Sustainable Collaborations in Healthcare Open Source Software

Workshop on 3 April 2009 in the MEDETEL in Luxemburg

Seeking effective healthcare solutions, would you like to receive support from Free/Libre Open Source Software communities ?

And if yes, would you allow partners to access your own additional developments and know-how ?

A meeting of the LIFOSS working group of EFMI, www.efmi.org, explaining and discussing the web site in construction at :

www.chos-wg.eu

The 3 main groups of questions to be discussed are :

* Introduction : what means the open source approach and what are the motivations in healthcare ?

* Development issues : which aspects can be shared as common software modules, between different projects. How to manage collaborations between projects, sharing resources at international level ? (morning session).

* Sustainable support services : what are the conditions in order to install and maintain sustainable implementations based on Open Source softwares ? How to manage recurrent yearly maintenance services in a professional way and as a traditional business model at regional level ? (afternoon session).

Participants are invited to provide notes and/or links to external web pages, in advance of the meeting. Particularly about requirements and dreams which could potentially be shared with other users.

The questions and suggestions raised during the workshop will be used to improve and to extend the next version of the website.

The workshop will prepare a roadmap for the next activities of the working group.