The meeting with CCHIT worked. The FOSS community, to the degree that such a thing is possible, had authorized me to go nuclear on the issue before the meeting. I had been given assurance that the community has been so frustrated with dealing with CCHIT that if they did not work with us that if […]
MOSS Misys Open Source Solutions
MOSS (Misys Open Source Solutions) has come into it’s own as a force both within FOSS and within it’s chosen domain of interoperability. MOSS is led by Tim Elwell and Alesha Adamson, they could often be found at the interoperability showcase where they performed as one of the few PIX/PDQ services. At this conference especially […]
Codapedia launched
I heard about codapedia during my annual tour of the floor looking for FOSS-related projects that I had not heard about before. www.codapedia.com is among a new breed of ‘medical wikis’, designed to support the concepts of group editing like a standard wiki, but also to be more reliable and authoritative. The corelations to medpedia […]
Medsphere bus
This is simply the -best- publicity stunt that any FOSS EHR vendor has done yet. Last year Cerner decided not to return to the HIMSS show-room floor. Instead they decided to subversively bring in thier massive traveling booth. This is a converted semi truck that obviously cost a small fortune. It is obvious that the […]
CCHIT vs FOSS pre-meeting issues
I am preparing for the meeting tomorrow with CCHIT and FOSS. I had previously used Google Moderator to get a feel for what my communities position on this issue is. Moderator allows for the same question to get posted again and again, so often the same idea was represented twice. So ignoring duplicates and ideas […]
HIMSS09 day 2: Interview with Vish Sankaran
Today I meet with Vish Sankaran, whose official title is ‘Program Director Federal Health Architecture’ from what I can tell, that post is just as important as it sounds. Vish was, along with representatives of several major federal agencies, presenting the new NHIN open source infrastructure project called Connect. We have been waiting patiently to […]
HIMSS09 day 2: Kolonder on Health IT
Dr. Robert Kolodner is not only the outgoing National Coordinator but a card carrying member of the underground railroad. He is a founding father of VA VistA. He intimately understands what VistA is and where it came from and the implications thereof. His talk is generally about how he plans on extending the VA quality. […]
HIMSS day1: Medsphere
This is the first article I am writing from HIMSS09. I am here on a press pass provided by LinuxMedNews. I am focusing on FOSS here at HIMSS. I am, by tribal law, required to make a certain amount of Star Wars analogies when blogging and I recently categorized HIMSS as “the empire” with regards […]
What should we cover at the CCHIT/FOSS meeting?
To help answer this question I have setup a Google Moderator site. Please help the FOSS community determine what our positon regarding CCHIT should be!! -FT […]
CCHIT to meet with FOSS community
Recently, I was asked by several community members to begin ‘activating’ the community at large against certain threats to FOSS in healthcare. Dr. Valdes and I have been planning on doing this for years, and, in our own ways, have both begun to attempt to make the public aware of the issues that our community […]