We had an excellent gala conference dinner at the New Connaught Rooms on Wednesday evening. Due to trying to get things to work properly on the BCS wireless and Ethernet networks, I was not able to take notes on the session by Celia Boyer and Petra Wilson on ‘Trustworthiness in the age of Web 2.0′; however, they covered the Health on the Net code and related issues , and generated discussion of how we might ‘kitemark’ reliable websites that are Web 2.0-based and on which content might be changing rapidly.

Matic Meglic, from Slovenia, talked about ‘Care Management using BPM: Case of depression’. He began by addressing the context of future healthcare, with the development of increasing health information and tools to enable patients to take care of own health, and communicate with others. As a result, patients develop new needs, seeking more control and choice, and 24/7 access online to services. There are moves from assisting/supporting healthcare (Medicine 1.0 model)  to changing nature of healthcare (Medicine 2.0). With new emerging technologies, many of things that were done by health professionals can now be done by patients through eHealth services. He says there is a good number of open source business process modelling/management tools. He moved on to discuss an eDepression project which seeks improve processes, screening, diagnosis and care, to improve quality, patient outcomes, etc.

Anže Droljc , also from Slovenia, talked about ‘Using (open source) BRMS (business rules management system) for Guidance through Clinical Pathways in National Breast Cancer Screening Programme’.
For the project, Drools open source BRMS was used: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drools http://www.jboss.org/drools/

Cristina Mazzoleni and Francesco Di Cerbo, from Italy, talked about ‘Open Source Software and Disability with Rehabilitation: Desert with Few Oases’.

In the afternoon, Jose Luis Hernandes Caceres, from CECAM in Havana, Cuba. He spoke about ‘Open source: just something more, or the only way to overcome the digital divide. Viewpoint of a researcher from a developing country’. Only 1.7% of population of Cuba have Internet access. They have the Infomed portal; 80,000 users with email with international access and a restricted ‘copy of Internet’ – www.infomed.sld.cu

My apologies to those who presentations I have not done justice to; hopefully you, or others, can add comments to fill in the gaps.

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