For whatever reason people simply do not get what the NHIN is and what its implications are. This feels like a repeat of what happened to me more than a year ago. The NHIN (which has been rebranded the “Nationwide Health Information Network” or NWHIN from “National Health Information Network” in response to these silly […]
Category: Direct Project
The Direct Project is the direct messaging component of the health internet.
NHIN at OSCON
Here are two awesome videos from the NHIN team at OSCON!! Arien Malec for NHIN Direct!! Note the shout out at the beginning 😉 David Riley from NHIN CONNECT […]
Open Letter to the tiger team
Hi, This is an open letter to the tiger team from HIT Policy Committee as well as the committee generally. Recently a group from HITPC gave recommendations to the NHIN Direct project regarding which protocol it should choose. I realized as I heard the comments there, that this group was reading the NHIN Direct Security […]
What protocol for NHIN Direct?
[Update 6-10-10: added new spectrum “False Interface Potentia” based on comment from David Tao. Added “End User Perception” based on comment from Erik Pupo. Removed controversial portions. full explanation at the end] Currently, the NHIN Direct project is having a debate around what protocol to use. NHIN Direct is supposed to enable something that “feels […]
What is NHIN Direct? (alpha)
Recently a member of the FOSS Health community wrote to me: So I’m confused by NHIN Direct. Why not simply use S/MIME or PGP email? Why five different ways of addressing people, when really only the email-address format makes sense to the average internet user? I have been pretty confused by the NHIN Direct for […]
The Power of Push
Hi, The NHIN Direct network has been criticized for lacking relevance for health information exchange. Specifically, Latanya Sweeney has submitted testimony to congress which has nothing good to say about either NHIN project. The paragraph I want to highlight says: ONC’s website also describes NHIN Direct [11] as a parallel initiative underway [3]. The idea […]
The Burden of Trust
Hi, I am a vocal participant on the NHIN Direct Security and Trust working group. Its a perfect place for me. I love Open Source healthcare, but my background was in InfoSec… and we never really forget our first love.. do we? At the NHIN Direct Security and Trust workgroup, I get to exercise all […]
NHIN-Direct leans towards HealthQuilt Security Model
My last big project, before the skunkworks project I am doing now for Cautious Patient, was as the Chief Architect at HealthQuilt. HealthQuilt was a prototype project for a Health Information Exchange in Houston T.X. hosted by UT SHIS. (Which just won the status of Regional Extension Center under ARRA . My boss at HealthQuilt, […]