caBIG® - conference notice Sept 13-15 Washington, DC

The 2010 Annual Meeting, Building a Collaborative Biomedical Network, will be held September 13-15, 2010, at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C. The caBIG® Annual Meeting is for you and your colleagues to see how caBIG® tools will enhance your research, to learn how your peers are achieving productivity gains, and to voice your opinions on what you need in the future from caBIG® tools and technologies. Join other researchers, clinicians, and informaticians for this once yearly event!
The meeting is free to attend and open to the public.

In the News (U.S.) NCI will offer cancer e-care record for providers

"The EHR is based on a early reference implementation of the Patient Outcomes Data Service, an open source “ultra-light record” derived from standards of NCI’s Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG).
The record, which is set up to provide data on patient demographics, disease and treatment results, could be used by providers and even consumers for data exchange.
“Because we use standards, anybody can push it or receive it,” Buetow said in remarks at a conference sponsored April 12 by the World Health Care Congress
The specifications and the software are available now through the NCI site but are not consumer-friendly, Buetow said. NCI plans to make it easily accessible to providers and consumers who would want to use it, within 60 days.
NCI is working with SAIC and Microsoft on the project, he added"