[wplug-plan] Open Source in Medical Software

Patrick Wagstrom pwagstro at andrew.cmu.edu
Thu Feb 22 19:48:30 EST 2007


David Ostroske wrote:
> Is anyone interested in hearing a talk about the use of Free and Open
> Source Software by medical professionals?
> 
> Software in the health care professions serve very specific and
> sometimes obscure purposes. I had a chance to talk to Dr. Tom Peters
> of Tolven, Inc. last week, and he expressed interest in talking about
> his organization's promotion of F/OSS to hospitals and clinics. I
> think we're in a great position to turn up a lot of interest in this
> field, as Pittsburgh has a lot of medical research institutes.
> 
> What do you all think? Should I ask him to come back to talk to us?

yes

--patrick





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