Open Source to be Featured at American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium

OpenClinica will be presented in a workshop on open source software at the upcoming 2007 Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association in Chicago.

Cambridge, MA (PRWEB) November 3, 2007 -- OpenClinica will be presented in a workshop on open source software at the upcoming 2007 Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association in Chicago. The workshop, titled "Open Source Tools and Applications in Medical Informatics," takes place from 7:00 - 9:30pm on November 10th at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers.

Representing OpenClinica will be Cal Collins, Akaza Research's Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Collins will present at the workshop along with representatives from the University of Utah, IBM, Webreach, Regenstrief institute, Tolven, and Mendocino Informatics.

Other open source products represented include:

- Projeny (probabilistic networks generator),

- Eclipse Open Healthcare Framework

- Mirth Project (HL7 engine)

- Tolven (Clinician and Personal Electronic Health Record)

- OpenEMPI (Enterprise Master Person Index)

For more information see http://www.amia.org/meetings/f07/showDoc.asp?DiD=30.

About OpenClinica®

OpenClinica is open source web-based electronic data capture software for clinical research. It facilitates protocol configuration, design of case report forms, clinical data capture, and study/data management. OpenClinica supports HIPAA and 21 CFR Part 11 guidelines and is designed as a lightweight, standards-based, extensible, and modular platform. All versions of OpenClinica are available for download at http://www.OpenClinica.org.

About Akaza Research®

Akaza Research, the leading provider of open source clinical trial software, is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Akaza has developed and commercialized OpenClinica, the preeminent open source clinical trial data capture and management software platform. Akaza brings Open Source Software (OSS) into the mainstream of the clinical research enterprise by making robust, flexible, standards-based systems accessible for private and public research. Akaza Research provides OpenClinica support, training, and consulting services to its customers worldwide. See http://www.akazaresearch.com.

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