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OSCAR pioneer, Dr. Susan Harris, dies at the age of 59

 

Third National User Group meeting is schedule for Calgary Oct 30, 2009

 

OSCARcanada's first fundraising campaign is launched!

 

OSCAR Demonstration on March 26 in Vancouver

 

2009 BC Usergroup meeting-March 27, 2009

 

National OSCAR User Group meets in Toronto Nov 08

 

Insist on Open Source

A National Dialog ON HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY

Dr. Sue Harris wins award

 

OSCAR goes to Quebec

 

OSCAR BC Usergroup Meeting April 11, 2008

 

BC OSCAR demo being held April 10 2008

 

OSCARMcMaster 2.2 has completed the Validation Execution of CMS Specification 2.0 successfully!!!

It happened during the week of January 21 – January 24, 2008 at OntarioMD. The official notification for certification should be forthcoming pending on some additional paper work. Congratulations to Jay and Ronnie of the McMaster OSCAR Team. This represents almost 6 months of hard work. The key components of Specification 2.0 include the prevention module and the importing and exporting standardized information. It's a big step toward interoperability between different vendor products. We are very proud to be the the first product that completed it.

OSCAR-CAISI: Silver Award Winner in CIPA 2007 National Innovation Competition

OSCAR-CAISI is the Silver Award Winner in the Category of "Efficiency and Operational Improvements – Not For Profit" in the Canadian Information Productivity Award 2007 (http://cipa.ca/). CIPA is a celebration of IT and innovation implementation excellence in all types of organizations across the country. A CIPA award constitutes the highest form of recognition for the capabilities of an organization and its executives.

Support for CAISI Project recommended in Toronto Central LHIN Equity Report section on Access to Information

The Toronto Central LHIN discussion paper on Equity (July 2008) had a section discussing Access to Information. In this section the paper spoke in support of the CAISI Project and recommended funding for the CAISI Project in the next 12 months, see the details of this section below

Open-Source Health Care Alliance international conference in Kuala Lumpur

May 2007, Dr David Chan, Jay Gallagher and Jel Coward presenting MyOSCAR and the evolution of OSCAR's community and support structure at the Open-Source Health Care Alliance international conference in Kuala Lumpur

The First National OSCAR User Group Meeting was held in Winnipeg at the Family Medicine Forum on October 13, 2007

At this first national OSCAR user group meeting, current users had theNational OSCAR Usergroup meeting 2007 Winnipeg opportunity to meet other users and OSCAR's development team. They learned about new features and how to use OSCAR to their best advantage. The group worked by consensus to make decisions about future development. People interested in becoming OSCAR users were welcome to attend and see how the OSCAR community works together.

MyOSCAR is unveiled at NAPCRG in Vancouver Oct 2007

 

BC OSCAR User Group Meeting Jan 8, 2007

The BC OSCAR User Group invites you to come and hear about Free / Open Source software and how physicians are driving the OSCAR Open Source Electronic Medical Record in BC. There will be a presentation by Dr David Chan, OSCAR’s founder, and the OSCAR user community in BC. OSCAR is a web-based electronic medical record system currently deployed in a number of clinics both in Canada and around the world. OSCAR software has no licensing costs and allows the user to choose who provides maintenance and support to their system.

A medical open-source legal hell-hole

To open-source or not to open-source was never in question as far as Steve Shreeve, founding CEO and largest shareholder of Medsphere Systems Corp., was concerned. So, this summer, Steve, self-proclaimed open-source software leader, and his twin-brother Scott, released the company's matured code on SourceForge under the GPL.

GPs revolt over patient files privacy

Poll shows doctors fear national database will be at risk from hackers John Carvel, social affairs editor Tuesday November 21, 2006 The Guardian