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Americans Killed by Medical Errors Today

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Bob

Current events have sparked popular tweets like this: As referenced by the West Health To Err is Human: Interoperability is Divine article, based on a 300,000 annual death rate, the following could be added to the list: Americans killed by medical errors today: … Continue reading →

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Interoperability: Arrested Progress

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Bob

When it comes to the state of interoperability in the medical device industry there couldn’t be a better metaphor than Arrested Development*.  A dysfunctional family made up of eccentric well-meaning personalities each doing their own thing, oblivious to each other and the rest … Continue reading →

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Design Patterns for EMR/EHR Performance

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Bob

Healthy Architectures – Using CQRS and Event Sourcing for Electronic Medical Records presents a couple of interesting patterns for the management of healthcare data. The two patterns are: Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) Event Sourcing (ES) Here’s another article that provides … Continue reading →

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Open Source Medical Device Connectivity

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Bob

In The Case for Open Source Healthcare IT John Zaleski uses the VistA open source software as a model for improving the medical device data gathering in order to produce a “more robust end product”.  On the whole, I could not agree more. Achieving … Continue reading →

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Standards & Interoperability (S&I) Framework

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Bob

There’s a new standards organization in town: Standards & Interoperability (S&I) Framework. The objective of the S&I framework is to create a robust, repeatable process based on federal best practices that will enable ONC to execute on initiatives that will … Continue reading →

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The Reality of EMR Integration for Medical Devices

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Bob

Tim provides a good starting point for understanding this in EMR Integration for Medical Devices: The Basics. What this highlights of course is that getting data from a medical device into an EMR is a lot harder than it should … Continue reading →

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Medical Devices and the Cloud

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Bob

The article Is Cloud the tomorrow of Medical Devices Industry? includes some of the challenges — regulatory, privacy, security etc. — faced by manufacturers trying to manage medical device data in the cloud. You can’t disagree with this statement: The success of … Continue reading →

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Hacking Your Own Health Data

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Bob

The MassDevice article Doctors to patients: Track your own health data has an interesting take on the  personally controlled healthcare record (PCHR). Keely Wray advocates that PCHR data should be “Hackable” (my highlight): I mean “hackable” in the sense of … Continue reading →

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Interoperability is a Big Word!

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Bob

There was a statement in one of the HIStalk Readers Write 5/10/10 articles in that I haven’t been able to get out of my mind. In Digging for Gold in your HIT Applications, Ron Olsen writes: One of the most … Continue reading →

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Why Healthcare IT is Not a Game Changer

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Bob

Last week I attended the WLSA/Continua Mobile Healthcare Symposium and the opening day of the Continua Health Alliance Winter Summit 2010.  Also, a couple of weeks ago I attended a few of the FDA Workshop on Medical Device Interoperability: Achieving … Continue reading →

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