I have been involved in a new S&I-affiliated initiative called RESTful Health Exchange (RHEx), which will test application of the REST-style (Representational State Transfer) architecture to health information exchange. REST is a popular approach of accessing and managing remote resources on the Internet that relies on a stateless, client-server, cacheable communications ...
Progress Report on e-Prescribing - Surescripts SafeRx Awards
Surescripts has unveiled the top 10 e-prescribing statesSurescripts announced on July 31, 2012 that Minnesota achieved the highest rate of e-prescribing use in the nation during 2011 to capture the number 1 ranking in its 7th annual Safe-Rx Awards. One thing that likely helped is former Republican Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty signed into law in 2008 legislation that required ...
NIH director Francis Collins talks at a workshop on electronic health data at Stanford, sponsored by a new nonprofit research organization that seeks to build a stronger health information network.A worthy goal for the nation's still-nascent electronic health-information revolution would be the active involvement of as much 10 percent of the U.S. population as clinical research ...
At the Health Forum and American Hospital Association 2012 Leadership Summit Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, held a Town Hall style meeting to discuss the federal government's role in leveraging clinical information systems for improved performance. Final rules governing Stage 2 of meaningful use are on track to be released later ...
In God We Trust: All Others Have to Bring DataEric Schmidt, chairman of Google, and Peter Thiel, technology investor, PayPal co-founder, and entrepreneur, participated in a lively debate at Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Aspen, CO, about the future of technology. Fortune's Adam Lashinsky moderated this sometimes heated discussion, where there was rarely any agreement, but an incredibly fascinating conversation.Schmidt ...
Surveillance in America: In search of stricter standards
Economist correspondents discuss the worrying ease with which federal and state authorities can track the communications of American citizens. via economist.c ...
Dr. Oz and a team of healthcare providers were at OHSU's Center for Health and Healing on July 16, 2012. More than 600 people who registered for the event got the chance to learn about common ailments that could be making them sick. Each received a free, 15-minute physical and walk away with a better knowledge of how they can improve their health. Using tabletop blood test devices and Practice Fusion's EHR, data from ...
The proposed framework for governance and operations of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) that the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) has described in the recent request for information (RFI) elicited a great deal of stakeholder input. (You can read the through all of the responses at regulations.gov HERE). Many industry stakeholders were ...
Designs and more : Creativeline
Amazing designs and creativity is what you will find at Creativeline. They design men’s wear, ladies wear, kids wear, bags etc. The exciting thing about Creativeline is that, they infuse quality African prints in their designs to give it that irresistible and modern look that will make you buy it. Check out the photos below and find time to get your customized shirts, dresses, ...
Scientists at CERN have announced their most recent results in the search for the Higgs boson (God particle). The Higgs particle, first hypothesized in the 1960s by physicist Peter Higgs and others, would help explain why elementary particles, such as quarks, have mass. Finding the Higgs—or ruling out its existence—was the prime motivation for building the Large Hadron Collider ...