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Bergen Summer Research School - Deadline today! - Course on Mobile Data Capture in Research....
Hi everyone,
This is an email about a workshop in mobile data collection that might be of interest to some of you.
Warm regards,
Joaquin
2010/3/1 Jørn Ivar Klungsøyr <<mailto:>>
Hi everybody,
Sorry for the very last minute email.....
Just wanted to let you know that we are organizing a 2 week course this summer called: Electronic Mobile Data in Global Health Research: A Hands-on Course - http://bsrs.no/program/2010/Courses/Course_Mobile%20data.htm
The deadline for sending in an online application for the course is TODAY March 1st, there are a number of scholarships (travel,subsistence etc) available for the course. If you think this course can be of interest to any of you or in your network, then your welcome to apply for the course (:=
Website with more information: www.bsrs.no<http://www.bsrs.no>
Link to application form: http://bsrs.no/application-form/
The short version of the course description copied here for your convenience:
Implementation of measures to improve public health in most countries in the world requires good data either as a baseline or in the evaluation process. This course will give an in-depth coverage of new and emerging data collection and management tools using mobile telephones, handheld computers and web-based systems. The course will cover all steps required from designing a study, setting up systems and including immediate analysis using open source tools.
The course provides an update on current state-of-the-art ways of collecting and managing data collected in health research in different settings, highlighting the special challenges in low-resource settings.
* Principles of data management in health research
* Paper and double data entry
* Electronic data collection
* Data management and security
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The course is a course focusing on increasing the quality of field research data collection and management through the usage of the free and open source software packages including:
* openXdata, mobile and web solution for data collection and management
www.openxdata.org<http://www.openxdata.org/>
* OpenMRS, a medical record system
www.openmrs.org<http://openmrs.org/wiki/OpenMRS>
* OpenClinica, a clinical trial system
www.openclinica.org<http://www.openclinica.org/>
* R, a statistical package
www.r-project.org<http://www.r-project.org/>
Best regards,
Jørn Klungsøyr
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Jorn Klungsoyr
openXdata - Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Norway
www.openxdata.org<http://www.openxdata.org> / www.cih.uib.no<http://www.cih.uib.no> / www.openrosa.org<http://www.openrosa.org> / www.open-mobile.org<http://www.open-mobile.org>
Mobile: +4791365731, Office: +4755588574, Skype/GoogleTalk: jornklung Alternative email: <mailto:>
Post: Postboks 7800, 5020 Bergen, Visit: Årstadveien 21, 5th Floor, Bergen
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Rajbir Singh
Dear Joaquin,
expand commentis it possible to join this workshop online from India?
best regards,
Dr. Rajbir Singh
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:38 PM, GHDonline (Joaquin Blaya) <
> wrote:
> Joaquin Blaya added a new discussion to the Health IT community.
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> Title: Bergen Summer Research School - Deadline today! - Course on Mobile
> Data Capture in Research....
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> Discussion contents:
> "Hi everyone,
> This is an email about a workshop in mobile data collection that might be
> of interest to some of you.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Joaquin
> 2010/3/1 Jørn Ivar Klungsøyr <:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> Sorry for the very last minute email.....
>
> Just wanted to let you know that we are organizing a 2 week course this
> summer called: Electronic Mobile Data in Global Health Research: A Hands-on
> Course - http://bsrs.no/program/2010/Courses/Course_Mobile%20data.htm
>
> The deadline for sending in an online application for the course is TODAY
> March 1st, there are a number of scholarships (travel,subsistence etc)
> available for the course. If you think this course can be of interest to any
> of you or in your network, then your welcome to apply for the course ...
10:45 AM, 1 Mar 2010 | Permalink
Joaquin Blaya, PhD
Rajbir,
I would contact the conference directly to see about this, either at their website http://bsrs.no/program/2010/Courses/Course_Mobile%20data.htm or the organizer Jørn Ivar Klungsøyr <mailto:> I unfortunately don't have more details than that.
Warm regards,
Joaquin
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NLM Fellow, Decision Systems Group, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Research Fellow, Partners In Health
Moderator, GHDOnline.org<http://www.GHDOnline.org>
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From: GHDonline (Rajbir Singh) [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 10:45 AM
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Subject: Re: [Health IT] Bergen Summer Research School - Deadline today! - Course on Mobile Data Capture in Research....
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Dear Joaquin,
is it possible to join this workshop online from India?
best regards,
Dr. Rajbir Singh
11:20 PM, 1 Mar 2010 | Permalink
Jorn Klungsoyr
Hi,
We have not thought of that, but making it available also as an online event is a very good idea!
At least the lectures etc should be possible to do this way, the hands on labs would be more problematic, but we'll see what we can do.
Best
Jørn
____________________________________________________________________________
Jorn Klungsoyr
openXdata - Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Norway
www.openxdata.org / www.cih.uib.no / www.openrosa.org / www.open-mobile.org
3:33 AM, 2 Mar 2010 | Permalink
O G
Yes,
please keep us updated.
I know of groups, volunteers and organizations to whom this would be of
vital interest.
Thank you.
8:01 AM, 2 Mar 2010 | Permalink
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