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Moving to the open health-care graph
June 04 2013
To achieve the the triple aim in healthcare (better, cheaper, and safer), we are going to need intensive monitoring and measurement of specific doctors, hospitals, labs and countless other clinical professionals and clinical organizations. We need specific data and specific … read moreHow crowdfunding and the JOBS Act will shape open source companies
March 28 2013
Currently, anyone can crowdfund products, projects, causes, and sometimes debt. Current U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations make crowdfunding companies (i.e. selling stocks rather than products on crowdfund platforms) illegal. The only way to sell stocks to the public at large … read morePreferred structures for cleaned-up doctor data
January 18 2013
The DocGraph project has an interesting issue that I think will become a common one as the open data movement continues. For those that have not been keeping up, DocGraph was announced at Strata RX, described carefully on this blog, … read moreDocGraph: Open social doctor data
November 18 2012
At Strata RX in October I announced the availability of DocGraph. This is the first project of NotOnly Development, which is a Not Only For Profit Health IT micro-incubator. The DocGraph dataset shows how doctors, hospitals, laboratories and other health … read moreThe Direct Project has teeth, but it needs pseudonymity
August 24 2012
Yesterday, Meaningful Use Stage 2 was released. You can read the final rule here and you can read the announcement here. As we read and parse the 900 or so pages of government-issued goodness, you can expect lots of commentary … read moreWhy microchips in pills matter
August 02 2012
Earlier this week, Proteus announced that they have been approved by the FDA to market their ingestible microchips for pills. Generally, the FDA approval process for devices that are totally new like this is a painful one, with much suffering. So … read moreJune 06 2012
Patients, doctors and providers have a unique set of privileges that do not line up exactly with a traditional concept of ownership. read morePrinciples of patient access in Directed Exchange
May 06 2012
In this digital world, health data that's 36-hours old can only be analyzed as a post-mortem. Health data that's 30-days old is already rotting. read moreMarch 15 2012
Fred Trotter has often said the problems in health IT are political and not technical, but sometimes a picture can drive a point home better than words. read moreFebruary 24 2012
Jim Langabeer, CEO of Greater Houston Healthconnect, discusses the implementation goals and hurdles related to a Direct Project pilot program. read moreDirect Project will be required in the next version of Meaningful Use
February 23 2012
Given the way that healthcare is financed in the U.S., it's reasonable to expect that many doctors will have a Direct email address to communicate with other doctors and their patients in a few years. read moreHIMSS asks: Who is Biz Stone and what is Twitter?
February 21 2012
As patients and practitioners gather on Twitter, the service has evolved into a peer-to-peer healthcare marketplace. That's why Twitter co-founder Biz Stone's keynote at HIMSS is so fitting. read moreAI will eventually drive healthcare, but not anytime soon
January 25 2012
People will eventually get better care from artificial intelligence, but for now, we should keep the algorithms focused on the data that we know is good and keep the doctors focused on the patients. read moreJanuary 11 2012
Taking a cue from the Quantified Self movement, the programmable self is the combination of a digital motivation hack with a digital system that tracks behavior. Here's a look at companies and projects relevant to the programmable self space. read moreJanuary 10 2012
Clinicians often encounter multi-step software processes that seem laborious. Sometimes that's due to a design flaw, but other times that process has been intentionally constructed as a crumple zone. read moreJanuary 09 2012
As a society, we need to get comfortable with the notion that Electronic Healthcare Records will both help and hurt people. On balance, they will do far more good than harm. read moreEpatients: The hackers of the healthcare world
January 05 2012
The epatient community uses digital tools and the connective power of the Internet to empower patients. Here, Fred Trotter offers epatient resources and first steps. read moreThe Transportation Security Administration's QR code flub
January 03 2012
Fred Trotter discovers that a QR code embedded in a TSA poster at the Orlando airport links to justinsomnia.org, which is about as far as you can get from a government website. read moreWhy developers should enter health IT contests
November 04 2011
Working on software that addresses patient safety issues is one of the few ways that a software developer can impact quality of life rather than convenience of life. Health contests are fun enough that you might even forget that you're changing the world. read moreWhy geeks should care about meaningful use and ACOs
October 21 2011
Clinical people tend to focus on meaningful use incentives as "how do I get paid to install an EHR." But geeks can see the bottom line: healthcare reform is pointless unless we get the measurement issue right. read moreOSEHRA's first challenge: VistA version control
October 20 2011
Veteran Affairs' VistA electronic health record system is famously resistant to being managed by version control. That needs to improve if VistA development is to be run as a meritocracy. read moreOSEHRA and the future of VA VistA
October 19 2011
Veterans Affairs is taking the bold step of making governance of the VistA system open source. If you care about healthcare software, the new Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) is worth your involvement. read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
Webcast: 6 New Year Resolutions for Health IT
January 17, 2012
Ready to take your IT skills to the healthcare industry? Join Fred Trotter and David Uhlman, authors of Meaningful Use as they share their unique takes on some crucial topics for 2012 that include: Illustrative anecdotes of unanticipated consequences...
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