Fred Trotter

          For those who do not follow ancient history (more than 2 years on the Internet) of the Free and Open Source health software movement, I got my start with FreeB, which was the first GPL medical billing engine. It was designed to help address the medical bill formatting problem. If you are not sure […]

There are more and more examples of how standard hacking techniques apply in healthcare, with serious consequences. Recent issues include RFID hacking and interference issues.
Recently, a talk at BlackHat regarding hacking medical devices, including pacemakers, has begun appearing in popular blogs.
What is most dangerous about this is not actually the hack itself, but the fact […]

VistA is a robust and complete EHR system, but it relies on MUMPS. This makes VistA extremely expensive to configure and maintain.
The open source web-based EHR systems are easy to deploy but have underwhelming feature sets.
The holy grail of open source Health Informatics is a web-based CPRS (CPRS is the frontend for VistA).
It would be […]

Here is an interesting post about a person who was locked out of their google account.
Apparently, this person lost access to:

Google Docs
Gmail
Family photos in Picasa

If you read the updated post, you will find that he has already gotten back in.
But this person knew to write a blog post. And knew how to get it covered […]

Apparently, the people at Medsphere still read my posts.
Mike Doyle noticed my comment that I had not meet him in my last post, and he made an appointment to have a phone call with me.
I just got off the phone with him and… I was impressed. He seemed willing to reach out to the community […]