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The XML Prague 2026 conference took place 4th – 6th June in … Prague. There was a one-day ‘unconference’ workshop followed by two days of regular conference presentations from the great and the good of the world of XML. The workshop on “XQuery and XML Databases“, hosted by Adam Retter, included a presentation on “cityEHR…

“Цифрова трансформація університетів” John Chelsom made a presentation on “Preparing for the Digital Transformation of Healthcare in Ukraine” at the two-day conference on Digital Transformation of Universities in Ukraine held at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU), Sheptytsky Center in Lviv Presentation slides are available in English and Ukrainian. The key message was that universities in…

The third annual summit meeting for the Global Open Source Electronic Health Records initiative was held at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, on Saturday 21st March, 2026. The day was chaired by Naveed Dogar from Seven Informatics and the University of Oxford. The opening session focused on the Telemedicine integration project in Rivne, Ukraine, the associated…

Seven Informatics and Nord University (Norway) hosted a one-week workshop on curriculum development for Health Informatics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. The workshop was attended by faculty from five universities in Ukraine (National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, Kyiv Aviation Institute, Mariupol State University, Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, and Kyiv National…

Naveed Dogar presented a paper at the 2026 eSociety conference in Zagreb, entitled Elfin – An Ontology-Based Health Record For The Fracture Liaison Service. This paper describes the implementation of an ontology-based Electronic Health Record for clinical management and reporting in a Fracture Liaison Service. The system, called Elfin, was first implemented in live practice…

The first of a series of five workshops was held at the Rivne Vocational College of IT on the weekend of 7-8 February, attended by 30 students from the IT College, the National University of Water and Environmental Engineering (NUWEE) and the Kyiv Aviation Institute (KAI). The workshops will be held each month and are…

A one-day workshop was held on 4th February at the Kyiv Aviation Institute to kick-off an initiative to develop a curriculum for teaching of Health Informatics at universities in Ukraine. Professor Conceição Granja Bartnæs from Nord University in Norway and Dr John Chelsom from Seven Informatics presented an introduction to Health Informatics to professors and…

In January 2026 Seven Informatics purchased refurbished IT equipment from UK suppliers, for shipment to Ukraine: a 42u rack cabinet, three HP Proliant servers, a Cisco security appliance, an HP Uninterruptible Power Supply with battery extension pack, and a 12Tb QNAP NAS. The equipment was transported from Oxford to Ukraine on a Mitsubishi L200 pickup…

A telemedicine integration project for the Rivne oblast in Ukraine has received funding from the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) through a donation to the NGO 100% Life, Rivne. The project will run from January to June 2026, with an initial three month development phase, followed by deployment at the regional hospital. The integration will link…

Kerry Gilder presented a paper on AI-Assisted UML Modeling for Serious Mental Illness Crisis Management at the eTelemed-25 conference in Nice, France. The paper was subsequently invited for extended publication in the IARIA Journals. From the abstract: “This study assesses the effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams in illustrating the…