What do about the VA crisis: the aboveground railroad

Dana has just written a new article Why are reformers destroying Veterans’ health computer system. It focuses on the disastrous centralization movement within the VA. Specifically it references Roger Maduro’s impeccably researched editorial in the Jan 2008 edition of Vista News which Roger edits. Roger and I tend to see this issue in the same […]

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HealthVault team responds to security model criticism.

In further evidence that the Microsoft HealthVault team might actually be making good on a move towards real openness. Sean Nolan has addressed some of my criticisms in a post entitled Sharing Data using HealthVault I have updated the post in question to correct the errors that I had made. However, even with the correction […]

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Dr. Janice Honeyman-Buck at HIMSS 08

For those that do not know, I am blogging HIMSS 08 for LinuxMedNews. I will be posting on anything that is relevant to FOSS that happens here. I did not have to wait long. One of the first talks covered the use of FOSS in medical imaging, something that I knew little about until Dr. […]

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HealthVault: Michael Zimmer digs deeper

Michael Zimmer, a new media commentator and blogger, that I had not heard of before now has gotten access to the HealthVault team. He just wrote a new post called “Designing for Privacy: Microsoft HealthVault” that is worth reading from start to finish. There are several interesting things about his post. First, he details several […]

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