Over the years I've listened to many new-to-health-care entrepreneurs pitch their great new idea. They're so excited: health care is so inefficient! People are so frustrated by the system! It will be so easy to improve it! I usually end up thinking, "Oh, you poor people. You really don't know much about health care, do you?" They don't fully grasp the strange way it is bought and sold, the convoluted financing, or the layers of regulation. So I wish them well and wait to hear about their eventual failure. But now I'm thinking, maybe it is experts like me who are part of health care's problem. In Harvard Business Review, Ayse Birsel suggests that companies need to do more "reverse thinking," deliberately thinking up wrong ideas...
3D Printing Educator Spotlight On: Joshua Pearce, PhD, Associate Professor, Michigan Tech
Sarah Anderson Goehrke | 3D Print | July 27, 2017
As the global population continues to expand massively, with an estimated 7.5 billion people alive today, sustainability is becoming an ever-more-pressing concern. It takes a lot of energy to support a large and growing population, especially with the living standards seen in the 21st century. In the US, where capitalism looms large, affordability poses another issue as many goods and services carry with them a hefty price tag. At the convergence of a few major areas looking toward the future of sustainability is Dr. Joshua M. Pearce, who has engaged in extensive work with 3D printing, solar power, and open source research as he has headed thorough studies examining these areas and working to educate students and industry alike...
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Design and Produce 3D Printed, Custom Breast Prosthetics
By Joshua Pearce | August 30, 2017
As the market for 3D printers has moved from sophisticated, experienced designers into the mass consumer market, individuals are saving substantial money with pre-designed, DIY products made on 3D printers. These opportunities are poised to increase due to the Free Open Source 3D Customizer, a libre, 3D model customizer that anyone can use to create their own 3D printed designs. To demonstrate how the software works and the possibilities that it creates, I'll show how breast cancer survivors and others can use the Free Open Source 3D Customizer to design and produce 3D-printable external breast prosthetics.
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Why Do We Settle in Healthcare?
Monica Stout | EMR and HIPAA | August 22, 2017
[I]magine it’s the middle of winter and you’ve caught the latest bug du jour. You call your doctor for an appointment. When you arrive, you’re handed a clipboard and asked to fill out the same repetitive paper form with your health information that you fill out every time you visit. You’re certain they have this information already, but you’re required to fill it out yet again. You might wait 30, 40, or 60 minutes past your appointment time before you’re called back to a room...
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ZendCon 2017
ZendCon 2017 is the 13th annual ZendCon conference and is designed to bring together the best experts, training, and networking opportunities in the open source software community. ZendCon 2017 will address topics such as enterprise PHP and open source development, the evolution of frameworks and tools, API excellence, innovation in web-based open source technologies, and the latest in PHP 7. Attendees will be able to take advantage of a variety of exhibit hall activities, in-depth technical sessions, and opportunities to connect with experts. This year's attendees may choose to take the ZCE 2017-PHP test at a substantial discount onsite at the conference.
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Pistoia Alliance US Conference 2017
The Pistoia Alliance US Conference 2017 is a free one-day conference put on by the Pistoia Alliance. This year's theme is "Lab of the Future" and will focus on how advances in automation, connectivity, machine learning, augmented reality, quantum computing, and blockchain are affecting clinical outcomes data and research data and diminishing the boundaries between hospitals, research laboratories, clinics, and ambulatory care...
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Government IT contractor sues VA over Cerner Deal
Arthur Allen | Politico | August 23, 2017
CliniComp, a major Pentagon and VA electronic health records provider, is suing the Department of Veterans Affairs over Secretary David Shulkin's decision to offer a no-bid contract to Cerner to replace the agency’s VistA system. The suit brought Friday in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims charges that the VA violated federal contracting law by making the June announcement without first conducting market research or assessing the cost of the contract. It demands that the judge restrain the VA from awarding the contract to Cerner until the protest is resolved.
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Open source EHR platform tailored to treat Ebola patients
Greg Slabodkin | Health Data Management | August 23, 2017
An open-source electronic health record system developed to treat Ebola patients during the recent epidemic in West Africa is being touted as a potential solution for clinical data collection in highly infectious environments and resource-constrained healthcare settings. Implemented two years ago at Save the Children International’s Kerry Town Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone, the EHR leverages a Java-based web application called OpenMRS that enables the design of a customized medical records system with no programming.
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Innovation Needs Dumb Ideas
By Kim Bellard | August 22, 2017
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Report on the ONC 2017 Technical Interoperability Forum
By Noam H. Arzt, Ph.D. | August 21, 2017
Last week I attended with my colleague Mike Berry the ONC 2017 Technical Interoperability Forum. This meeting was convened under the 21st Century Cures Act passed by Congress in late 2016. Several hundred participants attended a series of panel presentations and discussions. The forum took place over one-and-a-half-days. The forum covered a variety of topics related to interoperability, including discussion of the business case for interoperability, semantics, national networks, and application programming interfaces (APIs). In many ways the speakers were “the usual suspects” involved in national networks, standards development, and HIE planning and implementation.
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10 Advantages of Open Source for the Enterprise
By Ben Bromhead | August 17, 2017
Selecting technologies means committing to solutions that will support an active, growing business over the long term, so it requires careful consideration and foresight. When an enterprise bets on the wrong horse, the result is often significantly higher development costs and reduced flexibility, both of which can stick around for the long haul. In the past decade, adoption of open source software at the enterprise level has flourished, as more businesses discover the considerable advantages open source solutions hold over their proprietary counterparts, and as the enterprise mentality around open source continues to shift. Enterprises looking to make smart use of open source software will find plenty of great reasons to do so. Here are just some of them.
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