Fred Trotter

Medsphere, and the Shreeve Tragedy have left me a little jaded. I have little patience for those who threaten the health FOSS community. Believe it or not, I rarely allow my aggression to turn public. I can think of at least 5 friendships with current FOSS community members, that began with rather nasty emails originating […]

For those that do not know, I am blogging HIMSS 08 for LinuxMedNews. I will be posting on anything that is relevant to FOSS that happens here. I did not have to wait long. One of the first talks covered the use of FOSS in medical imaging, something that I knew little about until Dr. […]

What I have read this morning almost made me choke on my cheerios.
Neil Versel (one of the most in-the-loop Health IT journalist I know) turned me on to a blog post from Sean Nolan, that I obviously did not want to miss. The post, aptly titled Opening up the Vault revealed several important claims:

Microsoft […]

Michael Zimmer, a new media commentator and blogger, that I had not heard of before now has gotten access to the HealthVault team. He just wrote a new post called “Designing for Privacy: Microsoft HealthVault” that is worth reading from start to finish.
There are several interesting things about his post. First, he details several specific […]

I was heavily quoted in a recent article in Government Health IT entitled VA’s health IT gamble. In it, I present the case that the current IT centralization efforts within the VA are damaging to VistA and therefore the VA’s ability to deliver quality care. From the article:
“Historically, each hospital hired programmers […]