OpenEMR is now meaningful use certified. Congratulations to the OpenEMR team!! -FT […]
Practical collaborative document writing for patient communities
Hi, I have a lot of experience with collaborative document writing, and now, in my role with Cautious Patient Foundation, I have been providing technical help to several patient communities. I helped write the security standards for the NWHIN Direct project and I am currently working with the e-patient/QS community to create a document detailing […]
Using HTML5 as the basis for HL7 CDA v3
Keith Boone, well known and liked Health IT standards geek has written up a proposal that would make the next release of HL7 CDA based on HTML5 rather than XHTML. I have just become more deeply familiar with this set of standards as the result of the extensive research I have done on my new […]
Unethical Blue Button Contest
This contest is deeply problematic. The blue button initiative was a good initiative because it allowed greater access. It made that possible by ensuring that access to patient data did not have to wait for the VA/DOD/Whatever to create a download that conformed to the still-forming XML standards that make true interoperability possible. But now […]
QR code stencil upmanship
As far as I know, I was the first person to publish a generalizable method for creating a QR code stencil or to even clearly document why such a method was difficult. However, since that time, I have realized that other approaches would ultimately be superior. The two I have been pursuing are automated embroidery […]
Radar Interview
Hi, I have an interview up at O’Reilly Radar, talking about programmable self. I am also quoted in a Forbes article about Google Health. Busy week. -FT […]
WorldVista Meaningful Use Certified
Not sure why this was not formally annouced, but I was just doing some last minute fact-checking on my new health IT book, and I discovered that WorldVista EHR is a meaningful use certified product. This is quite an accomplishment, and I am somewhat surprised that WorldVistA has not had an announcement about this. This […]
Sharks, Bees and Privacy
Hi, I am happy to announce that my new article on healthcare privacy and interoperability has been accepted in the Journal of Participatory Medicine. I am not against privacy in healthcare, but I am against the notion that privacy concerns should trump issues relating to good healthcare. You can read the full article here: http://www.jopm.org/opinion/commentary/2011/07/05/sharks-bees-and-health-privacy-paranoia/ […]
Google Health: influential, controversial and gone.
Google Health is no more. Thats a shame, because I am writing a book on Health IT for O’Reilly and before this announcement, my rough draft featured Google Health extensively. I guess this is better, though, than having Google Health shut down just -after- I finished writing my book. Of course, I am going to […]
Google Health is dead, HealthVault Indivo win
Recently, Google announce that the Google Health PHR will be retiring. I posted the announcement to the Society for Participatory Medicine mailing list, and there has been alot of discussion about this, there. There are several issues that lots of people do not seem to understand, and some implications of this that have been missed. […]