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Mobile
Location: E145/E146
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Tutorials.
Learn how to develop mobile apps for Android platform in this quick tutorial. Assuming you are familiar with Java or similar OOP, this hands-on example-driven tutorial will show you how Android uses Java and how you can quickly pick it up to start programming for mobile devices.
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Community
Location: D135
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The best, most effective presentations capture the audience quickly,
hold their interest effortlessly, educate and entertain them in equal
measure, and sometimes even inspire them. This tutorial explores seven
basic principles (and dozens of specific techniques) for achieving those
goals in any kind of technical presentation.
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Google App Engine is an development & hosting platform that lets you build & deploy web applications on Google's high-traffic infrastructure. You only need to upload your code: no more worrying about machines, storage, scalability! This tutorial introduces attendees to its architecture & various service APIs. In the hands-on lab, you'll build+deploy a real app to the cloud using Python in minutes!
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Python
Location: E145/E146
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Tutorials.
Design patterns can be very useful in Python (as in any other language) but there are right ways and wrong ways to choose which ones to implement, and how to implement. This advanced tutorial offers many practical examples of "the good, the bad, and the beautiful" ("the ugly" doesn't apply to Python!-) and some theoretical underpinnings for them.
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Tim O'Reilly introduces the Health IT track at OSCON.
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This talk will provide insight into the growing momentum in the use of open source of Health Care information technology (HIT) in the US and abroad with particular focus on the US Federal Government’s influence as a consumer and creator of HIT. Includes an overview of the breadth of existing oss HIT applications, implications for individual health info, and opportunities to get involved.
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This is an overview of everything going on in Open Source Healthcare Software. If you can only attend one healthcare talk this should be it. Get an overview of what you need to know about this movement, which has it own history (it existed in parallel to the free software movement since the 70's) and is fast becoming the dominant force in Healthcare Informatics.
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David Riley
(Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Department of Health and Human Services),
Brian Behlendorf
(World Economic Forum)
This session will provide attendees with an update on the CONNECT technology solution and an overview of how government is using this open source solution to create health information exchanges and tie into the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN).
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NHIN Direct project is a collaboration between the U.S. government, providers, HIT vendors, and other experts to improve how the U.S. health care system handles digital patient data. This talk will cover the project, the Open Source software that exists to support the effort as well as what is still needed to make this successful and how you can get involved.
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The ongoing saga of leading a diverse team of volunteer and contracted developers through the process of getting OpenEMR up to a the standards for ARRA Meaningful certification in 2011 and beyond.
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Open source software developed by Tolven has incorporated principles for assuring privacy from the Health Record Banking Alliance in order to fulfill national requirements for privacy protection of health care information in the Netherlands. The RijnmondNet project provides a valuable model for securing exchange of personal health care information in the United States.
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Many low-resource countries suffer from a critical shortage of health workers. A mature national HRIS enables decision makers to more effectively recruit, train, and retain health professionals. We discuss the use of the open source iHRIS Suite to meet country needs, standards for sharing information, and interoperability between the various components of a complete health information system.
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How low-cost DNA sequencing, the DIYbio movement, and open source collaboration technologies are colliding to allow unprecedented peer collaboration in tackling the critical contemporary challenge of creating a new era of health and biology. Biology is the next open source frontier. Open platforms, current projects, and ways to participate in citizen science genomics are described.
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