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  • African Digital Health Research Institute in Oxford

    A ten-strong delegation from the African Digital Health Research Institute visited Oxford in September for a workshop on Model-Driven EHR and a planning session on the practical way forward for deployment of cityEHR in Africa. The group will report progress on the plan at the next Global Open source EHR summit, due to be held…

  • Federated EHR Using a Blockchain

    The Valkyrie project aims to develop “”a distributed service-oriented architecture for coordinated healthcare services”. It is running from 2021-27, funded by the Norwegian government and led by the Norwegian eHealth Research Centre in Tromsø. John Chelsom presented a paper about the Valkyrie architecture at the Medical Informatics Europe conference in Athens (MIE 2024), entitled “Federated…

  • Telemedicine Integration in Ukraine

    A team from Fordham University, Seven Informatics and Evolved Binary visited Rivne, Ukraine for two weeks at the start of August 2024. They delivered two workshops to students at the National University of Water and Environmental Engineering (NUWEE). The objective was to teach the principles of model-driven EHR and to integrate telemedicine devices with the…

  • African Digital Health Research Institute

    Dr John Chelsom presented a seminar on Model-Driven Electronic Health Records at an virtual event organised by the African Digital Health Research Institute. Members from the ADHRI will be visiting Oxford for an extended workshop in September 2024. The slides are available here.

  • First GOSEHR Summit

    The first summit meeting for the Global Open Source Electronic Health Records (GOSEHR) initiative was held at St Edmund Hall, Oxford on Saturday 30th March, 2024. The event brought together representatives from all the collaborating organisations for introductions, a review of objectives and for future planning. The day was hosted by Naveed Dogar, Director of…

  • Internationalization at Medinfo 2023

    The Medinfo conference returned to in-person attendance in Sydney, Austrailia, after a break due to the Covid pandemic. John Chelsom presented a paper on “An Ontology-Based Architecture to Support Language Variants of Model-Driven Electronic Health Records”. This describes the creation and management of language variants for the clinical information models of cityEHR, which are represented…

  • Applied Health Informatics Launches

    Fordham University has launched the Applied Health Informatics Masters Program today, with the first cohort attending the first online class. The program has been a long time in the making, having been delayed by the Covid pandemic, and launches as an online-only experience for the first cohort who are located in New York and in…

  • Rural Telemedicine in Ukraine

    The World Bank has published a handbook for rural telemedicine in Ukraine, entitled “Ukraine – Rural Health and Telemedicine : Telemedicine Implementation Handbook” which was written by John Chelsom, Conceicao Granja and Abdul Roudsari, following a World Bank project which started in 2018. The handbook was based primarily on research and pilot implementations in the…