Hi, OSCON has just published my health of the source talk from OSCON 2010! My slides got a little mixed up, so my delivery is a little scattered, but I hit all of the points I wanted to, just in the wrong order… […]
Save Google Wave for Health IT
As most of you know Google has pulled the plug on the Google Wave project. Hemant Shah has made the great case for the use of Google Wave in Healthcare IT. He is right. Google committed to releasing the code as Open Source and at a minimum it should keep that commitment. Please support Hemant […]
On Internet Marketing
Recently I have had several people who have asked me for advice and council on how to do Internet Marketing. It looks like my day job is considering taking the plunge as well. As a blogger, I know an opportunity to kill two birds with one blog post when I see one. So here are […]
You might be a cyborg….
People often do not get why I am so convinced that only GPL Software should be used in Medicine. I can understand why. Without understanding the nature of Healthcare, people assume that I am being religious about the issue. This is the furthest thing from the truth. It has been a while since I have […]
NHIN at OSCON
Here are two awesome videos from the NHIN team at OSCON!! Arien Malec for NHIN Direct!! Note the shout out at the beginning 😉 David Riley from NHIN CONNECT […]
Funambol in healthcare
One of the things that I love about conferences like OSCON is that you met people who are doing really interesting things coming out of left field. I often feel like I “know everyone” in Open Source healthcare, but every time I hear about something like this I am reminded just how big the world […]
OpenStack and Software Freedom in Healthcare IT
As clinicians, doctors and other healthcare providers are the stewards of their patients data. But what happens when they lose control over that healthcare data? Most people focus on what happens when that private data becomes too available. But far more commonly healthcare data becomes trapped. Far too often, it becomes buried in one way […]
NHIN and others at OSCON
I am just home from the first ever amazing health IT track at OSCON. The quality of the content is simply amazing, and soon, you will be able to see the many talks available (thanks to Robert Wood Johnson for paying for the videos) As I think about what I will be blogging about, I […]
Tolven invited to privacy party
The Open Source Tolven project has been invited to the Privacy Technology showcase for the HITPC S&P Tiger team. This is well-deserved recognition. Tolven has an extremely innovative architecture, that dispenses with many of the bad assumptions that other EHR platforms make. The first is that an EHR platform should only be an EHR platform. […]
NPI data, the doctors social network
(Update Feb 18 2011: search.npidentify.com has moved to docnpi.com, I have adjusted links accordingly) I have been working, part time, on a project for nearly two years to dramatically improve the quality and depth of information that is available on the Internet from the NPI database. For those not familiar, NPI or national provider identifier, […]