by Wes Rishel | December 13, 2011 | 3 Comments
The Clinical Information Modeling Initiative (CIMI) is a small group of volunteers that are working to consolidate the detailed clinical models of various groups in a way that could be adapted to meet the needs of health IT standards groups.
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Uncategorized Vertical Industries Tags: clinical decision support, Health Information Exchange, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability
by Wes Rishel | September 11, 2011 | 2 Comments
Creating a consumer-friendly taxonomy of the types of services provided by healthcare practices is, at best, expensive and more likely an oxymoronic challenge. Entry Level Provider Directories should solicit plain-English descriptions directly from the practices.
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Tags: Direct Project, EHR, Health Information Exchange, Health IT, Healthcare Providers, NHIN Direct
by Wes Rishel | August 16, 2011 | 4 Comments
Recent blogs to the contrary, HL7 V3 has been a limited success, particularly with CDA documents. In taking up a Fresh Look, HL7 must consider the differences between CDA and V3 messaging and learn some important lessons.
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Tags: EHR, Health 2.0, Health Information Exchange, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, HL7 Fresh Look, simple interop
by Wes Rishel | February 18, 2011 | Comments Off
The Direct Project skips the “valley of we could do” to debut in the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase on the “plateau of “we are doing.”
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Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Vertical Industries Tags: Direct Project, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, NHIN Direct, simple interop
by Wes Rishel | February 13, 2011 | 22 Comments
The PCAST report is an opportunity to redirect ONC resources to meets the short term goals associated with the HITECH, support more nimble development of standards for clinical data that are less arcane, and set a long-term direction that enables more innovative use of IT in healthcare. Here is what ONC should do.
Category: Healthcare Providers Tags: Direct Project, EHR, Health Internet, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability, Meaningful Use, PCAST Report
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
by Wes Rishel | September 22, 2010 | 2 Comments
In a time when “caterwaulablogging” is as routine as waving howdy, I pledge to express my concerns about NIEM with as little verbal plumage as I can muster, in hopes that I am contributing to the evolution of these ideas towards the vision I set out two years ago.
Category: Applications Healthcare Providers Interoperability Uncategorized Tags: ARRA, EHR, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, Meaningful Use, NHIN, NHIN Direct, Stimulus
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
by Wes Rishel | February 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
Many people have contacted me about getting started with Simple Interop. I have been lining up some Web resources to host a series of “birds of a feather” discussions. The goal was to encourage groups to form up and try it. ONC has followed this topic and offered many favorable comments. As it works out they [...]
Category: Interoperability Vertical Industries Tags: EHR, EMR, Health Internet, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, Meaningful Use, open source, Stimulus
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
