For those wondering, the Direct Project is a secure email protocol based on SMTP/S-MIME for doctor-doctor and doctor-patient secure communication. It is all-but-required in Meaningful Use version 2 and it is intended to replace the fax machine for the transfer of health information in the United States. I had a hand in designing the protocol. […]
Category: NPI
DocGraph has funded!
Our crowdfunding attempt to make doctor data freely available to everyone has succeed. 88 people contributed more than $23,000! We are temporarily reopening the effort, if you would still like to get the data at the bargain basement price. Thanks to the Medstartr team for all of their help! […]
Hacking data: showing patterns in kids health
Here is my submission for the Local Children’s Data Health 2.0 developer challenge. The challenge was to make data available through kidsdata.org come alive. Generally, the red circles correspond to the percentage of child allergy suffers who had -seen- a doctor, but had no specific plan to address their condition. The red tags, are healthcare […]
NPI data, the doctors social network
(Update Feb 18 2011: search.npidentify.com has moved to docnpi.com, I have adjusted links accordingly) I have been working, part time, on a project for nearly two years to dramatically improve the quality and depth of information that is available on the Internet from the NPI database. For those not familiar, NPI or national provider identifier, […]
Computer Science should be required for Medical School
Hi, Currently, in Texas, one is required to take Physics I and II and Calculus I (or equivalent stats class) to apply for Medical School. That is not all, of course, but they are requirements. So far, I have never meet a Medical Doctor who needed to use calculus. In fact the only ones that […]
Announcing NPIdentify
A while ago I was contacted by the folks at Health IT Transition (Now defunct.) regarding some NPI development. We decided to collaborate. They turned me on to the intricacies of the NPI database, and I have been doing skunkworks on the NPI database ever since. Sadly, they have been waiting on me since then, […]