Fred Trotter

Houston has the largest medical center in the world. I am starting a new networking group in Houston called HIT in Houston
I plan to discuss current events, and Health IT trends as they apply to Houston, T.X. Soon I hope to begin holding monthly meetings through meetup.com and I already have a Linked In Group […]

The World Healthcare Blog recently had a post that quoted a portion of a post from my HealthVault series. In the post, titled, What Will Patients Expect in the Completeness of Their Electronic Medical Records? Fred Fortin extends upon my comments about the complexity of patient privacy with some lucid questions about the implications […]

Duplication of effort is viewed as a sin in the Free and Open Source software (FOSS) development community. The whole ethos of FOSS dictates that developers should work together, sharing the improvements they make to software between them. For this reason forking, or starting a redundant project, is often viewed as an attack against the […]

Recently, VA VistA has been getting a tremendous amount of attention. Lets take a look at the recent events that highlight what VistA is and why it is important.

Mexico decides to implement VistA in many of its state run hospitals.
Medsphere gambles investment dollars on the idea that VistA can be used in private hospitals.
WorldVistA wins […]

My next article on HealthVault, does not belong here on FredTrotter.com, I am a guest blogger over on free software magazine and when I have an issue that touches on software freedom, I like to post it there (where it will be read more…)
Please enjoy HealthVault: Software Freedom and Personal Health Records
-FT

An article I wrote about Vendor Lock-in in health software has been published in the recent Fall 07 edition of EHR Scope.   From the article:
 You can fire your paint store, your dentist, your lawyer, your mechanic and even your
doctor. You can fire them for any reason. Yet you cannot fire your proprietary EHR software vendor. […]