Entries Tagged as 'Health IT'
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
by Wes Rishel | January 22, 2010 | 1 Comment
Kudos to Motorcycle Guy (aka Keith Boone) for Implementation Technology Specifications. It puts in context four separate efforts to simplify the XML representation of clinical information in HL7 Version 3 and CDA and to achieve a RESTful URL. I know I speak for a lot of people that have the greatest respect for the precision [...]
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Vertical Industries Tags: Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability, HL7
by Wes Rishel | January 16, 2010 | Comments Off
After publishing “It Takes a Region:” Progress Without EHRs I received an email from Alan Glaseroff updating me on the current state of the chronic disease efforts and the proliferation of EHRs, which is now up to 41% by physician count. With his permission I am including portions of his email here: We did use [...]
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Vertical Industries Tags: ARRA, disease registry, EHR, EMR, Health Information Exchange, Health Internet, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, HIE, Humboldt Country, Meaningful Use, open source, p4p, patient ID, Stimulus
by Wes Rishel | January 4, 2010 | 4 Comments
In Simple Interop: Use Cases we have made a somewhat unorthodox proposition, to support mixed communication between people and automatic computer processing programs. We have done so because of the issues raised in Rant on Heath Information Technology Asynchrony . This proposition entails solving some issues. For example, what if The email is never delivered [...]
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Vertical Industries Tags: ARRA, EHR, Health Information Exchange, Health Internet, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, HIE, Meaningful Use, NHIN
by Wes Rishel | December 31, 2009 | 4 Comments
This post seeks not to define the full scope of interactions of a PHR but simply to define a simple connection between PHRs and other health IT systems. We make two claims for this approach. (1) it greatly simplifies the roll-out of connections between PHRs and other healthcare IT systems, thus accelerating the roll-out of [...]
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Vertical Industries Tags: ARRA, EHR, Health Information Exchange, Health Internet, Health IT, Health Record Bank, Healthcare Interoperability, HRB, Meaningful Use, NHIN, personal health record, PHR, Stimulus
by Wes Rishel | December 30, 2009 | 2 Comments
There are many definitions to certain common terms associated with healthcare information exchange. These are definitions that I am using in preparing the “simple interop” series of posts. These definitions will not necessarily be suitable for other purposes and are not necessarily consistent with the other sources, including Gartner research notes. Health domain name a [...]
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Vertical Industries Tags: ARRA, EHR, EMR, Health Information Exchange, Health Internet, Health IT, Health Record Bank, Healthcare Interoperability, HIE, HRB, NHIN, Stimulus
by Wes Rishel | December 28, 2009 | Comments Off
Like most of us, I have been enjoying holidays with family. My computational efforts have been confined to bringing the awesome processing power of a Canon 7D DSLR and Adobe Lightroom to bear on snapshots of grandchildren, ages 3 and 6, opening presents. (Just a hint of grandparental pride: it was a delight to see [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: ARRA, EHR, EMR, Health Information Exchange, Health Internet, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, HIE, Meaningful Use, NHIN, Stimulus
by Wes Rishel | December 20, 2009 | 3 Comments
Since Simple Interop: The Health Internet Node was posted there has been a very thoughtful thread on the notion of having a top level domain (TLD) for healthcare. In the original post I thought I was pretty clear that we did not think this is a good idea, but in a separate posting I can [...]
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Uncategorized Vertical Industries Tags: ARRA, EHR, EMR, Health Internet, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, Meaningful Use, NHIN, Stimulus
by Wes Rishel | December 15, 2009 | 20 Comments
In Simple Interop: How To Go About It I talked about a simple interop model. Today’ post is a proposal for how to exploit the power of the Internet to the max while adding adequate security. McCallie and I offer it to all those who would listen. The diagram at the end of this post [...]
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Uncategorized Vertical Industries Tags: ARRA, EHR, EMR, Health Internet, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, NHIN
by Wes Rishel | December 13, 2009 | 4 Comments
Simple Interop: My Boggle-Busting Goal recapped the rationale for this “Simple Interop” thread. In On eBay, the Fax and Healthcare Interop I turned my own attitude around about that oft-deprecated bedrock of healthcare interoperability, the fax machine. Specifically I pointed out fax it is a hard technology to beat when you consider ubiquity and simplicity. [...]
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Vertical Industries Tags: ARRA, EHR, EMR, Health Internet, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, Meaningful Use, NHIN
