The monikers ‘Health Data Initiative’ and ‘meaningful use’ are not commonly seen together, but there is an intersection where they meet. And on that corner is Todd Park, CTO of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Read More »

It’s natural to concentrate on the fine details of the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs when considering core functions for current and future EHR systems. But it’s also constructive to look beyond U.S. borders for possible guidance on governmental involvement in healthcare matters. Read More »

Today in his Open Source Bridge keynote, Mayor Sam Adams of Portland, OR announced Project City Sync, the next step in making local and regional governments more transparent. Read More »

Charlene Caburnay from the Health Communications Research Lab presented to the Health Data Initiative Forum today about Ozioma, winner of the Health 2.0 and National Cancer Institute Developer Challenge. Read More »

I talked recently with Shahid N. Shah, who is speaking in the healthcare track at the O'Reilly Open Source convention later this month about "The Implications of Open Source Technologies in Safety-critical Medical Device Platforms." Read More »

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) is requesting information from open development community experts about models of open development applicable to the biomedical research community.

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The U.S. government is still very much a Windows world, but a group dedicated to bringing open source software into public agencies says it is seeing progress on several fronts. Read More »

Dr. Farzad Moshashari, the national health IT coordinator, said that he agreed with the conclusions of the Health IT Policy Committee for delaying until 2014 the start of stage 2 of meaningful use, essentially signaling to the industry that federal policymakers will follow the advisory group’s recommendation. Read More »

The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has released the final "Guide to Open Source Software" for government agencies, which includes its new open source procurement principles. Read More »

Are your physicians on board with your ICD-10 transition? Why should they be? Isn't that why they hired medical coders? Unfortunately, the transition can affect every aspect of your practice. But it's going to be hard to persuade your physicians that's the case. Read More »