My blog on the technology/society web site, O’Reilly Radar: http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/07/health-and-human-services-fina.html Summary: Meaningful use requires support for data sharing, patient access, structured formats, and decisionsupport.
I posted pointers to some of these already. Now you can get all five of the O’Reilly Radar interviews with people in government and health care: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/topic/Health The conference is in mid-July, and we will be videotaping all the talks. I’ll report here when I find out where they’ll be posted.
A few people expressed interest in this conference and asked me to report back on it. So here’s my blog: http://oreil.ly/ccK4vg I didn’t catch any talks directly related to government. One interesting talk was on implementing mobile applications in health care using open source SOA tools and libraries.
On O’Reilly Radar: Fred Trotter gives a history of open source inhealth IT and explains how open source–and even more, open data–iscrucial: http://oreil.ly/cGXmRq
From Apache to Health and Human Services: Apache co-founder Brian Behlendorf discusses the CONNECT health data project Brian Behlendorf, one of the founders of the Apache Web server project and the CollabNet cooperative software development company, is contracting now with the Department of Health and Human Services on a software project they opened up aRead… Read more »
I heard about this from a colleague: http://www.epractice.eu/en/node/288847 The scope is broad and the deadline for submissions is February 8. I don’t have more information about the journal.
On Friday I posted a blog about an proposal for protecting the privacy of citizens and federal employees who use federal web sites. A more policy-oriented blog is now at: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/08/privacy-and-open-government-co.html Topics: Can the government be your friend? Anonymity, pseudonymity, and participation Who should run an OpenID server? Thought experiment: could federal agencies offer anonymousRead… Read more »
I think this blog, although it focuses on technical solutions, would interest GovLoop readers because of its relationship to public participation. Here is the intro. — For almost a decade, thanks to privacy laws, U.S. government web sites have been prohibited from using cookies to maintain information on visitors between sessions. (Session cookies are allowedRead… Read more »
My blog from the conference: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/personal-democracy-forum-confe.html The first day at the Personal Democracy Forum conference revolved around the freedom to experiment, necessary infrastructure, and the need to change.
Third blog on upcoming Personal Democracy Forum conference, just published: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/personal-democracy-forum-ramp–2.html