The Electronic Preventative Services Selector or ePSS from AHRQ is now available as an HTML widget that you can embed in any webpage. Including this one!! […]
Meaningful Use book
The first chapters of Getting to Meaningful Use are available online for public comment. I am often surprised to meet people at conferences who say “I read your blog”. I mean, I know you read… because I have server logs to prove it…. but actually meeting someone kind of blows my mind. So if you […]
Contract to create VistA shepherd goes to newbie
I just learned, (from a modern healthcare article, of course) that the contract has been awarded to Tiag. At first blush, this news was not concerning. I am only peripherally involved in the VistA community, and there are lots of solid VistA-related contracting companies that I do not know of. It was a little surprising […]
EHR can make the paper problem worse
Once a persons record has gone electronic, it really should never go back. A paper printout of an Electronic Health Record is often huge and unwieldy. If it is printed out or faxed it creates something so huge that it is pretty impossible to be useful in a paper record. This is the reason why […]
Making QR code stencils
I have been on a quest to be a able to spray-paint QR codes, in mass production. I recently demoed my QR code stencil work at Maker Faire. The secret, in short, is chicken wire and caulk. I tried the following methods unsuccessfully: cardboard cutouts (subject to the island problem) suspending wires across a board and […]
Announcing Open Glaze
Hi, I am here at the first ever Quantified Self Conference and I am announcing a new Open Source Game Layer project called Open Glaze. Here are the basics of my Game Layer philosophy that are influencing my work on Open Glaze. This is not one monolithic system. Its a Unix software development philosophy. It […]
Programmable Self Reading List
Hi, I am preparing for my talk at Quantified Self about my work on Programmable Self. I was asked to make a “reading list” for the people who were interested in this subject so I wanted to create that here. Please add links in my comments section for titles that I have omitted!! Requirements for […]
Medsphere OpenVistA meaningful use certified
I am happy to mention that Medsphere has received certification for their OpenVistA EHR system. As far as I know, this is the only meaningful use certification for Open Source software, for the in-patient setting. All of the other certifications that I have mentioned so far have been ambulatory. Congratulations to the Medsphere team. This […]
Health Foo Camp
I am happy to announce that I have been invited to the first ever Health Foo Camp. There is not even a web-page for this yet, but it has been previously announced on the RWJF blog FOO stands for Friends of O’Reilly. It is an invitation event that puts some of the top geeks and […]
OpenMRS rocks Google Summer of Code 2011
With the following worthy projects: Atlas Module setup localization expanding coded value sources in observations message deliver from triggers database message properties module human resources module metadata sharing improved WYSIWYG improved person attribute types enhance module maven archetype enhance patient matching module general feedback mechanism messaging module universal search box LIS interoperability enabling SMART apps Very […]