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Healthcare Services Specification Project

A reader (thanks Ed) just sent me this link to the Healthcare Services Specification Project that I thought might interest many of you. They describe their project as: This project is a collaborative effort between Health Level Seven and the Object Management Group to identify and document service specifications, functionality, and conformance supportive and relevant to healthcare IT stakeholders and resulting in real-world implementations. In addition, several other groups have joined the HSSP effort.

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Very nice auto-recognition and auto-login system for healthcare workstations

I met the founders of SensibleVision, creators of the Fast Access computer security and access control software, at HIMSS a few weeks ago. I was fascinated because it’s one of those few security applications that you can understand in under a minute. Fast Access is a program that installs onto Windows workstations and allows users to simply sit in front of their computers and be automatically logged in using facial recognition.

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Conference on Intellectual Property in the Global Marketplace

I’m a patent holder and I train patent examiners on technology topics so I often see and sometimes work with the folks at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). If all you know about the USPTO is what you read in the newspapers you should attend some events where you’ll meet the folks that work there. If have found most of the staff that I’ve encountered to be courteous, hard-working, caring, and really trying to do the right thing as often as possible.

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Medical Blog Network vs. Lynch Mob

Dmitriy over at HealthVoices just posted about the medical blog aggregating “debate”. In case you’re not aware, HealthVoices is both a medical blog content aggregator and a blogging community where medical bloggers can get national recoginition for their writing. I met Dmitriy at HIMSS and I was impressed by his knowledge, dedication to the medical community, and his innovative ideas about how something like HealthVoices could help physicians and other healthcare providers get messages out to patients and citizens.

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EHRs in the Exam Room: Tips on Patient-Centered Care

The AAFP has a shiny new white paper with tips on how to use EHRs in the exam room. They say “with a thoughtful approach, you can maintain your focus on the patient.” In their introduction they point out that most people talk about how to buy and deploy EHRs but that “minimal attention has been paid to understanding how family physicians use EHRs with patients in the examination room.”

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Whitepaper on Open Source in Healthcare

My friend Adam Weinstein, a senior engineer at CardinalHealth, pointed me to the iHealthReports Open Source Primer for Healthcare whitepaper. Since it’s a primer it’s not too enlighting for many of us who’ve been in open source for a while but it’s quite good as an introduction to folks in healthcare who may have just started hearing about open source and wondering why it might be relevant to them. Some useful arguments come from their Executive Summary:

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Wikipedia vs. Encyclopedia Britannica: The Kid’s All Right (And So’s the Old Man)

With all the great “community-focused” work going on in the healthcare world, we can see growth in community-powered clinical information. Projects like ClinWiki are letting contributors build unmoderated (or less-moderated) clinical knowledge bases. I read this nice article this month about Wikipedia and how it compares with Encylopedia Briannica. It’s a good article that demonstrates the strenghts and weaknesses of top-down versus bottom-up information publishing approaches.

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Should we develop a healthcare domain-specific language (DSL)?

Artima Developer recently started a discussion on How and When to Develop Domain-Specific Languages. It was a good discussion and made me think about a couple of DSLs I’d written for healthcare during my dot-com CTO days. I was wondering if others had done the same and whether they’d like to share their DSLs with the rest of the healthcare IT community.

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