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20 Messaging and Vocabulary Standards for Government Health IT

Tim’s got a good story about the federal government’s choice of health IT messaging and vocabulary standards selection over at Medical Connectivity Consulting. Worth reading, especially since he did the legwork to find the correct link for the standards list. I know a couple of the guys who worked on creating this list (on the Feds side) and although the list looks like it was pretty easy to put together, I can assure you that it was not as simple as it looks.

Shahid N. Shah

Nurses check on patients via Internet

This is my kind of medicine: Nurses check on patients via Internet. From the article: Operated through a phone line, “home telecare” devices are hooked up to stethoscopes and blood pressure and oxygen readers that transmit results to a remote station monitored by a nurse or doctor. The technology saves providers time and gets patients timely attention without ever having to leave their homes, advocates say. This kind of remote monitoring and care will only grow (and as soon as there are hard numbers to show cost reduction it will skyrocket).

Shahid N. Shah

Computers with patients’ information stolen from office

AP reported a couple of days ago about computers with patients’ information being stolen from a Pennsylvania medical office. Computers being stolen are nothing new. Data being taken is nothing new. But, the kind of data being stolen of course can make all the difference in the world. In this case (as in most cases) the theft probably occurred because it was easy to do and the computers have some resale (fence) value.

Shahid N. Shah

Polls Are Open for 2005 Medical Weblog Awards

If you like what you read here, please take a moment and voice your opinion by voting at the 2005 Medical Weblog Awards. I’m flattered just to be nominated, but getting some votes would make me feel even better :-). I’m nominated in the following categories: Best Medical Weblog Best New Medical Weblog Established in 2005 Best Informatics Weblog I thank everyone who nominated me for their kindness. Thanks in advance for those who cast their vote in my favor in one, two, or all three of the categories.

Shahid N. Shah

Oracle aims to lock in low-end users

BusinessWeek and VNUnet reported that Oracle is offering a free version of its database for low-end users. Some VNUNet excerpts: Oracle is developing a free version of its database designed to lock in low-end users. The company released a beta of Oracle Database 10g Express Edition on Monday as a free download which can be freely distributed as an embedded database. A final version is scheduled for availability later this year.

Shahid N. Shah

Another open source EMR list

Due to popular demand (I got a few more emails about my RedHat discussion from Saturday), here’s another list of existing open source Electronic Medical Records (EMR) solutions.

Shahid N. Shah

No RedHat equivalents in health IT…yet

This morning one of my readers (a doctor) posed a great question: Why is there no “Red Hat” equivalent in medicine? I come from a family with members in VC and keep getting pitches for proprietary software for everything from EHR/PHR to radiology PACS systems etc. Do you know of any providers of open source medical software? The simple is answer to his question is that there is no real RedHat equivalent in the medical software arena.

Shahid N. Shah

Windows Media Center for eHealth

Dr. Clifford Goldsmith, Director of the Provider Industry group in Microsoft’s Healthcare and Life Sciences unit, had some great ideas in his recent Windows Media Center (MCE) for eHealth article. As a regular user of MCE I totally agree with him that it’s a good platform for communicating with patients within the home. MCE is not that prevalent yet, but perhaps with the right “killer healthcare IT app” it could make some inroads for elderly or chronically ill patients.

Shahid N. Shah
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