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From the 16th until the 18th of April 2008 Med-e-Tel, the international educational and networking forum for eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT will take place at the Luxexpo in Luxembourg.

Beside various other interesting events, a workshop about Facilitating Collaboration to Facilitate Tele-Success will be held on Friday 18th of April and is split into four different sessions:

• From the Bottom Up: Designing from the User Perspective (Bill Parlette, iPath Association, Switzerland)
• What Else Is Going On? Building a Project Database (Holger Schmuhl, apfelkraut.org, Germany)
• Practical Considerations: Infrastructure, Links and Tools (Erik Blantz, INVENEO, USA)
• Price-Performance via Open Source Tools (Dr. Etienne Saliez, VCT-TK, Belgium)

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After one week I performed today a major update of the overview of open source software for the health care sector at freemedsw.apfelkraut.org.

Meanwhile more than 70 FOSS projects are listed and counting … According to the number of visits per day there seems to be at least some interest in this overview (Wed: 40, Thu: 120, Fri: 270, Sa: 130 visits). Thank you!

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An overview of open source projects for the health care sector just went online. I created this list out of the need to have an up-to-date, detailed and comprehensive list of free medical software. When I was looking for a tool for a certain purpose, I found some listings, but most of them were out-of-date or limited to a particular project type. I was also afraid of digging sourceforge.net or freshmeat.com as it always takes some time to find the right stuff.

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As announced by heise online today, our fellows from Redmond have initiated a new Web site to warn you about counterfeit software (Check out “Protect Yourself” - “View examples of counterfeit software”). For example this … Read the rest of this entry »