John Sharp is an IT Manager for a major medical center in Northeast Ohio. Areas of expertise include: ehealth, personal health records, Web 2.0 technologies, social media and project management. He is active in the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society and the American Medical Informatics Association. The opinions expressed on this blog are those of the author.
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HIMSS – A Limited Showing for Web 2.0
March 4, 2007
Looking at educational sessions and vendor presentations, Web 2.0 made a relatively minor appearance. There was one session on Wikis, my eSession with Jack Mason (Healthnex blog) and maybe one other. Perhaps this should not be surprising in that the large vendors representing proprietary applications rather than open source. Open source was represented by the VA’s VistA EMR. Revolution Health was mentioned by Colin Powell who in on their board. While Web 2.0 does not offer core functionality to healthcare yet, blogs, wikis, social networking and tagging have future capabilities yet to be discovered. Maybe Steve Case should keynote next year and stir things up.
Report from HIMSS – Microsoft’s New Commitment to Healthcare
February 27, 2007
In addition to Steve Ballmer keynoting at HIMSS ‘07, two announcements from Microsoft demonstrate this new commitment.
- Microsoft announced its planned purchase of the Medstory health search engine
- Their strategy is outlined in a Q&A for journalists
In addition, there is a lot of interest in Azyxxi.
The text of Ballmer’s speech is now available.
Report from HIMSS – Government Initiatives in Health IT – simplify
February 27, 2007
The keynote at HIMSS ‘07 this morning, Phil Bredesen, Governor of Tennessee, had 3 recommendations for moving ahead with interoperability. At the risk of being accused of oversimplifying, he boldly suggested that we 1) simplify our goals for information exchange, such as, just focusing on eprescribing using simplified standards, 2) establish a beachhead instead of trying to do everything, and find solutions which are acceptable to everyone, not just early adopters or large academic medical centers. I was impressed with his understanding of IT, his willingness to research current IT standards and his knowledge of the business.
By the way, check out Tim Gee’s coverage of HIMSS ‘07 including photos.
HIMSS 2007 Activities
January 27, 2007
HIMSS 2007 is coming up in a month. I have three main activities there:
- an eSession on Web 2.0: Beyond Open Source – As an emerging technology, Web 2.0, which includes blogs, podcasts and other tools, has the advantage of ease of implementation and ease of use. Sound implementation strategies will be discussed. (with Jack Mason of IBM HealthNex)
- a Roundtable – Online Patient Interaction: The Growing Use of Patient Portals – This roundtable discussion session will focus on the features and functions of the growing number of patient-centered portals offered by
healthcare provider and payor organizations. With Deborah Kohn of Dak Systems Consulting - the eHealth Special Interest Group which I chair
Looks like it will be an interesting time especially in the city rising from the ashes.
