‘ Eight of the nation’s largest technology companies, including IBM, Microsoft and Oracle, have agreed to embrace open, nonproprietary technology standards as the software building blocks for a national health information network. According to this NYT/CNET article.
Monthly Archives: January 2005
PR: Medsphere Raises $7.5 Million in Latest Round of Venture Financing
Medsphere has announced that it has rased ‘$7.5M Series B round of venture financing’. Medsphere is a company player in the increasingly broad Veterans Administration VistA community.
openEHR Foundation News
Thomas Beale, Chair of the openEHR ARB posts an openEHR status review and progress outlook for 2005 to the openEHR mailing lists.
Dear all,
Best wishes for the new year. The fact that I am saying this near the end of January is proof of how busy we are!
Future of FreeB
For several months now it has not been clear what the future of the FreeB project would be. Yesterday I spent several hours talking to David Uhlman about a new
approach to medical billing. As a result of this discussion I have
decided to hand over the reigns of FreeB development to him and his new
company, Uversa
For a good few of you, that
is really all you will care to know about this issue. FreeB development
will continue, and its main goals, to be a separate biller useful to
several projects will continue. Some of you will be curious as to why…
so that rather lengthy technical monologue follows.
Discussion about NHII on Slashdot
There is an interesting discussion on Slashdot’s front page about the NHII…
NYT: Big Tech to use Open Tech for US Healthcare
“High-Tech Alliance on Base for a Digital Health Network” by STEVE LOHR
Eight of the nation’s largest technology companies, including I.B.M., Microsoft and Oracle, have agreed to embrace open, nonproprietary technology standards as the software building blocks for a national health information network.
More at the NYT and Slashdot!
Web Demonstrations of Open Source Practice Management and EMR
Pennington Firm, LLC offers free web demonstrations of OpenEMR on Friday, January 28, 2005 and Wednesday, February 2, 2005. OpenEMR is a free, open source practice management, EMR, prescription writing and medical billing application.
The 45 minute web demonstration of OpenEMR’s practice management and electronic medical record features will illustrate:
PHIELD – Publc Health Integration and Exchange of Lab Data
The PHIELD PROJECT (Public Health Integration & Exchange of Lab Data), an open source project is focused on a cost effective solution to delivering laboratory data of public health significance to the appropriate legal jurisdictions. The PHIELD project implemented a first generation solution by developing an end-to-end model comprised of Open Source software and documentation for filtering and reporting from a local LIS to the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) implementation in Nebraska utilizing the Public Health Information Network (PHIN) architected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
PR: Open Source Stem Cell R&D
U.S. BioDefense to Launch Open Source Platform for Rapid Stem Cell Research and Development. Read on for the complete announcement.
City of Industry, CA � January 21, 2005 – U.S. BioDefense, Inc. (OTCBB: UBDF) announced today that it is developing an Open Source Stem Cell Research Platform to leverage the distributed power of open source development. The Open Source Stem Cell Research Platform will allow researchers at Universities, Government Agencies, and Fortune 500 companies to read, distribute, modify and contribute to stem cell and biotechnology research in an efficient and streamlined method. The platform which can be used as an Intranet or online will provide access to bioinformatic tools and serve as a robust utility for the rapid evolution of Stem Cell technology research, development, and commercialization.
Washington Monthly: The Best Care Anywhere
This is an in-depth, eye opening article that discusses the Veterans Administration (VA) healthcare system and its ascent to the highest quality healthcare system, both public and private, available in the US. Prominently featured is the public-domain VistA software system and how integral it is to improving healthcare quality. It contrasts the VA with what is available in the public sector and finding the public sector lacking. Thanks to Francis Gilbert for this link.