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.
Potpourri: WalMart, GoogleHealth and Cerner
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?”
Cooking with Magic
While this is an advertisement for Affinity Healthcare it is a great video pointing out the virtues of collaboration and cooperation. Probably the best video I’ve seen yet for promoting open source collaborative development. Read more for the video link. I’m sure they didn’t intend for Cooking with Magic to promote open source but the analogy works!
Misys seeks new Director of Open Source Development — Healthcare
Recently, Histalk leaked that Ryan Bloom, has left his role as Director of Open Source Development — Healthcare. The post contemplates that Blooms departure might indicate that the Misys commitment to open source has waned. I got Tim Elwell’s permission to repost his thoughts from an email exchange between, him, me and Tim from Histalk. Elwell writes:
2nd ImageJ User and Developer Conference
After the successful first ImageJ User and Developer Conference in 2006, the Public Research Center Henri Tudor is currently planning the second edition of this event in Luxembourg.
HITN: Another West Virginia hospital gets Open Source EHR
Health IT News has an article Re: ‘Lakin Hospital, a long-term nursing facility operated by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, has adopted an open source electronic health record.
Sapping VistA’s Soul
HealthBeatBlog has an article on the current Veterans Affairs VistA situation: ‘In the past I’ve spoken highly of VistA, the Veteran’s Administration computerized health records system—and with good reason. VistA has a lot going for it. In 2006, it won an “Innovations in American Government Award” from Harvard. Studies show that use of VistA has improved VA productivity by 6 percent a year since national implementation was achieved in 1999. In a time of sky rocketing health care costs, VA care has become 32 percent less expensive than it was in 1996 in part thanks to VistA. The computerized system also has helped the VA reach an amazing prescription accuracy rate of over 99.997 percent. And last—but certainly not least—VistA is a flexible program that allows for much independent tinkering in the name of improvement, both by techies outside of the VA and those within the administration.
The OSHIP has Launched
The Open Source Health Information Platform (OSHIP) project is now public. It is a Python [http://www.python.org] implementation of the openEHR [http://www.openehr.org] specifications Release 1.0.1
OSHIP is not a clinical application. It is a Python framework for quickly building future-proof, inter-operable healthcare applications based on a multi-level modeling principle [http://www.openehr.org/201-OE.html] that has already been proven in implementations.
New IT Standards Org for EMR.
SEEDIE is….well, you just will have to see it for yourself. “SEEDIE, the Society for Exorbitantly Expensive and Difficult to Implement EHR’s, is a healthcare IT standards organization that is completely funded and operated by a select group of proprietary electronic health record vendors…”
Fred Trotter: Health of the Source
Fred Trotter’s TEPR Health of the Source talk is here this is a must-read: “I pretty regularly give a talk entitled “The health of the source”. The subject of the talk is everything that has happened in health FOSS, since the last time I gave the talk. Thankfully things move along fast enough that I am never short of content. You will find this article dripping with useful bias and opinion. This is not merely a list of projects but also what I think of the projects. I might be omitting your favorite project intentionally, because I think it is irrelevant, OR out of ignorance, OR because I am limiting the scope. For instance this time I did not include much on clinical research (openclinica) or imaging, since my TEPR audience might not be interested in those.”