Open Source Electronic Records: The Potential and the Caveats
John Halamka, M.D., M.S.

Doctor Halamka is Chief Information Officer of the CareGroup Health System, Chief Information Officer and Dean for Technology at Harvard Medical School, Chairman of the New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network (NEHEN), CEO of MA-SHARE (the Regional Health Information Organization), Chair of the US Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), and a practicing emergency physician.

Dr. Halamka will share his unique insights into the American healthcare crisis and how collaboration is the key to future improvement.

"The idea is simple - take the publicly available code from the Veterans Administration clinical information system, add new modules such as revenue cycle interfaces that are needed in practices outside the VA system and include support/implementation services. In effect, you'll have the 'Red Hat Linux' of the electronic health record world."

- from "Life As a Healthcare CIO" (http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com)

Learn more about Dr. Halamka, his professional responsibilities, and his views on the use of electronic records and Open Source.

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