July 30, 2019 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm

OSEHRA’s July Innovation Webinar will focus on VPE,  a set of VistA Programming Utilities that aid in the navigation and development of code in either VistA or RPMS. While VPE was initially designed with VistA in mind, it can also be effective in other MUMPS environments. This Webinar will give you an update on VPE, focusing particularly on the new features of VPE v15.

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OSCON 2019

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Type: 
Conference
Date: 
July 15, 2019 (All day) - July 18, 2019 (All day)

OSCON provides complete coverage of open source technology and projects, no matter the origin or affiliation. Rather than focus on a single language or aspect, our program solely focuses on projects in areas of innovation including cloud, AI, infrastructure, blockchain, edge computing, architecture, and emerging languages. The OSCON Business Summit is designed specifically for executives, business leaders, and strategists. The high-level case studies presented will feature the most promising and successful developments in open source for the enterprise. You'll get an insider's look at the open source implementations that will have the most profound impact on your business.

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44th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop

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Type: 
Conference
Date: 
July 14, 2019 (All day) - July 18, 2019 (All day)
Location: 
Omni Interlocken Hotel Broomfield, CO
United States

Since 1975, the Natural Hazards Center has hosted the Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop in Colorado. Today the Workshop brings together over 500 federal, state, and local mitigation and emergency management officials; representatives of nonprofit, private sector, and humanitarian organizations; hazards and disaster researchers; and others dedicated to alleviating the impacts of disasters. Our Theme: This year, the Workshop will be organized around the theme of Convergence, which refers to the process of people joining forces to respond to pressing challenges and enduring problems. These connections often require the crossing of boundaries, whether they be disciplinary, organizational, geographic, cultural, political, or otherwise. This work can be challenging, but it is also where fundamental breakthroughs in science and application are most likely to occur.

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OSEHRA 2019 Summit

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Type: 
Conference
Date: 
July 9, 2019 (All day) - July 10, 2019 (All day)
Location: 
MD
United States

The Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA) will be holding its 8th Annual Open Source Summit from Tuesday, July 9 through Wednesday, July 10, 2019 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, just north of Washington, D.C. Titled "Open SaaS - Open Source in the Cloud," this year's two-day Summit will showcase leading-edge, open source initiatives and highlight the increasing level of public-private partnership in major programs and agencies. Open source software has become key to both implementation and interoperability as more and more programs opt for cloud-based solutions and software-as-a-service delivery models. This Summit will address ways to optimize open source utilization and community involvement in this new playing field.

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