March 2009

CCHIT set to meet with healthcare open source advocates

A number of open source advocates, including myself, have been recommending for a while that CCHIT make its certification process more amenable and friendly to free and open source software (FOSS). I wanted to congratulate CCHIT for taking the request seriously – they agreed to meet with FOSS advocates at HIMMS. They’ve been considerate enough [...]

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Health Wonk Review up at Healthblawg

Thanks to David Harlow for a great and attractively illustrated post: the “Spring has just about sprung” edition. Check it out. Share this:EmailFacebookLinkedInSharePrintStumbleUponRedditDigg

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Connecting to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN)

Federal Computer Week hosted an eSeminar talking about the NHIN. It’s a good presentation and if you’re in an healthcare IT space with any relevance to RHIOs, you should check out the Federal Health Architecture overview below. ONCHIT – Connecting to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) the Road Ahead Publish at Scribd or explore [...]

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Guest Article: Clinical Interoperability – The Antics of Semantics

In this fourth installment explaining clinical interoperability in plain English, Charlie Harp talks about semantics or the “meaning of data”. Charlie is the CEO and founder of Clinical Architecture and has spent the last twenty years designing and developing software solutions in the healthcare industry. Here’s what he had to say in his final part [...]

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Guest Article: The Hottest Jobs in Healthcare IT

Given all the attention being given to healthcare IT these days (especially because of the stimulus bill), many of my readers were wondering how to get into the market (jobs, contracts, etc). I asked Sarah Scrafford, who regularly writes on the topic of pharmacy technician online programs, to tell us what she’s seeing these days. [...]

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Client/Server vs. ASP/Web-Based in Healthcare IT

I get tons of email for healthcare IT advice (which I love, so keep the questions coming) and every once in a while a question comes along that I decide to answer here since I think it will be interesting to many readers. Here’s a great one from yesterday: I am a frequent reader of [...]

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EHR certification work begins: Nominations requested for Health IT Federal Advisory Boards (FACAs)

A friend of mine, Jim Rose, reminded me that a request for nominations for two Health IT Federal Advisory Boards (FACAs) went out from HHS today. Thanks for pointing that out, Jim. These advisory boards will lead the guidance and direction on standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria for health information technology adoption. I would [...]

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Guest Article: How to do real clinical interoperability right now

Last week I asked Charlie Harp to explain what clinical interoperability is – in plain english. Charlie is the CEO and founder of Clinical Architecture and has spent the last twenty years designing and developing software solutions in the healthcare industry. Here’s what he had to say in his third part of a series I’ve [...]

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