Hi, I am happy to announce that my new article on healthcare privacy and interoperability has been accepted in the Journal of Participatory Medicine. I am not against privacy in healthcare, but I am against the notion that privacy concerns … Continued
Google Health is no more. Thats a shame, because I am writing a book on Health IT for O’Reilly and before this announcement, my rough draft featured Google Health extensively. I guess this is better, though, than having Google Health … Continued
Recently, Google announce that the Google Health PHR will be retiring. I posted the announcement to the Society for Participatory Medicine mailing list, and there has been alot of discussion about this, there. There are several issues that lots of … Continued
Once a persons record has gone electronic, it really should never go back. A paper printout of an Electronic Health Record is often huge and unwieldy. If it is printed out or faxed it creates something so huge that it … Continued
Recently, the AAFP and Surescripts announced Physicians Direct, a secure messaging service for providers. But neither the article nor the signup page for Physicians Direct detail the most critical single issue regarding the service. This is a very large deployment … Continued
I have recently been approached by several policy people who are interested in ensuring that the consumer/patient is at the center of the coming Health Internet. Through my work at the Cautious Patient Foundation, I have become pretty obsessed about … Continued
To the novice, the term “interoperability” means that two systems can talk. To the expert, it means that they can understand each other. To much of our current data interchange is “meaning poor”. To get past that problem, we need … Continued
The Direct Project has a new name (formerly NHIN Direct), a new website directproject.org and an excellent write up over on O’Reilly Radar called Healthcare communication gets an upgrade. I am also interested to see that the O’Reilly folks seem … Continued
For whatever reason people simply do not get what the NHIN is and what its implications are. This feels like a repeat of what happened to me more than a year ago. The NHIN (which has been rebranded the “Nationwide … Continued
Here are two awesome videos from the NHIN team at OSCON!! Arien Malec for NHIN Direct!! Note the shout out at the beginning David Riley from NHIN CONNECT