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 | 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
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 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
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
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 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 | 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 25, 2010 | 1 Comment
Dear Abby, The question is how SMTP as the preferred transport mechanism reconciles with the EHR certification criterion (in the IFR) that requires certified EHRs to use either SOAP or REST for HIE (i.e., §170.202 Transport standards for exchanging electronic health information). Just sign me “Puzzled in Peoria” Dear P in P, First, let’s be [...]
Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Uncategorized Vertical Industries Tags: ARRA, EHR, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, Meaningful Use, NHIN Direct
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
