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Posted by Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS on Wednesday July 02, @07:44PMfrom the interesting-developments dept. The Connecting California to Improve Patient Care in 2008 conference will occur on Friday July 18, 2008 -- 9:00 A.M. to 4:15 P.M. Ukiah Valley Conference Center, 200 S. School St., Ukiah, California Conference Cost - $35 (includes lunch). This looks like one of those small conferences that end up becoming very important. Read More... Submit this to FSDaily!
Posted by Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS on Saturday June 28, @10:08PMfrom the interesting-developments dept. Alberto Borges, MD writes in with news that a major Health IT bill is up for approval in Congress and that Cerner spent $180,000 in lobbying the government in the 1st quarter alone. Might the passage of this bill heavily favor the formation of a cartel of proprietary vendors? Dr. Borges also has a presentation from 04/2008 on many subjects, including positions or lack thereof of Presidential candidates on Health IT. Read More... Submit this to FSDaily!
Posted by Tim Elwell on Friday June 27, @11:53AMfrom the Employment Opportunities dept. In addition to a Director of Open Source Solutions, Misys is also expanding its open source development team and is searching for a Manager of Open Source Development who will lead a core group to internal developers in support of open source projects. This is a great opportunity for a seasoned OS healthcare developer with solid management experience who isn't afraid to her their hands dirty. Read More... Submit this to FSDaily! (1 comment, 4128 bytes in body)
from the dreams do come true dept. If you have followed our previous posts on an open source medications database ClearHealth you are already aware that we now operate a fully public domain data resource regarding medications for use with our ClearHealth system. We have been struggling with a way to make this available and relevant for a wide audience for use in many applications and have now completed the beginning of that effort. Considerations had to be made taking into account liability and the frequently changing nature of some of the data (daily or even hourly in some cases). The HealthCloud developer API's offer a wide range of tools to work programmatically with large and frequently changing medical data sets and have been in a private beta for some time. The first public beta is now available for our CHMED function library which offers access to medications data through REST and AJAX api's. To use HealthCloud API's you need a API KEY You can read the specifications post in our forums and we look forward to your feedback and feature requests.
Posted by Ignacio Valdes, MD on Wednesday June 25, @02:08PMfrom the OpenMRS dept. BBC news has an article on the use of OpenMRS in Africa. 'A free and simple piece of open source software is helping manage the spread of disease in developing countries. The Open Medical Record System (OpenMRS) is providing countries, such as South Africa, with an online patient medical record system...' The project leader Dr. Paul Biondich was awarded the 2007 Linux Medical Freedom Award Read More... Submit this to FSDaily!
from the dept. The EFMI (European Federation for Medical Informatics - www.efmi.org ) Special Topic Conference (STC) for 2008 will take place in London, UK on 9-11 September 2008. This EFMI Special Topic Conference (STC) will be organised by members of the IMIA and EFMI Open Source Working Groups with a focus on Open Source in European Health Care. The conference will explore the current and future issues related to open source in healthcare. In particular, there will be a focus on health records, ubiquitous computing, knowledge sharing, and current and future applications. The Conference will consist of invited plenary speakers and workshops, and is designed to actively engage the delegates. Further information in the conference web site. Read More... Submit this to FSDaily!
from the Why Don't We have a Standrds Categrory? dept. I find it interesting that we do not have a category for standards/specifications here. Maybe it is my fault for not suggesting one earlier? The linked (below) blog post by Dr. David Kibbe I think exemplifies the NIH (not invented here) syndrome and how we so often want to rewrite (misrepresent) history in the US healthcare IT industry that we should (MUST) give pause. Read More... Submit this to FSDaily! (2 comments, 1180 bytes in body)
Posted by Ignacio Valdes, MD on Friday June 20, @12:04PMfrom the interesting-developments dept. New England Journal of Medicine has the results of a study on the very low use of EHR's in primary care with NY Times take on the study. Unfortunately, the message seems to be that financial incentives to doctors for pretty much any proprietary EHR system is what is needed with no analysis or thought whatsoever of their problems vs. open source ones: '...Four percent of physicians reported having an extensive, fully functional electronic-records system, and 13% reported having a basic system. In multivariate analyses, primary care physicians and those practicing in large groups, in hospitals or medical centers, and in the western region of the United States were more likely to use electronic health records. Physicians reported positive effects of these systems on several dimensions of quality of care and high levels of satisfaction. Financial barriers were viewed as having the greatest effect on decisions about the adoption of electronic health records...' Links courtesy of John Leo Zimmer on hardhats. Read More... Submit this to FSDaily! (3 comments)
from the instant-on, access anywhere, pretty cool, eh? dept. ClearHealth is happy to announce a variety of new services for healthcare based on cloud computing that deliver instant-on, access anywhere systems. In most cases these services are powered by the Amazon.com cloud systems. These new offerings include a hosted version of ClearHealth Office, Secure Networked Backup for all healthcare systems, and high performance reporting servers. Additionally you can register to access and beta a variety of free services including our HealthCloud medications database API's and a forthcoming array of other API services at https://openid.clear-health.com. One more exciting thing, we are now an authorized sales agent for Mirth systems, call or email for special bundles and discount pricing. Read More... Submit this to FSDaily!
Posted by Ignacio Valdes, MD on Saturday June 14, @08:39AMfrom the interesting-developments dept. From the hardhats blog came this and this discussion of Cerner dissing GoogleHealth partnership as well as that Cerner's model is threatened by open-source. The next article is about Wal-Mart's impact with its retail stores and how it is a boost for eClinicalWorks and a jab for '70's technology'. I say: "Hey Wal-Mart, why don't you use and fund development of ClearHealth/MirrorMed instead?" Read More... Submit this to FSDaily! (1 comment) |
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