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Lorca, J. et al.:PESCA: Developing an Open Source Platform to Bring eHealth to Latin America and the Caribbean

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PESCA: Developing an Open Source Platform To Bring eHealth To Latin

America and the Caribbean

Maria J. Rubiaa; Julio Lorcaa; David Santoe; Sergio Ruizd;Carlos L. Sánchezb; Miguel Romero-Cuevasa; Diego M.

Lópezc;Pedro Garcia-Forteaa; Gonzalo Arandaa; Francisco J.

Alcázarb

aFundación para la eSalud-FESALUD, SpainbConsejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa, Andalusian Government,

Málaga, SpainceHealth Competence Center, Regensburg, Germany

dRevista eSalud, SpaineUniversidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

Presented by:Andrea A. Cortinois

1. To create the infrastructure needed to support the virtual collaboration effort

2. To analyze and validate existing eHealth open source code and assess its relevance

3. To adapt OSS to local environments and across three languages: Spanish, Portuguese, and English

4. To provide overall workflow management

5. To evaluate the scalability of the platform for its progressive local and regional implementation

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PESCA: General Objectives

PESCA: Virtual Social Network

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PESCA: Social Network

•From platform for technology to platform for alliances

•Web-based platform now developed and online

•A growing network

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• http://redes.epesca.org - Social Network

• http://forja.epesca.org - Code Repository

• http://wiki.epesca.org - Wiki

• http://revistaesalud.com - Online Open Access Journal

PESCA: Links

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