Update: I am speaking at the 2010 OSCON. I am happy to spread the news that OSCON, probably the most important Open Source conference in the country, will have a healthcare track in 2010. Andy Oram has explained the decision to add a healthcare track to OSCON. They have asked me to help promote the […]
Category: Conferences
Lots of cool places to meet people
Away from iphone and towards a better platform analogy
As many of you know, the CHIP/Indivo/Harvard guys (who I guess I should call the ITdotHealth guys) wrote an article in the NEJM saying that we needed something like the Iphone app store in Healthcare IT. I wrote a rebuttal saying that, among other platforms, the Google android platform was a better fit. Frankly, I thought […]
Securing health applications with CACert.org
Still trying to recover from the conference last weekend. OpenEMR was out in force at the conference and we had some interesting discussions about the best way to make php applications more secure. The following code is in php but the theory applies to any electronic health record. The wonderful thing about this method is […]
ICW and Open eHealth at HIMSS 09
At this years HIMSS the Connect project kind of stole the spotlight. However, I think it is also important to remember the work of the Open eHealth Foundation which has been steadily progressing since it was announced a HIMSS 08. One of the most important members of the eHealth Foundation group is ICW, who sent […]
MOSS Misys Open Source Solutions
MOSS (Misys Open Source Solutions) has come into it’s own as a force both within FOSS and within it’s chosen domain of interoperability. MOSS is led by Tim Elwell and Alesha Adamson, they could often be found at the interoperability showcase where they performed as one of the few PIX/PDQ services. At this conference especially […]
HIMSS09 day 2: Kolonder on Health IT
Dr. Robert Kolodner is not only the outgoing National Coordinator but a card carrying member of the underground railroad. He is a founding father of VA VistA. He intimately understands what VistA is and where it came from and the implications thereof. His talk is generally about how he plans on extending the VA quality. […]
We need a conference
So I am going to run a conference. I figured this was about as bad a time as I could pick, since no one has any travel budget, and people are getting laid off left and right! However, I have been wanting to do this for long enough that I have decided to something about […]
Wikipedia weak on drug information
Reuters is covering the news that Wikipedia is missing critical information about medicines that it covers. Specifically the following results were found: (researchers) found few factual errors in their evaluation of Wikipedia entries on 80 drugs. But these entries were often missing important information, and The researchers compared Wikipedia to Medscape Drug Reference (MDR), a […]
Should CCHIT survive?
The incomparable Joseph Conn has an article up about the potential fate of CCHIT under the Obama administration. I do not believe that it should be refunded under its current form. For several reasons. First, CCHIT favours proprietary EHR business models vs FOSS EHR business models. CCHIT favours kitchen sink EHRs vs. niche EHR models. […]
HIMSS a lobby for proprietary Health IT vendors
Today, I recieved a letter in my mailbox regarding HIMSS take on the recent legislation proposed by Stark. HIMSS Stephen Lieber and Charles E. Christian, president and chairman of HIMSS respectively, write: However, HIMSS believes the legislation has negative consequences, including discounting the current efforts of “AHIC 2.0” and the development of an open source […]