[openhealth] Meaningful use has been defined.

2009-06-17 Thread Wayne Wilson
http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com/2009/06/meaningful-use-has-arrived.html

[openhealth] Certification incentives

2009-06-17 Thread Wayne Wilson
I must have missed this in all the discussions about certification. According to this site: http://www.athenahealth.com/hitech.php starting in 2011 physicians ( is this every individual or just groups acting a single entity?) can get $43,000 incentive payment for using a CCHIT EHR system.

[openhealth] OpenSource Health Care Leadership

2008-06-09 Thread Wayne Wilson
http://www.worldcongress.com/events/HL08009/ I see Fred's name on the list of invited speakers. congratulations [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: [openhealth] Digest Number 539

2008-02-21 Thread Wayne Wilson
On 21 Feb 2008 09:04:22 -, openhealth@yahoogroups.com 2a. Re: Creating the Free Medical Software Foundation Posted by: Tim Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] tw_cook Date: Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:02 am ((PST)) Health informatics in general and certainly the use of FOSS in healthcare is so young

[openhealth] An opportunity or crushing competition?

2008-02-21 Thread Wayne Wilson
Walmart is franchising clinics in their stores and partnering with solution providers as well as regional health systems. Here is a chain of reasoning that might apply: Walmart mandates that it's franchisee's use eClinicalWorks software. Check it out. It's your target in the US market. I was

Re: [openhealth] Digest Number 348

2007-02-21 Thread Wayne Wilson
This is in regards OpenEHR licensing. It's amazing how much discussion licensing can consume even without the legal profession chiming in. IT should probably come as no surprise then that many academic institutions are seeing their legal staff increase faster than other professional

Re: [openhealth] Digest Number 302

2006-12-04 Thread Wayne Wilson
On Dec 2, 2006, at 5:17 AM, openhealth@yahoogroups.com wrote: Getting an idea of what it can do functionally I see as orthogonal to the issue of the source code being open or not (in a way, an open API / service interface reduces the importance of this issue, since you could just as well

[openhealth] standards vs implementations

2006-12-04 Thread Wayne Wilson
On Dec 3, 2006, at 5:19 AM, openhealth@yahoogroups.com wrote: fostering the development of open standards, not condemning them. I fully agree that standards must be implemented, even have multiple interoperable implementations from different code bases. But it would be illogical to toss out

[openhealth] Re: [Amazon S3

2006-03-27 Thread Wayne Wilson
From: Tim.Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any other ideas for S3? 1) Wait for Google to offer it for free :) Seriously, Google already offers 2GB of free web 'mail' space. Someone has already figured out how to make a file system like interface to that. This is the tip of an iceberg in the

[openhealth] Re: Demonstrations Standards.

2006-03-24 Thread Wayne Wilson
This continues to be a good discussion. I highlighted some small snippets of previous replys because I think they get at two of the other significant factors involved in uptake of systems. Business models Clinical care models (My perspective is limited to the USA). Whatever else we might

[openhealth] Demonstrations Standards.

2006-03-22 Thread Wayne Wilson
Boy, is this discussion bringing back old memories, Dave Forslund reminds me exactly how old later on and I have some inline comments. Just below, Tom Beale suggests interoperability built on engineering principles. Some discussion follows about the difficulty of connecting systems with

Re: [openhealth] Digest Number 130

2006-01-20 Thread Wayne Wilson
openhealth@yahoogroups.com wrote: I'd like to see something like OSCHA help bring all of the disparate projects and software together into a single, unified voice for open standards. That would have a much better effect in making inroads than lawmakers trying to force a standard on the public

[openhealth] Re: WSIS Tunis

2005-11-10 Thread Wayne Wilson
Hi Molly, my colleague Mary Kratz will be at WSIS Tunis, although she will be representing US DOD TATRIC, she would be a very good contact to make about any projects that might be created. Please look her up there. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get