ONC Moves on Sending Questions to the Data
Category: Interoperability Vertical Industries Tags: Direct Project, Health Information Exchange, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, HIE, Meaningful Use, PCAST Report, Query Health
Entries Tagged as 'Health Information Exchange'
ONC Moves on Sending Questions to the Data
by Wes Rishel | July 26, 2011 | 2 Comments
Send the Questions to the Data
by Wes Rishel | July 7, 2011 | 10 Comments
We all know why distributed query “can’t work.” OTOH, things are only impossible until they’re not. It’s time to decide if we are approaching a cusp of possibility. We have new resources (more EHRS, a fundamental secure communications infrastructure and standard coding systems in support of meaningful use requirements). It is time to assemble a group of users and vendors willing to look at this issue intensely but pragmatically.
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Vertical Industries Tags: Direct Project, distributed query, EHR, Health Information Exchange, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, open source, PCAST Report, public health
Simple Provider Directories for Simple Interop
by Wes Rishel | May 27, 2011 | 5 Comments
Ideas about provider directories to support The Direct Project are getting quite complex. Here is an approach that matches Direct itself for simplicity and the potential for rapid completion.
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Tags: Direct Project, EHR, Health Information Exchange, Health Internet, Healthcare Interoperability, HIE, Meaningful Use, NHIN Direct, NwHIN
On The Direct Project, PCAST and Ultra Large Systems
by Wes Rishel | February 7, 2011 | 1 Comment
We are pleased that Aneesh Chopra, blogging from the White House, recognized the early contribution of my blog in setting the direction that became the basis for The Direct Project. The Direct Project set a new speed record, going from a basic idea to actual production use for exchanging healthcare information in 11 months.
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Uncategorized Tags: Direct Project, Health Information Exchange, Health Internet, Healthcare Interoperability, Meaningful Use, NHIN Direct, PCAST Report, simple interop, ULS, ultra large systems
PCAST and Clarke’s Third Law
by Wes Rishel | December 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
The converse of Clarke’s third Law is also true, “any magic is indistinguishable from sufficiently advanced technology.” … The PCAST Report represents a canny understanding of the ability of the Internet to facilitate disruptive innovation … What evidence can CMS and ONC use to fufill its regulatory duties by balancing new vision with existing initiatives.
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Tags: EHR, Health Information Exchange, Healthcare Interoperability, Meaningful Use, NHIN, NHIN Direct, PCAST Report
Surescripts Announcement Confirms Simple Interop Incremental Approach
by Wes Rishel | October 28, 2010 | Comments Off
Our feeling was that the simple Interop would attract companies that would start up without grants and creatively find value propositions to repay their investment. This notion of enabling free enterprise seems to have paid off.
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Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Tags: Health Information Exchange, Health Internet, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability, HIE, Meaningful Use, NHIN Direct, simple interop
retweet: WOO HOO! #NHINDirect wins @InformationWeek 500 Gov Innovators Award
by Wes Rishel | September 24, 2010 | Comments Off
All award programs are hooey — except when something you care about wins the award. I am happy to be associated with NHIN direct and my hat’s off to four key people who are showing us how to use the Internet to advance standards development.
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Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Tags: Health Information Exchange, Health Internet, Healthcare Interoperability, HIE, Meaningful Use, NHIN Direct
NHIN Direct and Strange Bedfellows
by Wes Rishel | June 13, 2010 | 11 Comments
Sean Nolan’s blog highlights that NHIN Direct has stumbled on a “tough” decision. We didn’t come to agreement on the backbone protocol despite an absolutely outstanding process for increasing understanding as opposed to so many meetings where the opposite of speaking usually is not “listening” but “waiting to speak.” Sean characterized the split in the [...]
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Vertical Industries Tags: ARRA, EHR, Health Information Exchange, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability, HIE, Meaningful Use, NHIN, NHIN Direct, RESTful Web Services, simple interop, UDDI
NHIN Direct v. HIEs: Competitors or Collaborators
by Wes Rishel | March 14, 2010 | 12 Comments
Recently a person organizing a state’s HIE effort reported a hospital CIO saying, “why do I need your complex HIE when can have NHIN Direct?” This question gets to the heart of the confusion that some states or stated designated entities are experiencing with the introduction of NHIN Direct into the mix. I wrote this fellow [...]
Category: Interoperability Vertical Industries Tags: ARRA, EHR, Health Information Exchange, Health Internet, HIE, Meaningful Use, NHIN, NHIN Direct
Web Services: What’s In a Name?
by Wes Rishel | January 30, 2010 | 4 Comments
If anyone things that nerds are unemotional, they need only go to a standards meeting. The notion of using web services to support reliable computer-to-computer messaging gets as much passion from the partly-informed as did the demotion of Pluto. After looking into this I confess that I have added to the confusion. As I have learned, a [...]
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Vertical Industries Tags: ARRA, EHR, Health Information Exchange, Health Internet, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, HIE, Meaningful Use, Web services
