I am very honored to be selected for the Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force. Of course I have my “patient access beats pointless security” ax to grind, but I will be on my best behavior and try not to screw this up. (update June 19 2015: I am reddit user ftrotter and I am on twitter […]
Hacking on the Wikipedia APIs for Health Tech
Recently I wrote about my work hacking on the PubMed API. Which I hope is helpful to people. Now I will cover some of the revelations I have had working with DocGraph on the Wikipedia APIs. This article will presume some knowledge of the basic structure of open medical data sets, but we have recently […]
Susannah Fox is the new CTO of HHS
I am not actually sure that anybody reads this blog. I suppose they must, that is really the magic of RSS… letting you know when your friends blog… right?? Still. If you wanted to actually follow what I am doing you should probably be reading the DocGraph Blog, or the CareSet Blog, or the OpenSourceHealth […]
Does Epic resist or support interoperability? Hell if I know.
I just realized that my somewhat infamous question at the ONC annual meeting is recorded on video! The background on my question, which I made me very popular at the meeting afterwards, was that I had heard that Epic hired a lobbyist to convince congress that it is an interoperable company. That lobbyist and others at […]
Libel and Discourse in the Digital Age
Libel, like copyright, is one of the central legal frameworks for governing online activities. It sets the bounds for what can and cannot be said about people in the new media area. Like copyright law, libel law is a legal framework designed in a pre-digital era, that is somewhat strained in this new digital media […]
Hacking on the Pubmed API
The pubmed API is pretty convoluted. Every time I try to use it, I have to try and relearn it from scratch. Generally, I want to get JSON data about an article, using its PubMED ID and I want to do searches programmatically… These are pretty basic and pretty common goals… The PubMED api is […]
Healthcare IT reading list
My Programmable Self Behavior Change Reading list has been one of my most popular posts. I still think any Health IT expert should be well-versed in behavior change science, since so many healthcare issues boil down to behavior change problems… either for patients or providers or both. But the other day, I was having drinks […]
EHR Vulnerability Reporting issues
For those who actually bother to read to the bottom of my bio, I was actually in Internet Security before going into Health IT. I spoke at DefCon and everything. During my career in Health IT I have had to report a security vulnerability to an EHR developer once, and it was such a painful […]
How to submit prior art on the Medicity Direct Patent
Recently Medicity has tried to patent the concept of a HISP. Please join me in submitting prior art to prevent this undermining of everything that the Direct Project stands for. Groklaw shows the way Here is a specific page that I had some trouble with and the right answers for it… The Patent number in […]
Interviewed on washingtonpost.com wonkblog
I did an interview with Ezra Klein about healthcare.gov that is now up on the washington post wonkblog. There are some interesting comments there that I will probably respond to eventually… -FT […]