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
by Wes Rishel | July 5, 2010 | Comments Off
If you follow health IT standards and haven’t seen it, I recommend a look Keith Boone’s Where in the World is CDA and XDS. This is a sexy presentation and a great use of simple and effective collaboration. More important, it is a massive job to get this data and keep it up to date. [...]
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Category: Healthcare Providers Vertical Industries Tags: Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, HIE, IHE, Meaningful Use, Stimulus
by Wes Rishel | June 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
Today Anand Shroff replied to my prior post with some very provoking questions. I have added emphasis in quoting his reply. Wes – are you detecting a split between EMR vendors and HIE vendors? From where I sit, the HIE vendors should be fairly neutral about what gets picked, as long as there is a single [...]
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Uncategorized Tags: ARRA, EHR, EMR, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, Healthcare Reform, HIE, 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 | 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
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 24, 2010 | 19 Comments
Sir Blogsalot has written quite a bit about the idea of simple interoperation, each post developing some aspect of the idea. Recently I combined all the ideas in a single PPT presentation. You can download it by clicking here to leave the Gartner Blogs web site and then clicking on the link to the presentation. [...]
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Vertical Industries Tags: ARRA, disease registry, Health Internet, Health Record Bank, Healthcare Interoperability, HIE, Meaningful Use, personal health record, PHR, Stimulus
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 [...]
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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 | January 4, 2010 | 1 Comment
In Simple Interop: Use Cases we set the challenge of communicating among people and Health IT systems in a manner that does not create a “walled community” where all those that practice with EHRs and HIEs have no ability to use the Internet to communicate with those that don’t. The biggest challenge in such a [...]
Category: Healthcare Providers Uncategorized Vertical Industries Tags: ARRA, EHR, Health Information Exchange, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, HIE, Meaningful Use, NHIN, personal health record, PHR, Stimulus
