The EFMI (European Federation for Medical Informatics - www.efmi.org) Working Group on free and open source software in healthcare will hold an inaugural workshop at MIE2006 (www.mie2006.org) in Maastricht, Netherlands.

The workshop is on the morning of August 29, from 9:00 - 11:00. Anyone interested in helping to frame the activities of this new WG, and its inter-realtionship with the IMIA and IMIA-NI OSNI WGs will be very welcome.

CHIRAD is the Centre for Health Informatics Research and Development.

Our aim is to provide an environment for the development of Health Informatics as an academic subject. CHIRAD is a company limited by guarantee that is a non-for-profit organisation. It is probably the first virtual R&D center for Health Informatics. CHIRAD is proud to be an Academic Institutional member of IMIA, the International Medical Informatics Association (www.imia.org ).  

chirad.org is the main CHIRAD portal, while chirad.org.uk is our education-related site.  

For general enquiries about CHIRAD, email: Prof. Graham Wright - This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

For more information on CHIRAD, CHIRAD.INFO, CHIRAD@, IMIA OSWG, FLOSS and other pertinent issues, see the sections of the FAQ, or the Sections of this site as they are developed.

Site development by: Peter Murray - email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it