David Uhlman
ceo, clearhealth inc.

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David Uhlman is CEO of ClearHealth Inc. and a has been longstanding contributor and entrepreneur in open source technology for 15 years including contributions to Linux, Java, CentOS, and Joomla. He is a frequent speaker and contributor including previous talks at OSCON, SCALE, and others.

ClearHealth Inc is the company associated with the ClearHealth open source project, a practice management and electronic medical record system derived from VA VistA started in 2003 which now has over 4 million patients in more than 1,000 installations including notable large scale systems like Tarrant County TX, The Primary Care Coalition, The University of Texas Medical Branch and numerous Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) nationwide.

Sessions

5:20pm Thursday, 07/22/2010
Modernizing VistA, ClearHealth's Invaluable Lessons from 'Legacy' Technology and Ways Forward
Health
 Location: F151
Tags: emr, vista
David Uhlman (clearhealth inc.)
Average rating: **...
(2.50, 2 ratings)
The VistA system created by the Department of Veterans Affairs is by most measures the most successful medical record ever devised. We'll take a detailed look at ClearHealth's multi-year odyssey of re-implementing VistA using contemporary languages, tools, and databases as well as insight into the core features and usability that make VistA so successful. Read more.
11:50am Friday, 07/23/2010
Data Mining in the EMR Gold Rush
Health
 Location: F151
Tags: emr, data, graphviz
David Uhlman (clearhealth inc.)
Average rating: ***..
(3.67, 3 ratings)
The ongoing nationwide adoption of EMR presents enormous new opportunities and challenges for collecting, analyzing and reporting data for patient outcome improvement, cost control, and efficiency in care. We'll take a look at a number of open tools available and techniques to apply them to healthcare data including neural nets, data visualization and statistical modeling. Read more.
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