1st International Health Informatics Symposium

Group:

A word of caution to those who may be casting their pearls before  
swine: The sponsors of the 1st International Health Informatics  
Symposium have not presented any guidelines to protect, or even  
acknowledge, your work. Please be forewarned: Your work is yours. You  
own the fruits of your own labor (as well as your own liabilities),  
and you do not need to prove that ownership to entities who may have a  
vested interest in stealing, undermining, or preventing that ownership.

If you want to selflessly present your IP and the fruits of your labor  
to a candid world, for the betterment of science, I would suggest  
publishing your information online--away from the sole control of  
corporations that maintain every incentive to steal your work and  
claim that "they had already been working on such an idea".

I you want the entire world to bear witness to your healthcare IP for  
the betterment of mankind, I suggest opening up a discussion blog that  
can be accessed by the public--without Corporate Government censorship.

I'll be the first to post.

Any good free blogs you can recommend?

Greg
On Mar 18, 2010, at 1:39 PM, Greg Austin wrote:

> Umit:
>
> Thank you for your prompt reply.
>
> I am willing to submit this information for the purpose of  
> academics, and am even willing to teach and guide those who are  
> interested in the process I have discovered through its suggested  
> steps. However, I am neither a Principle Investigator, nor have I  
> been paid directly as an entitled instructor; instead, I am an  
> entrepreneur, an experienced clinician, usability analyst, and an  
> ECMA script interface designer. Therefore, I would get no marketable  
> rewards for describing my Intellectual Property, since I am not paid  
> to educate others while continuing my research.
>
> Nevertheless, information must be exchanged.
>
> Further, I maintain that true science itself does not care about my  
> credentials, or lack of them. I am confident that I can lead others  
> through the scientific steps necessary to create a world-class user- 
> centered healthcare informatics project. However, I again need to  
> know--what's in this for me?
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Greg
>
> On Mar 18, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Umit V. Catalyurek wrote:
>
>> Dear Greg Austin -- thanks for your interest to our conference. I  
>> don't think I'm in the position to give you legal advise but IMHO  
>> (baring in mind that I'm an academician whose first priority is  
>> publish and never filed a patent in my life :), if you have IP  
>> concerns, I think right approach is to file a patent before  
>> disclosing it (including submitting for a peer review for any  
>> conference/journal). FYI I'm cc'ying PC Co-Chairs and Honorary Chair.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Umit
>>
>>
>> On Mar 18, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Greg Austin wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Umit Catalyurek:
>>>
>>> Thank you for providing the opportunity to submit information  
>>> regarding healthcare informatics development  to the 1st  
>>> International Health Informatics Symposium.
>>>
>>> As a BayCHI member, an independent researcher and inventor, I am  
>>> interested in submitting a paper and prototypic example of the  
>>> careMerge user-centered healthcare informatics guidelines.   
>>> Revealing these guidelines may generally benefit the field of  
>>> healthcare, since I have already discovered many great facts  
>>> regarding user-centered design of healthcare informatics as the  
>>> science is applied to the actual practice of healthcare.
>>>
>>> However, I must question my own motivation to reveal this  
>>> intellectual property. I must be certain that if I reveal the  
>>> method and rationale behind the careMerge method of user-centered  
>>> design that this will indeed benefit humankind, and will not  
>>> merely be hoarded to the benefit of very few individuals through  
>>> their pre-established corporations designed to own the work of  
>>> others.
>>>
>>> This concern is not unfounded, since the fact that papers  
>>> submitted by willing participants that are intended to be revealed  
>>> to the public are to be received through the EasyChair secure  
>>> website; the fact that a secure website is being employed to  
>>> receive these papers indicates a level of control over IP not that  
>>> of the participants ourselves. If we participants submit papers  
>>> revealing our IP to an opaque secure website that is scrutinized  
>>> by corporations with everything to gain by claiming these  
>>> properties as their own, how can we be assured that this  
>>> information submitted will be properly screened, credited to those  
>>> who have done the work, and employed for the betterment of humanity?
>>>
>>> Again, thank you for the opportunity, and your anticipated  
>>> response to my concerns over submitting IP to the symposium.
>>>
>>> Greg Austin
>>> [email protected]
>>
>
> Greg Austin
> [email protected]
>
>
>

Greg Austin
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