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'Open' InfoButton Solution for EHR Systems
In the last two decades, researchers have investigated solutions to enable seamless access to online health knowledge resources within the context of electronic health record (EHR) systems. Information on the development and use of an open source InfoButton solution for use within EHR systems was presented in the latest issue of the open access OSEHRA Technical Journal. Read More »
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NHS & VHA: Transatlantic Exchange of Ideas and 'Lessons Learned' on Adoption of Health IT Solutions
Britain's 2020Health.Org has just released a major report outlining how the United Kingdom can transform its healthcare system by enhancing its existing collaboration effort with the U.S. Veteran's Health Administration (VHA) and by sharing technology, knowledge and lessons learned on the effective use of Telehealth, PHR, and EHR systems. Entitled "Making connections - A transatlantic exchange to support the adoption of digital health between the US VHA and England’s NHS", the report lays out step by step how Britain's National Health Service (NHS) can create a digital revolution that can significantly enhance its ability to provide health care. Read More »
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Open Health Tools (OHT): Latest News & Activities
Open Health Tools (OHT) just released the minutes of their latest Board Meeting from March 8, 2013, held in New Orleans, Louisianna. OHT is dedicated to improving the health of people through the transformation of health information technologies (HIT). The following is a brief summary of the meeting. Read More »
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Beyond HIT Interoperability: Open Platforms are the Key
Open platforms in health IT are inevitable. Exactly when OPEN becomes health IT’s de facto reality is impossible to determine. But we can be certain that it will happen because healthcare businesses focused on quality improvement and cost-effective care will demand it Read More »
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Open source VistA System offers Major Benefits for Small Community & Critical Access Hospitals (CAH)
Almost one fifth of the U.S. population lives in a rural areas. Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) and other small, rural community hospitals provide vital services to over 60 million people living in these areas.Many of these small rural hospitals cannot afford to acquire and implement costly commercial EHR systems. There is an alternative - the high quality, low cost 'open source' VistA system supported by a growing number of health IT vendors. Read More »
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Blue Button Champion Reflects on White House Experience
Matthew McCall, a founding member of the team that established OSEHRA, (the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent), recently shared his impressions as he completed his six-months assignment as a Presidential Innovation Fellow...Matthew and his team of two other Fellows, Dr. Henry Wei and Ryan Panchadsaram, worked to enhance the “Blue Button for America” program while emphasizing that all of their work be compatible with open source... Read More »
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VA and OSEHRA Respond to DoD's EHR RFI
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has just submitted a proposal to the Department of Defense for the Military Health System to migrate from its dysfunctional Electronic Health Record system (EHR) to the world-renowned EHR developed by the VA, known as VistA. The proposal was submitted in response to a Request for Proposal from DoD requesting advince on how to replace their current systems with a fully functional EHR. Read More »
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OpenMRS January 2013 Contributor Of The Month: Saptarshi Purkayastha
Editor’s Note: Starting in 2013, we will be highlighting an OpenMRS contributor every month, giving you the opportunity to learn more about the people building the OpenMRS software and community. More information about the Contributor of the Month program is available on the OpenMRS wiki...Saptarshi Purkayastha is from Mumbai, India and currently lives in Norway for work. He is a Research Fellow at the Department of Computer & Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where he is enrolled in the PhD program and works as a researcher in the domain of Health Information Systems for developing countries. His research group is the HISP Project at the University of Oslo, so Saptarshi spends most of his time there. Recently, OpenMRS community manager Michael Downey spoke to Saptarshi about his experiences in the OpenMRS project. Read More »
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Achieving 'Singularity' Through Collaboration, Sharing, and 'Open' Solutions
Want a look into the future? Check out Doug Wolens’ recently released documentary film entitled, “The Singularity”. It contains a truly impressive cast of scientists, futurists and philosophers discussing the uncertainty of what the future holds for humanity as we move towards that moment in time where we achieve ‘singularity’.
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The Value of EHR Interoperability that Money Can't Buy
There seems to be something missing in our national debate about health care and the use of health information technologies (IT) in this marketplace. Do we want a more 'open' healthy society, or a more closed system? What role should markets play in public health and medical sociology? How do we decide which EHR solutions to acquire? Should we be looking more closely at open source alternatives versus proprietary programs. Should money, quality of care, or some other non-market values determine what's best for the patient? This cuts to the heart of the debate. Consider the hospital that chooses to not pay an expensive proprietary EHR vendor for the enhanced code required by a doctor in order to get the latest real time knowledge for treating a patient's disease.
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