Query Health to Demo 'Round Trip' at HIMSS12

Michael Buck, PhD, just might be the poster boy for Query Health. ONC’s distributed querying initiative is gearing up to enable physicians and public health officials to ask simple questions against complex and diverse systems spanning geographic regions to get real-time health data in return – and to do so without building the sort of mammoth data warehouse IBM or Oracle would showcase.

“The real value is if you can get it out quickly,” said Buck, the biomedical informatics R&D manager for the NY Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. “Six months is way faster than building a data warehouse.” At HIMSS12 in Las Vegas this week, Buck and ONC are spotlighting what the folks behind Query Health consider significant progress by demonstrating a round trip query execution...