Fred Trotter introduced the OSCON audience to the Health Internet during his Thursday morning keynote.

Fred Trotter is a consultant and advocate for Free/Libre and Open Source (FOSS) Health Software, and he is the Technology Activist for the Cautious Patient Foundation, an organization focused on helping individuals improve their chance of avoiding medical errors – defined broadly to include misdiagnoses and undertreatment.

At the end of his talk, Trotter asked the OSCON attendees, “What is going to be on the Health Internet?” Because, he explained, it’s up to the open source community to make it happen.

Beyond Trotter’s five-minute keynote, there were quite a few sessions focused on health care IT at OSCON, including one on crowdsourcing clinical trials from the executives at Genomera, a health care collaboration technology company.

I particularly liked (and agreed with) this sentiment from @anomalizer:

“This year’s #oscon has lots of appeals asking geeks to work on healthcare. I concur. Better than getting people to raise virtual carrots.”

So quit working on a fun little game App for Android and get to work developing something that will change how health care works in this country!

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