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Handheld Computers in Medicine workshop on 6th April in London

The Royal Society of Medicine is running the third annual Handheld Computers in Medicine workshop on 6th April in London. The workshop is a day long event split into two streams, one for beginners chaired by Dr Chris Paton (New Media Medicine) and one for more advanced users chaired by Dr Mo Al-Ubaydli (Mo.md). Handheld computers will be provided for the day for participants to follow along with the demonstrations and try out medical software applications.

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Electronic Health Rrecords Vendors Association (EHRVA) Interoperability Roadmap V2.0

The EHRVA Interoperability Roadmap is available. Here’s how they describe it: The EHRVA Interoperability Roadmap supports the national goal of interoperable electronic health records and provides a pragmatic, logical plan that will succeed when adopted and implemented by key stakeholders. We provide this Roadmap to mobilize the leadership of healthcare organizations, information technology vendors and other relevant stakeholders to collectively deliver on the vision by incorporating this Roadmap into their plans.

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79% of U.S. Internet uses have researched health information online

So, what’s the big deal? Well, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project only 73% of us get news online. So, Pew seems to log more people as having researched health information online than receiving news. This is a great trend for those of us in health IT who want to create Software as a Service (Saas) offerings that present useful health information and health IT solutions via the Internet.

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Check out GotoMeeting and GoToMyPC for remote access to medical and clinical workstations

I’ve been using Citrix software for years and more recently I’ve started using GotoMeeting.com for getting together with my clients and employees remotely. GotoMeeting allows unlimited online meetings for up to 10 people at a time for a small monthly fee. It allows me to hook up with my clients and their PCs anytime I want — the clients love the immediate service and we can get multiple parties together at a moment’s notice without installing new software on multiple PCs.

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A reader’s elaboration of my “better engineers” argument

Dale Hunscher commented on my earlier posting about best language selection for HIPAA security. He made my point better than I did so I thought I’d raise the comment to a level where everyone can see it. I agree with the post about the need for “good developers”, but I think that needs clarification, by way of expanding on Administrator’s comment above. Many programmers/software engineers have no real understanding of what kinds of programming practices create security holes.

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JScience Java library for scientific computations

Java programmers who happen to do “real world” scientific work should check out JScience. Their vision, according to the website is: To provide the most comprehensive JavaTM library for the scientific community. To create synergy between all sciences (e.g. math, physics, sociology, biology, astronomy, economics, etc.) by integrating them into a single architecture. To provide the best on-line services (webstart) for scientific calculations and visualizations.

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Start using RSS for health/medical alerts and data sharing

As most of us bloggers already know, Really Simple Syndication (RSS), is pretty popular in the blogosphere. It’s a wonderful solution to the “how do I tell everyone I have new stuff without sending out a bunch of emails?” problem. Although it’s quite popular for syndicating content like news, blog articles, and related information I think RSS has a chance to make a huge impact on healthcare and medical data sharing.

Shahid N. Shah

Software vendors should start providing virtual machine images to help demo their wares

Open source software is often difficult to install and get up running so “trying it out” is not trivial. We need web servers, application servers, database servers, etc all working in tandem just to check out some software. On the commercial side things are a little better but still complicated. My good friend Faisal Qureshi, who’s in the healthcare IT professional services and consultancy business, left a comment on one of my recent open source articles about how difficult it is to install the open source solutions and suggested that using virtual machine software like VMWare, which is now free for many licensing options, would make it significantly easier for customers to try out software.

Shahid N. Shah

HIPAA certification business for software vendors a good idea?

A reader recently asked: Is there a group that ‘hipaa certifies’ online healthcare vendors/providers as Verisign does for security? It would be a neat business idea because I keep reading stats about 50% or lower compliance levels. While I do lots of HIPAA work, I thought I’d invite a buddy of mine who knows even more about the subject to respond to the question. Bob Burns, who’s been working on healthcare IT systems for almost as long as I’ve been alive [he’s gonna kill me for saying that ;-)], wrote back:

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