The original Hipoocratic Oath states: I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work. One modern version reads: I will not be ashamed to say “I know not,” nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills […]
Category: Meaningful Use
OpenEMR is meaningful use certified
OpenEMR is now meaningful use certified. Congratulations to the OpenEMR team!! -FT […]
Using HTML5 as the basis for HL7 CDA v3
Keith Boone, well known and liked Health IT standards geek has written up a proposal that would make the next release of HL7 CDA based on HTML5 rather than XHTML. I have just become more deeply familiar with this set of standards as the result of the extensive research I have done on my new […]
Unethical Blue Button Contest
This contest is deeply problematic. The blue button initiative was a good initiative because it allowed greater access. It made that possible by ensuring that access to patient data did not have to wait for the VA/DOD/Whatever to create a download that conformed to the still-forming XML standards that make true interoperability possible. But now […]
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 […]
Medsphere OpenVistA meaningful use certified
I am happy to mention that Medsphere has received certification for their OpenVistA EHR system. As far as I know, this is the only meaningful use certification for Open Source software, for the in-patient setting. All of the other certifications that I have mentioned so far have been ambulatory. Congratulations to the Medsphere team. This […]
ClearHealth, the first Open Source EHR Meaningful Use certified
I am happy to report (a little late) that ClearHealth is now the first commercial Open Source EHR product to be meaningful use certified. This project holds a special place in my heart, since David Uhlman and I started it years ago as next generation PHP-based Open Source EHR. It is theoretically possible that some […]
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, […]
Kaiser Ontology Interview
To the novice, the term “interoperability” means that two systems can talk. To the expert, it means that they can understand each other. To much of our current data interchange is “meaning poor”. To get past that problem, we need to do lots of work with ontologies, which, loosely put, are knowledge dictionaries. Most clinicians […]
Health Internet
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 […]