I wanted to republish a post that I made to emrupdate here. This was in response to a person who wants to help a doctor with what amounts to a super-simple note-keeping system for her nursing home patients. I should note that I think the mashups of technology that this person is suggesting is pretty […]
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Public Funded Microsoft-Only Hospital
God this kind of thing pisses me off. […]
How far we have not come
I meet Dr. Koppel at the last Indivo X meeting at Harvard. After hearing about his work I realized… this man must be the one of the saddest people in the industry, it is basically his job to study the interface between people and EHR systems. He is the guy who documents just exactly how […]
Many Eyeballs Actually Looking: Microsoft’s Shawn Hernan responds
One of the things that I love about blogging is that it often puts you directly touch with those people who are influencing your thinking. This is just what happened when Microsofts Shawn Hernan sent me an email response to my recent blog post about the security of Open Source Healthcare Software. As it turns […]
Security Reviews in Open Source Health Software
Recently, Shawn Hernan wrote a piece on Microsoft’s security blog that argues that the “many eyeballs’ effect does not ensure that open source software is secure. His argument is excellent and while I disagree somewhat with his conclusions, his point is undeniable. his argument, if it can be boiled down to a quote is: The […]
Basically a bad deal
Emma Schwartz is an serious investigative reporter who now works for the Huffington Post She has taken an interest in covering Electronic Healh Record issues and has started to reveal just how problematic this industry is. Her most recent article, Doctors Get Buyers Remorse, is her best yet. She has uncovered not one but several […]
Hello World with Indivo X
Ben Adida the project manager for the Indivo X project has announced the first public code drop of Indivo X on the Indivo developers mailing list, two days ago. Since then I have been spinning up a Rackspace Cloud instance to see if I could get it up and running. I do not yet have […]
Cloud + VistA = Astronaut Shuttle
I am not sure how many people out there have tried Astronaut Shuttle yet. First, let me get the caveats out of the way. Ignacio Valdes, the CEO of Astronaut (the company) hired me to do most of the cloud related work on shuttle. So I am financially biased on this. I chose to take […]
To Senator Grassely on EHR problems
Senator Chuck Grassely has sent out some letters to several proprietary EHR vendors asking some pretty direct questions. Here is the relevant excerpts. Over the past year, I have received complaints from patients, medical practitioners and technologies engineers regarding difficulties they have encountered with the HIT and CPOE devices in their medical facilities. These complaints […]
Hardware Hack: Hacking the ICE Medical ID USB wallet card
I am happy to say that I have a totally new type of post for my readers. I am going to detail how to modify to the “ICE Medical ID” product to be relevant for those of use who do not want to be stuck crappy proprietary software. This only barely qualifies as hardware hacking, […]