The first chapters of Getting to Meaningful Use are available online for public comment. I am often surprised to meet people at conferences who say “I read your blog”. I mean, I know you read… because I have server logs to prove it…. but actually meeting someone kind of blows my mind. So if you […]
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Announcing Open Glaze
Hi, I am here at the first ever Quantified Self Conference and I am announcing a new Open Source Game Layer project called Open Glaze. Here are the basics of my Game Layer philosophy that are influencing my work on Open Glaze. This is not one monolithic system. Its a Unix software development philosophy. It […]
RPMS is certified
RPMS, the VistA cousin run by the Indian Health Services has received ambulatory and inpatient meaningful use certification. RPMS is substantially available under FOIA, (there are some proprietary components required to emulate the certified stack, I believe) and is the first Open Source stack that I know of to be certified as both inpatient and […]
Correcting Information Asymmetry for patients
Consumer reports is invaluable tool for the purchase of almost anything. Anytime I am considering a major purchase like a car, or perhaps expensive electronics, I always by temporary access to consumerreports.org. While the Consumer Reports magazine can be interesting to browse, the website is even more valuable. You can access any recent product review […]
Two other Open Source EHRs Meaningful Use certified (partially)
I just found out that at least two other Open Source projects have been meaningful use certified. OpenEMR has been partially certified. Medspheres OpenVistA CareVue has been certified. I hope to get more information about exactly what the partial certification means and what the meaningful use strategies of these organizations mean, but this means that […]
Glen Tullman presents the Chewbacca defense
I have been meaning to write about this for a while. Glen Tullman and I have pretty different opinions about Health IT. Glen is the CEO of Allscripts, which is the largest proprietary EHR vendor in the country. When ONC called for testimony for the definition of meaningful use, Glen and I sat on the […]
Direct and CONNECT governance too far from technology
Hi, I have just submitted a comment to the HITPC governance working group regarding there process for making governance recommendations to ONC. I make the argument that for the most part, comments from HITPC regarding privacy and security architecture have been largely counter-productive because they fail to account for what the chosen NW-HIN (the artist […]
The ethics of weight and body fat on Twitter
Update 12-16-2010: I have just purchased a Withings scale. Indeed, as I discussed in my original article, it will only let me twitter my weight instead of my body fat. How frustrating. But, you can customize the static portion of each tweet. I will be tweeting my weight with a bit.ly link ( http://bit.ly/gS05Nz )to […]
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 […]
Checking with Facebook Places before voting
Hi, So I wrote a new facebook application that gives you credit for supporting my fathers congressional campaign. My father is running in Texas District 20 (the Alamo District), and I am writing this article as a specific guide to his supporters with iphones/ipads and facebook accounts. (If you do not have a facebook account… […]