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Sep. 2010: HL7 Ambassador

Prof. Supten Sarbadhikari, Director of Healthcare Informatics has been nominated as a HL7 Ambassador.

Sep. 2010: EMR Standards Committee Membership

Prof. Supten Sarbadhikari, Director of Healthcare Informatics has been nominated as a member of the EMR Standards Committee of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.

STOP PRESS: Australia

CAL2CAL is developing a prototype allied health application to be used in the domain of health informatics and Telehealth. The initial prototype has recently been completed and delivered to the University of Southern Queensland, Australia for field trial in Queensland and internationally.

STOP PRESS: UK

CAL2CAL has been awarded a Wales Government SIF grant to establish its offices in Swansea, Wales to develop the health informatics mobile devices for the UK market

ASSIGNMENT & NEWS EDITORS Electronic Child Abuse Reporting System

CAL2CAL is developing an Electronic Child Abuse Reporting System. The new system known as Electronic-Suspected Child Abuse Reports System, or E-SCARS, was implemented three months ago to enhance children’s safety. http://da.co.la.ca.us/mr/022410a.htm

Sept 2009: London Knowledge Connect award

CAL2CAL has won a London Knowledge Connect award to develop an anti-obesity application – Sept 2009

April 2009: The 4th International Conference on Persuasive Technology

Mr.Gora Datta, is the Vendor Exhibition Chair and part of the Organizing Committee for the upcoming Conference “Persuasive 2009 – The 4th International Conference on Persuasive Technology” (www.persuasive2009.net), Apr 26-29, 2009.

October 2008: ISO TC:215 (Health Informatics) meeting

Mr. Gora Datta, Chairman & CEO is representing the US, as a part of the US Technical Advisory Group, in the ISO TC:215 (Health Informatics) meeting in Istanbul from Oct 12th to 15th, 2008. In this meeting, on Oct 14th, he presents a talk on "eHealth Developing World – use of mobile PHR/EHR" in WorkGroup 8 session.

September 2008: HL7 Plenary and Working Group Meeting in Vancouver

Mr. Gora Datta attends the HL7 Plenary and Working Group Meeting in Vancouver during Sep 14-19, 2008.On Sept 15th, he presented at a birds-of-feather (BoF) session on “eHealth in Developing Countries” and on Sep 17, at the EHR Workgroup session, he addressed the gathering on “Use of EHR/PHR in Developing & Emerging Economies”.

March 2006: Public Health – Case Study

CAL2CAL’s development was acknowledged in, “A Report for the Intergovernmental Advisory Board, GSA, US Govt., March 2006. Health IT in Government-Transforming Health Care and Empowering Citizens. “A Standard (HL7 V3) Based Public Health Information Network for Los Angeles County Department of Health Services: Public Health – Case Study”, as one of the 17 best practices in this arena.