6th International Congress of Health Informatics, February 12th-16th, Havana, Cuba
(notes from  the Power Point presentation in hall  no. 8)

1. From  the “closed” to the “open” systems
    the “confined” computer

    input.....process....output
2. From the “closed” to  the “open” systems
     The “confined” computer program

    Entrada
    Program
    Datum

3. From the”closed” to the “open” systems (figures 1-10)

11. Opening indicators
    Isolated systems – “confined” systems

•    Operation in Internet – Web
•    Data-programs-presentation of data- server-client- multilingual presentation....
•    Patterns – terminology- XML – Web Services
•    Co-operation networks – national-regional-global
•    Co-operation spaces –learning and informed environments

12.  Health information system domains

•    Demographic/ epidemiological data
•    Health systems and services
•    Hospital automation – medical information – bioinformatics- telemedicine-telehealth.
•    Scientific communication – publication- indexing- bibliometrics- scientometrics –libraries –scientific dissemination-communication-promotion-education.

13.  Opening indicators
•    Isolated systems  - “confined” systems
•    Operation in Internet – Web
•    Data – programs –presentation of data- multilingual server-client-presentation
•    Patterns – terminology – XML –Web services
•    Co-operation networks – national- regional-global
•    Co-operation spaces – learning and informed environments.

14.  Spaces of information sources as national, regional and global public goods produced and used by all the countries (Global Health Library, ScienTI, Scielo, Virtual Library of Health).

15. Virtual Library of Health (VLH) model works in three dimensions:
     network of institutions and individuals
producers, mediators and users of scientific and technical information from national research, education and care systems that converge in the VLH space and operates networks of information sources and flows in Internet-Web based
on decentralized collections and
space of public goods, giving privilege to open access.
□ Space of public goods □
development of learning and informed environments, with operation of local Information flows connected to the VLH space.

16.  Levels that interoperate in network:
•    Geographical ..... country, subregion, region >> > global   local
•    Thematic .....country, subregion, region >>> global portals
•    Institutional contexts

18.  Structure of indexing of two health science publications of AL&C 2004, BIREME/OPAS/WHO.

•    ISI- JCR 28 MEDLINE 65
•    SciELO 141
•    LILACS 690
•    Total 1000-1500

43.  September 2005,  El Salvador Statement on open access: the developing countries´ perspective   October 2003

Berlin Declaration on Open Acces to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
2003 jun Bethesda Statement on Open Acces Publishing 2002 feb Budapest Open Acces Initíative

45. Fulfilled objectives

SciELO is among the 10 main sources of answers of Google Scholar clicked by users.

47. Enter Alexa online --- see regional VLH, Infomed, SciELO, etc.

48. Albert-Lászlo Barabási – Linked: The new science of networks
      the complex network of Web continues growing.

 “ With over a billion of documents available today, it is hard to believe the Web emerged one node at a time.   
 But it did. Barely a decade ago it had only one node, Tim Barnes-Lee’s famous first Webpage. 
    “ ... we find that real networks are governed by two laws: growth and preferential attachment. “
    “ In real networks linking is never random. Instead popularity is attractive. Webpages with more links are more likely to be linked to again .... “

49.  Albert-László Barabási – Linked: The new science of networks
  The complex network of Web – links are distributed according to 80/20 ratio or a power law distribution.  y=axK
It shows graph of link numbers vs node numbers

52.  Action lines for management and development of Learning and Informed Environments in the VLH context
man-friendly environment that encourages mutal confidence and appropriation of history, culture and mission of the organization.
•    On-line operation of scientific, technical and factual information sources
•    Communication, virtual communities and practical communities


•    Human resource development program as a priority in e-learning processes and oriented to increasing action capacities of collaborators.

55. Health information system domains

•    Demographic/ epidemiological data
•    Health systems and services
•    Hospital automation – medical information – bioinformatics- telemedicine- telehealth
•    Scientific communication – publication –indexing – bibliometrics- scienciometrics – libraries – scientific dissemination- communication-promotion
•    Education

56.    From the “closed” to the “open” systems

Opening indicators
    Co-operation spaces – learning and informed environments
•    Isolated systems  - “confined”
•    Operation in Internet – Web
•    Data – programs –presentation
•    data- server-client - presentation  □  multilingual
•    Patterns – terminology – XML –Web services
•    Co-operation networks – national – regional - global