For those who actually bother to read to the bottom of my bio, I was actually in Internet Security before going into Health IT. I spoke at DefCon and everything. During my career in Health IT I have had to report a security vulnerability to an EHR developer once, and it was such a painful […]
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How to submit prior art on the Medicity Direct Patent
Recently Medicity has tried to patent the concept of a HISP. Please join me in submitting prior art to prevent this undermining of everything that the Direct Project stands for. Groklaw shows the way Here is a specific page that I had some trouble with and the right answers for it… The Patent number in […]
Interviewed on washingtonpost.com wonkblog
I did an interview with Ezra Klein about healthcare.gov that is now up on the washington post wonkblog. There are some interesting comments there that I will probably respond to eventually… -FT […]
About to have a call with the National Health Service
I am about to have a call with a group of people who work with the UK National Health Service. I know for a fact that the people on the call are doing serious, thoughtful work on behalf of their government. In contrast, my government just started paying the electricity bill again. It is fairly […]
Two important dates
There are two events coming up soon that you do not want to miss. The first is not this weekend but next: The Houston Health 2.0 codeathon is happening (March 23-24 at Platform in Rice Village) The second is Health::Refactored from the Health 2.0 conference series. That happens on May 13-14 in Mountain View, CA. […]
Walking Gallery seeks crowdfunding
I just wanted my readers to know (I do have readers… don’t I ) that Regina Holiday is hosting a crowdfunding event on medstartr It is the cheapest way I know of to get a copy of an original from Regina. -FT […]
OCR refuses FOIA request
Joe Conn, one of the best Health IT reporters I know, has been denied FOIA access to breach data reported to the Office of Civil Rights. Honoring FOIA requests is a critical part of how the people ensure that the government is not abusing its power. That might sound paranoid, but blanket rejections like this […]
Steve Jobs is dead. Long live Steve Jobs.
Today, Steve Jobs died. This blog post will be only one among thousands of posts devoted to his drive and his genius. Thousands will celebrate a technical legacy that almost no technologist can hope to replicate. The original Macintosh, those early films from Pixar, the iphone… hell I am typing this on a Macbook Pro […]
WorldVista Meaningful Use Certified
Not sure why this was not formally annouced, but I was just doing some last minute fact-checking on my new health IT book, and I discovered that WorldVista EHR is a meaningful use certified product. This is quite an accomplishment, and I am somewhat surprised that WorldVistA has not had an announcement about this. This […]
ePSS preventative care recommendations widget
The Electronic Preventative Services Selector or ePSS from AHRQ is now available as an HTML widget that you can embed in any webpage. Including this one!! […]