Paul Biondich

Paul Biondich
Co-Founder, OpenMRS

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Dr. Paul Biondich is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Informatics at the Indiana University School of Medicine; Investigator at the Regenstrief Institute; Director of Informatics for the Indiana University Center for Global Health; and Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Medical Informatics. His primary career focus is in the research and development of health information systems for resource poor settings. Dr. Biondich leads the open source, global community project Open Medical Record System (OpenMRS) which collaboratively develops a freely available, medical record system platform presently utilized in over forty countries throughout the world. He is also actively involved in the Health Informatics Public Private Partnership, a PEPFAR sponsored initiative to provide adaptive technical assistance towards development of sustainable health information exchanges within low and middle income countries.

Sessions

5:00pm Wednesday, 07/18/2012
Global communities building open source Health IT platforms: The OpenMRS experience
Healthcare
 Location: E146
Tags: collaboration, ehr, emr, health_it, global, health_records, platforms, global_health, openmrs
Paul Biondich (OpenMRS), Burke Mamlin (OpenMRS), Hamish Fraser (Partners In Health)
Average rating: ***..
(3.67, 3 ratings)
What are the advantages and disadvantages of building Health IT platforms instead of out-of-the box systems? How can people building these systems share tools and resources with others in different countries who may do very different work? This panel of participants in the OpenMRS community will share their real-world experiences from multiple continents on a variety of scales. Read more.
10:40am Thursday, 07/19/2012
Open Standards and Open Architecture in Global Health: Saving Lives with Open Source
Healthcare
 Location: E146
Tags: collaboration, ehr, emr, health_it, global, health_records, platforms, global_health, openmrs, open_standards, open_architecture
Paul Biondich (OpenMRS), Derek Ritz (ecGroup Inc.), Dykki Settle (IntraHealth International), Eduardo Jezierski (InSTEDD)
Average rating: ***..
(3.86, 7 ratings)
Open standards and open architecture support developing countries to build systems in a more thoughtful and pragmatic way. Through this approach, and using these tools, we can follow an example of how Rwanda has begun to design and develop a national health information system, and how this will allow other countries to do the same, more quickly and more effectively then ever before Read more.
3:20pm Thursday, 07/19/2012
Office Hour with Michael Downey, et al
Office Hours
 Location: Expo Hall (Table B)
Hamish Fraser (Partners In Health), Dykki Settle (IntraHealth International), Paul Biondich (OpenMRS), Derek Ritz (ecGroup Inc.)
Come chat with Michael Downey and the other OpenMRS presenters, Paul Biondich, Hamish Fraser, and Joaquin Blaya. Read more.

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