GOSCON Approved by HIMSS for Education Credits

Another conference first for 2008; we're pleased to announce that GOSCON has been approved by HIMSS for up to 4.5 contact hours of continuing education credit towards renewal of the CPHIMS credential.

Sessions approved for credit include:

• Executive Panel: Macro Trends Set the Stage for Open Source in Public Health
• Applying Open Source Methodologies to Build Public Health Software Collaboratively
• Health Atlas Ireland: Integrating data sets, GIS, statistics for health service planning, epidemiology, and incident management.
• Transitioning from Proprietary to Open Source Software: Issues and Lessons Learned through OpenELIS