Meetings

OpenHIE, a global initiative focused on supporting the use of data exchange standards and the implementation of health system interoperability to improve healthcare in low-resource environments, has scheduled its annual Community Meeting for November 12-16 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. OpenHIE, short for Open Health Information Exchange, is a global community of practice dedicated to building an open framework that supports nations in developing country-driven, large-scale HIEs. Its primary goal is to support countries as they strive to improve health outcomes in regions with limited resources through better data sharing. Members of the community work jointly with real-world users to resolve data communication and exchange problems. Many countries leverage OpenHIE’s approaches and reference its technologies and community processes as part of their digital health strategies.

University of Cincinnati Cancer Center experts will present research at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting Sept. 29 through Oct. 2. 

The Annual Assembly of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, taking place today on Thursday 26th September and Friday 27th September on the theme “Origin and Beginning of Life” in Halle (Saale)/Germany, has begun. NASA’s former Head of Science Professor Dr Thomas Zurbuchen opens the event with a speech on the search for life in space. Physics Nobel Prize winner Professor Dr Didier Queloz is scheduled to give a speech in the evening. All speeches and lectures at the Annual Assembly will also be available via livestream.