Health IT crowd adds to Mostashari praise
Healthcare information technology leaders continued Friday afternoon to laud Farzad Mostashari's selection as the new head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT).
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Open Source Drug Discovery
Prof. Samir K. Brahmachari
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Open Healthcare - Or Not.
As a tax payer, citizen and frequent user of healthcare services, I am terribly excited about the idea of a truly open source community creating a free platform for EHR for use around the world. The ability of open source to provide a worldwide, vendor neutral software platform that an ecosystem can thrive, compete and innovate upon is unparalleled.
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ONC's Fridsma on Security for HIEs
Different security approaches are required to protect the privacyof health information "pushed" -- or exchanged directly between two organizations -- and information that is "pulled" as a result of complex queries, says Doug Fridsma M.D., Ph.D, of the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
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Healing the Interface Between Doctors and IT
Come hear how it looks for two companies on the front lines as they craft solutions that work on the front end for doctors and connect on the back end to the many stakeholders of our healthcare system.
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Defense Official Backs Commercial Software for Joint Health Record
Elizabeth McGrath, Defense deputy chief management officer, said Defense "will look first" at commercial software for the health record, followed by adoption of existing Defense and VA applications, with the last choice being in-house development. McGrath's emphasis on commercial software for the joint record conflicts with the open-source software approach backed by Shinseki and VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker.
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API Aims to Hit Clinical Software With Disruptive Innovation
Clinical software is ripe for disruptive innovation. As Dr. Kenneth Mandl sees it, that innovation will arrive in the form of apps that reference a common application program interface (API) and as a result, can be added to or removed from any electronic health record (EHR) system. Dr. Mandl is the co-director of the Substitutable Medical Apps, Reusable Technology (SMART) initiative.
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Environmental Exposure & EHR Systems
Introduction
There is growing evidence among scientists and the public about possible health risks associated with exposure to occupational or environmental hazards. There may be short term or long term consequences to people who have been exposed to radiation, chemicals, asbestos, pollution, electro-magnetic transmissions, and hazardous waste. We need to better understand the impact of environmental exposure on children and adults with regards to autism, asthma, cancers, diabetes, obesity, and so many other conditions and diseases. The time has come to more systematically capture data on exposure to occupational and environmental hazards in electronic health record (EHR) and personal health record (PHR) systems. Read More »
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Wisconsin reps trying to torpedo VA's open source strategy
For those of you folks who think that open health is a staid field, this week saw the unfolding of an epic scandal. NexGov's inimitable reporter, Bob Brewin, author of the column What's Brewin, got his hands on a stash of documents showing that elected representatives from Wisconsin are trying to torpedo the open source strategy being pursued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Kudos to VA's CIO, Roger Baker, for standing up for what's right.
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WHO Experts To Analyse R&D Financing, Focus On Poor Country Diseases
The World Health Organization expert working group tasked with studying proposals on financing and coordinating research and development for diseases that disproportionately affect developing countries will meet next week.
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