Michael Hogarth, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UC Davis
Thursday, October 6, 2005
1131 Kemper Hall
3 :10-4:00 p.m.
HOST: Prof. Michael Gertz (gertz@cs.ucdavis.edu)
A Study of Clinically Related Open Source Projects
Open source software development has recently gained significant interest due to several successful mainstream open source projects. This methodology has been proposed as being similarly viable and beneficial in the clinical application domain as well. However, the clinical software development venue differs from the mainstream software venue. In order to better understand the 'clinical' open source movement, we undertook a study of existing open source clinical projects. In this study we sought to characterize and classify existing clinical open source projects and to determine metrics for their viability. This study revealed several findings which we believe could guide the healthcare community in its quest for successful open source clinical software projects.
Bio
ABOUT THE SPEAKER. Dr. Hogarth has been a faculty member in the UC Davis School of Medicine since 1998. He received his medical degree from the University of Texas - Southwestern and completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the UC Davis Medical Center. He also completed a fellowship in medical informatics at UC Davis. His research interest include data standards in healthcare informatics, the sociotechnical aspects of open source software, and knowledge engineering in support of life sciences.
Dr. Hogarth is an active member of the medical informatics community and participates in both the Health Level - 7 (HL-7) data standards organization as well as the National Association of Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS).