Wes Rishel

After reading Health 2.0: Take a Lesson From the Web Peter Basch asked me “exactly what a Provider Health Internet looks like – [and what are] the implications of using it vs. a RHIO / NHIN?” The question has special piquancy because users of EHRs will need to show certain kinds of interoperability to meet [...]

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Believe it or not, this is about the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) and maybe the Health Internet, whatever that turns out to be. But I’ll get back to that.
As discussed in Healthcare 2.0: Better Tweetment? I am on a mission to find concrete value propositions for Health 2.0. By this I mean not the [...]

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Healthcare SDOs should “get out of the HTTP business, but we still need transport standards.

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Harvard’s plan to mine vaccination and claim data to detect adverse effect is important, despite big problems.

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I enjoyed Carleen Hawn’s Take Two Aspirin And Tweet Me In The Morning: How Twitter, Facebook, And Other Social Media Are Reshaping Health Care. Not the typical “wall of evidence” from Health Affairs, but numerous well-chosen and credible anecdotes. These make a credible case for at least two advantages for e-enabled healthcare

social network software as [...]

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