OpenClinical News- February 2002

Committed to the Open Source Movement in Healthcare

Established
16 October 1998

updated: 4 February 2002

Dear Colleague

Just published on OpenClinical are the report and presentations from the first OpenClinical workshop on “Methods for the Representation of Clinical Guidelines”

OpenClinical is happy to promote local activities in core interest areas. For example, we are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for an upcoming one-day meeting in London to be held on 22 April 2002. “Advances in Clinical Knowledge Management” is being managed by the Knowledge Management Centre University College, London and Imperial Cancer Research Fund with support from the British Medical Informatics Society and the Health Libaries Group of the Association of Librarians and Information Managers

Do note that you can help us develop the site by sending us corrections, additions and updates on any topic we cover, particularly in the resources area. We are especially interested at the moment in expanding two services: the clinical application demonstrator showcase and the archive of Artificial Intelligence systems in clinical practice

If you know of any knowledge management system that fits either of these categories and is not covered on the site, then why not have it included ? Just follow the templates used on the relevant site pages and email details to us at open@openclinical.org

A white paper on quality, safety and ethical practices in the use of computers to advise on patient care will be published in the next few weeks. A further workshop, on "open source clinical knowledge" part-sponsored by OpenClinical is also being planned

Richard Thomson
Editor, OpenClinical

This newsletter was published by OpenClinical.org on 29 January 2002