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Joaquin Blaya, PhD

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About Joaquin Blaya, PhD
Joaquin Blaya, PhD, is currently Chief Technology Officer at eHealth Systems, an health IT implementation company, and a Research Fellow at the Brigham & Women's Hospital. His work focuses on the use of IT in improving health care in resource poor settings and in promoting the use of open source software and open standards to improve local capacity building and interoperability between information systems.

Role(s) / Profession(s)

  • Consultant
  • Researcher

Organization

  • Brigham And Women's Hospital - BWH
    Website: http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ Type: Medical Institution Country: United States About: Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is a 747-bed nonprofit teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of Partners HealthCare System, an integrated health care delivery network. BWH is committed to excellence in patient care with expertise in virtually every specialty of medicine and surgery. Through investigation and discovery conducted at its Biomedical Research Institute (BRI), BWH is an international leader in basic, clinical and translational research on human diseases, involving more than 800 physician-investigators and renowned biomedical scientists and faculty.
  • eHealth Systems
    Website: http://www.ehealthsystems.cl/ Type: For-Profit Organization Country: Chile About: Consultoría en implementación de estrategia de informatizaciónen salud y desarrollo e implantación de sistemas informáticos clínicos.
  • Harvard Medical School
    Website: http://hms.harvard.edu/hms/home.asp Type: Academic Institution Country: United States About: Harvard Medical School’s (HMS) mission is to create and nurture a diverse community of the best people committed to leadership in alleviating human suffering caused by disease. Students and more than 7,500 full-time faculty in 11 academic departments located on the School's Boston campus, in one of 47 hospital-based clinical departments at 18 Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals and research institutes, or at 30 research centers, divisions, and institutes, advance the School’s mission every day. Within HMS, the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (DGHSM) works in close collaboration with the GHD project teams, from participating in GHDonline communities to developing the GHD academic platform.
  • Partners In Health - PIH
    Website: http://www.pih.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: United States About: Partners In Health, co-founded by physicians Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim, serves millions of poor patients in nine countries, providing them with extensive health care and social services that address the root causes of poor health. By successfully proving that providing comprehensive, community-based medical care for complex diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis is not just possible but essential, the organization has helped bring about significant changes in global health policies and practices.

Work Location(s)

  • Chile

Language(s)

  • English
  • Spanish

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    Joaquin Blaya, PhD started a discussion "Fwd: [IMeCA] Curso de openEHR en español, inscripciones abiertas". in the Health IT community.

    Might be of itnerest. It's an OpenEHR course online in spanish. Joaquín ___________________________________________________________________ Gerente de Desarrollo, eHealth Systems ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pablo Pazos Date: 2013/5/17 Subject: [IMeCA] Curso de openEHR en español, inscripciones abiertas Estimados, con mucha alegría les comunico que abrimos las inscripciones a la tercera edición ...

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    Joaquin Blaya, PhD replied to "IT to enhance medical mission trips" in the Health IT community.

    Hi Brianna, I think many of the tools mobile and non-mobile mentioned in several of our discussions could be used for short-term medical trips. Like with long-term care, the reasons to choose one or the other depend on what functionality you want, technical expertise, and so on, here's a slightly ...

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    Joaquin Blaya, PhD replied to "medical record software" in the Health IT community.

    Hi Joseph, Could you give us more detail about your experience implementing OpenEMR, and how it compared to OpenMRS. I've never implemented OpenEMR and would love to hear more about it. Joaquín ___________________________________________________________________ Gerente de Desarrollo, eHealth Systems

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    Joaquin Blaya, PhD started a discussion "10 sites to teach coding". in the Health IT community.

    Not directly related to health IT, but here are 10 sites that will help you learn to program. Each program below emphasizes different pedagogical techniques and philosophies, and they are all mass market in the sense that anyone is welcome. No previous experience is necessary. http://pandodaily.com/2013/04/05/ten-websites-that-teach-coding-and-a-bunch-of-other-things/ Joaquín ___________________________________________________________________ Gerente de ...

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    Joaquin Blaya, PhD replied to "medical record software" in the Health IT community.

    For CommCare I think the best way is to email the dimagi guys since they built it. Joaquín ___________________________________________________________________ Gerente de Desarrollo, eHealth Systems

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