Video of NIH Lecture on Advances in Clinical Interfaces Available

NIH’s Biomedical Computing Group putting together a lecture on advanced clinical interfaces. The event was webcasted and the video is available here. If you’ve been doing good clinical interfaces for a while you’re not likely to find lots of new information in the lecture but it will reiterate some of the most important aspects of good design and user interfaces for complex systems like clinical decision support. If you’re new to healthcare IT, you will get a good deal of information on why designing easy to use interfaces for physicians is really hard to do right.

A number of open source advocates, including myself, have been recommending for a while that CCHIT make its certification process more amenable and friendly to free and open source software (FOSS). I wanted to congratulate CCHIT for taking the request seriously – they agreed to meet with FOSS advocates at HIMMS. They’ve been considerate enough to setup a conference call capability so that people who can’t travel to Chicago can meet via screen share remotely (after all, open source developers don’t exactly have a travel budget).

Federal Computer Week hosted an eSeminar talking about the NHIN. It’s a good presentation and if you’re in an healthcare IT space with any relevance to RHIOs, you should check out the Federal Health Architecture overview below. ONCHIT – Connecting to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) the Road Ahead Publish at Scribd or explore others: Presentations & Slid magazine healing

In this fourth installment explaining clinical interoperability in plain English, Charlie Harp talks about semantics or the “meaning of data”. Charlie is the CEO and founder of Clinical Architecture and has spent the last twenty years designing and developing software solutions in the healthcare industry. Here’s what he had to say in his final part of a series I’ve be doing on interoperability. Clinical Interoperability – The Antics of Semantics

Given all the attention being given to healthcare IT these days (especially because of the stimulus bill), many of my readers were wondering how to get into the market (jobs, contracts, etc). I asked Sarah Scrafford, who regularly writes on the topic of pharmacy technician online programs, to tell us what she’s seeing these days. Here’s what she had to say about the healthcare IT job market. There’s an inherent satisfaction in working in the healthcare field – you feel fulfilled because you’re helping people get better and get over ailments that get them down.

I get tons of email for healthcare IT advice (which I love, so keep the questions coming) and every once in a while a question comes along that I decide to answer here since I think it will be interesting to many readers. Here’s a great one from yesterday: I am a frequent reader of your blog. I find your writing very pertinent to my own business. I run a development shop that creates EMR software and our company is currently in a debate about the future of our application architecture.

A friend of mine, Jim Rose, reminded me that a request for nominations for two Health IT Federal Advisory Boards (FACAs) went out from HHS today. Thanks for pointing that out, Jim. These advisory boards will lead the guidance and direction on standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria for health information technology adoption. I would love to represent all us “little guys” who are striving for practical solutions to healthcare standards and certification criteria.

Last week I asked Charlie Harp to explain what clinical interoperability is – in plain english. Charlie is the CEO and founder of Clinical Architecture and has spent the last twenty years designing and developing software solutions in the healthcare industry. Here’s what he had to say in his third part of a series I’ve be doing on interoperability. In this last article he presents some techniques that can be used right now to do real clinical interoperability.

Last week I asked Charlie Harp to explain what clinical interoperability is – in plain english. Charlie is the CEO and founder of Clinical Architecture and has spent the last twenty years designing and developing software solutions in the healthcare industry. Here’s what he had to say in his second part of a series I’ll be doing on interoperability. Now that we have a documented definition for clinical interoperability and its macro components, the next reasonable question is: “Why is clinical interoperability important?

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