Simpler Direct Directories

Alan Viars is making the case for simpler direct directories. He has allowed me to republish some of his ideas here!! A couple of weeks ago, I attended ONC’s Direct Bootcamp in Crystal City, VA. A hot topic at the two-day conference was the notion of a “Provider Directory” that incorporates Direct email addresses. I also read […]

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Sharks, Bees and Privacy

Hi, I am happy to announce that my new article on healthcare privacy and interoperability has been accepted in the Journal of Participatory Medicine. I am not against privacy in healthcare, but I am against the notion that privacy concerns should trump issues relating to good healthcare. You can read the full article here: http://www.jopm.org/opinion/commentary/2011/07/05/sharks-bees-and-health-privacy-paranoia/ […]

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Google Health: influential, controversial and gone.

Google Health is no more. Thats a shame, because I am writing a book on Health IT for O’Reilly and before this announcement, my rough draft featured Google Health extensively. I guess this is better, though, than having Google Health shut down just -after- I finished writing my book. Of course, I am going to […]

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Google Health is dead, HealthVault Indivo win

Recently, Google announce that the Google Health PHR will be retiring. I posted the announcement to the Society for Participatory Medicine mailing list, and there has been alot of discussion about this, there. There are several issues that lots of people do not seem to understand, and some implications of this that have been missed. […]

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Direct gathers steam

Recently, the AAFP and Surescripts announced Physicians Direct, a secure messaging service for providers.  But neither the article nor the signup page for Physicians Direct detail the most critical single issue regarding the service. This is a very large deployment of the Direct Project. This is by far the most important part of the story, […]

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Patient Centered Health Internet

I have recently been approached by several policy people who are interested in ensuring that the consumer/patient is at the center of the coming Health Internet. Through my work at the Cautious Patient Foundation, I have become pretty obsessed about only working on patient-centered and patient-empowering technologies. I often work on software for doctors, but […]

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Direct Project Updates

The Direct Project has a new name (formerly NHIN Direct),  a new website directproject.org and an excellent write up over on O’Reilly Radar called Healthcare communication gets an upgrade. I am also interested to see that the O’Reilly folks seem to agree with me that this new NHIN thing really should be thought of as […]

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