Hi,
I have just came across this posting from the UK Medical Physics
mailing list. A bit late now, but I thought I'd share this with you
anyway as there is nothing private in it.
Best regards - Juergen
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From: "McDonagh, Ed" <Ed.McDonagh@RMH.NHS.UK>
Subject: [MPE] Can OSS be used for Clinical Work?: Registration deadline reminder
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 17:55:54 +0100
To: MEDICAL-PHYSICS-ENGINEERING@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Reply-To: Discussion amongst academic Medical Physics in the UK <MEDICAL-PHYSICS-ENGINEERING@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Dear list
A reminder of the registration deadline for the following meeting:
Can Open Source Software be used for Clinical Work?
7 November 2007, King?s Fund, London
Organised by the IPEM Informatics and Computing SIG
Registration deadline: 22 October 2007
Medical Physicists and Engineers have been writing in-house software for
clinical use since computers were first introduced into hospitals. Open Source
Software (OSS) is licensed such that users are allowed to study, modify and
redistribute applications, and enables a more scientific approach to writing
software, being able to both publish your techniques and learn from other
peoples work.
This programming approach is ideal for applications in healthcare, where many
hospitals have similar requirements but tend to write their own software and
thus end up re-inventing something that has been created elsewhere.
Collaborating on OSS projects enables more people to work on the same software,
reducing duplication of effort and improving the quality, usefulness and
availability of the code. Advantages over proprietary software include being
able to inspect and verify routines and customise them for your own purposes.
However, whilst there are stringent regulations for selling software that
affects patient outcomes, there are no clear guidelines for sharing OSS.
Without such guidelines concerns about legal liability can often present a
barrier to OSS adoption.
Registration form can be downloaded from the IPEM Website: http://
www.ipem.ac.uk/docimages/1991.pdf
Provisional Programme
09:00 - 09:50 Coffee and registration
09:50 - 10:00 Introduction Dom Withers, Guy?s and St Thomas? Hospitals,
London.
10:00 - 10:20 Open source for in-house development of medical software? Phil
Cosgriff, Pilgrim Hospital, Boston.
10:20 - 10:40 Web-based film Quality Assurance Database Paul McGrane,
Edinburgh Cancer Centre, Edinburgh.
10:40 - 11:00 Using Open Source Software within the RRPPS ADS Allan Green,
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.
11:00 - 11:20 Making use of the Open Source Software "Bazaar" in a Nuclear
Medicine Department Dudley Ibbett, Derby Hospitals, Derby.
11:20 - 11:40 Coffee
11:40 - 12:25 Examining Freedom - free software in healthcare Matt Lee, GNU
Project.
12:25 - 12:45 Using Open Source Software for Interactive Webcasting in Health
Inocencio Maramba, University of Plymouth.
12:45 - 13:10 The IQWorks project; progress so far Paul McGrane, Edinburgh
Cancer Centre; Ed McDonagh, Royal Marsden Hospital, London.
13:10 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:20 Ethical considerations - trust me, I'm a geek Alan J Green,
PEAK, University of Keele.
14:20 - 14:40 Using FOSS to make PACS work James Moggridge, St George?s
Hospital, Tooting.
14:40 - 15:00 Using Java and PostgreSQL for Clinical Image Handling in
Radiotherapy Gunaranjan Bose, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.
15:00 - 15:20 Open Source Radiotherapy Treatment Planning Systems Henry
Lawrence, Bristol Haematolology and Oncology Centre, Bristol.
15:20 - 15:40 Tea
15:40 - 15:55 Roundtable: Adopting Open Source Best Practices Chris Finch,
Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle.
15:55 - 16:10 Roundtable: Radiotherapy accelerator log database for Varian
Clinacs Lindsay Cherry, Edinburgh Cancer Centre, Edinburgh.
16:10 - 16:40 Further Roundtable Discussion and Close
The provisional programme can also be downloaded from the IPEM website: http://
www.ipem.ac.uk/docimages/1992.pdf
Kind regards,
Ed McDonagh
Chair, Informatics and Computing SIG of IPEM
Diag. Radiology/PACS/Computing Physicist
Physics Department
Royal Marsden Hospital
Fulham Road
London SW3 6JJ
020 7808 2512
ed.mcdonagh@rmh.nhs.uk
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