Open Source in Public Safety and Healthcare

Open source is playing a leading role in solving data collection and
distribution problems in the healthcare field. Our panelists will provide an
overview of some of these solutions as well as an outline of how they benefit
patients. The open source VistA electronic health record system, developed
over the past thirty years by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, is being
successfully deployed at clinics and hospitals all across the U.S. as well as
foreign countries. The Kingdom of Jordan is in the middle of an ambitious
program to implement VistA in the entire country. Obstacles to the exchange of
medical records and critical care information are being overcome by the open
source CONNECT project. A medical module for an open source corrections
offender management system that was developed through a 14 state consortium
will be unveiled during the conference.

About the speakers:

Roger A. Maduro is a leading pioneer and expert in the use of open solutions in the enterprise as well as in the healthcare environment. He is presently a member of the board of Open Health Tools. He publishes a newsletter, VistA and Open Healthcare News that tracks the rise of open source in the healthcare industry.

Mr. Riley facilitates consensus across a group of 26 federal agencies and institutes to enhance health information sharing on a nationwide basis. His work resulted in successful demonstrations of health information sharing across multiple agencies and non-governmental health enterprises in the NHIN Forum of December, 2008. He has served as the Chief, Technology Discovery and Insertion directly for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs.

Nancy Anthracite is a Graduate of Boston University School of Medicine's 6 year medical program, Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. She has had varying experience including academic medicine as the former third year medical clerkship director for the Department of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, private practice in the Florida panhandle and more than 14 years in occupational medicine in the Washington DC area, most recently seeing patients at the Department of Veterans Affairs Central Office. She has been supportive of WorldVistA since its inception and joined the management team as CMO in April of 2007. She became president in August of 2009.

Dwayne Peeples, Deputy Commissioner for Administration and Medical Services, returns to the Department of Corrections after serving as Director of Health Care Services (Department of Health and Social Services) from 2003 to 2006. Prior to this, he was Director of DOC, Division of Administrative Services from 1997 to 2002; Finance Officer for the Alaska   Seafood Marketing Institute and Deputy Director for the Alaska Division of Public Health. The Deputy Commissioner holds a Masters in Public Administration from Seattle University has lived in Alaska since 1976 and has been employed by the State of Alaska since 1980.