Today, Farrin Anne ‘Crane’ Gustafson, the manager of the social media strategy for the Clayton Trotter (my father) congressional campaign became the first person in history to use Facebook Places to check-in to a new kind of application: a social election game. She earned the “At the Voting” badge by checking-in using Facebook Places as she […]
How to add a new place to Facebook places
Soon, I will be making an announcement about some work that I have been doing with the Facebook places API. For now, I want to give a little tutorial on how to create a new place, in Facebook places, using your iphone Facebook app. First, you have to download the facebook application from iTunes, or […]
MirrorMed, Medical Manager and mm2mm
So originally MirrorMed was a fork of ClearHealth. It was done to satisfy my need to get certain features done… but now ClearHealth has moved far past it… the usefulness of the “fork” part of this has diminished to nothing. Still there were a few useful things in MirrorMed that have not been replicated in […]
betting on quantified self
So I lost the Health Developer challenge to ringful. But they had a pretty good app, so there is no shame in that. More importantly, I think I really made people think. Steven Downs of project health design, said this about toeleven.org: However, instead of using Google Health or HealthVault as a platform, Fred used […]
Kaiser donates ontology to Open Source
Really cool, and I love that they made a video. But if you want to understand the meat of the story, better to read this Halamka post. […]
My Health2.0 submission goes to eleven
I decided to enter the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge. My submission is toeleven.org My goal was to find a way meet one of the challenges using some kind of integration with our new Audio PHR system Your Doctors Advice. (At the time of the writing its in a closed beta… you can sign in, but […]
Why I am supporting my father for congress
My father, Clayton Trotter, is running for congress in San Antonio, T.X. He has won the Republican Nomination against incumbent Democrat Gonzalez. He has the support of the local Tea Party. My father is a true conservative both socially and fiscally. A federalist in the tradition of Ron Paul. My personal opinions often go against […]
Personal Science
Recently I have been approached by a clinic in Austin that operates under the assumption that there is a causal relationship between childhood vaccinations and autism. This will not the first foray into the thick of bio-ethical debates. I have, in the past, advised both planned parenthood and catholic clinics on how to use open […]
VistA modernization must use MUMPS
Once more, the debate about “whether” to migrate VistA from MUMPS has come up again in main stream press. This always makes me sad because it shows just how fundamentally ignorant people are of what VistA is. So lets get something straight. If you are not using MUMPS, in some form or fashion, it is […]
Prior Art for the BillingNetwork Patent Troll
I am saddened that the supreme court decided not to address the software patent problem with Bilski. They had an opportunity to abolish or at least reign-in software patents, which are an inherently bad idea. Instead they undid what little progress had been made in the Bilski precedent. I think others have already more eloquently […]