Here is my submission for the Local Children’s Data Health 2.0 developer challenge. The challenge was to make data available through kidsdata.org come alive. Generally, the red circles correspond to the percentage of child allergy suffers who had -seen- a doctor, but had no specific plan to address their condition. The red tags, are healthcare […]
Calorie counting by taking a photo of food
Is apparently now possible with Meal Snap. […]
RPMS is certified
RPMS, the VistA cousin run by the Indian Health Services has received ambulatory and inpatient meaningful use certification. RPMS is substantially available under FOIA, (there are some proprietary components required to emulate the certified stack, I believe) and is the first Open Source stack that I know of to be certified as both inpatient and […]
Correcting Information Asymmetry for patients
Consumer reports is invaluable tool for the purchase of almost anything. Anytime I am considering a major purchase like a car, or perhaps expensive electronics, I always by temporary access to consumerreports.org. While the Consumer Reports magazine can be interesting to browse, the website is even more valuable. You can access any recent product review […]
Two other Open Source EHRs Meaningful Use certified (partially)
I just found out that at least two other Open Source projects have been meaningful use certified. OpenEMR has been partially certified. Medspheres OpenVistA CareVue has been certified. I hope to get more information about exactly what the partial certification means and what the meaningful use strategies of these organizations mean, but this means that […]
QR code stencils, the problem
I love QR codes. I think the notion of simple graphical URLs is beautiful and elegant. If my wife were a graphical data object, I think she would be a 2D QR code. Think of it, you can put links anywhere you want, in the real world! You can put them on tshirts, coffee mugs, […]
Glen Tullman presents the Chewbacca defense
I have been meaning to write about this for a while. Glen Tullman and I have pretty different opinions about Health IT. Glen is the CEO of Allscripts, which is the largest proprietary EHR vendor in the country. When ONC called for testimony for the definition of meaningful use, Glen and I sat on the […]
ClearHealth, the first Open Source EHR Meaningful Use certified
I am happy to report (a little late) that ClearHealth is now the first commercial Open Source EHR product to be meaningful use certified. This project holds a special place in my heart, since David Uhlman and I started it years ago as next generation PHP-based Open Source EHR. It is theoretically possible that some […]
Direct gathers steam
Recently, the AAFP and Surescripts announced Physicians Direct, a secure messaging service for providers. But neither the article nor the signup page for Physicians Direct detail the most critical single issue regarding the service. This is a very large deployment of the Direct Project. This is by far the most important part of the story, […]
Thinking about commitment contracts
Commitment contracts are a way of limiting and shaping your own behavior. If you know that your “future self” (a useful Behavioral Economics concept) is going to be weak willed, you can make a commitment that limits your future behavior to do the “right” thing. The classic example that everyone always uses of this is […]