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Selling Anonymized Health Data

Posted on October 18, 2009 by Bob

The New York Times article When 2+2 Equals a Privacy Question raises some serious medical data privacy concerns. But by 2020, when a vast majority of American health providers are expected to have electronic health systems, the data mining component … Continue reading →

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Medical Data in the Cloud

Posted on September 26, 2009 by Bob

I just ran across a three-part series of articles by Practice Fusion: Medical Data in the Internet “cloud”: (part 1) – Data Safety (part 2) – Data Security (part 3) – Data Privacy Being an EMR in the cloud requires … Continue reading →

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Access to Medical Data: Are PC Standards and PHRs (You) the Answer?

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Bob

Dana Blankenhorn’s article Give medicine access to PC standards makes some good points about the medical device industry but (IMHO) misses the mark when trying to use PC standards and PHRs as models for working towards a solution. I’ll get … Continue reading →

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Liberate the Data!

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Bob

Peter Neupert’s post Tear Down the Walls and Liberate the Data is worth reading. There are some Microsoft-centric comments, but a number of the linked articles are good and the overall message is correct (IMO anyway). I might have tried … Continue reading →

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Contradictory Observations and Electronic Medical Records

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Bob

Martin Fowler has an interesting discussion in his ContradictoryObservations post.  This little slice of medically related software design insight is particularly relevant because it highlights (at least for me) the complexity of the use of electronic medical records and their … Continue reading →

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Dreaming of Flexible, Simple, Sloppy, Tolerant in Healthcare IT

Posted on January 3, 2009 by Bob

I was recently browsing in the computer (nerd) section of the bookstore and ran across an old Joel Spolsky edited book: The Best Software Writing I.  Even though it’s been about four years, good writing is good writing, and there … Continue reading →

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EMR at Kaiser Permanente

Posted on September 1, 2008 by Bob

Yesterdays San Diego Union Tribune had an article entitled: Digital divide. The subtitle is: Some doctors and hospitals are embracing electronic records for patients, but most are not making the technological leap from paper due to the cost. It discusses … Continue reading →

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CCHIT, The 800-Pound Gorilla

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Bob

There’s a lively discussion on HIStalk (Readers Write 8/27/08) regarding the merits of CCHIT.  The Jim Tate piece isn’t long, or even that informative. It simply touts CCHIT as an .. organization that is helping level the playing field and … Continue reading →

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Digital Devices and EHRs: the ROI

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Bob

Here’s a piece that provides a quick analysis of the ROI of having vital signs and ECG devices connected to an EMR: Digital Devices and EHRs — Perfect Together The right way to do it: Electronic transfer of patient information … Continue reading →

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Interoperability: Google Protocol Buffers vs. XML

Posted on July 14, 2008 by Bob

Google recently open sourced Protocol Buffers: Google’s Data Interchange Format (documentation, code download). What are Protocol Buffers? Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. The documentation is … Continue reading →

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