Who should Own a Patient’s Health Data, Where should they be Stored, and How should they be Exchanged?
on Nov 19, 2009A thought-provoking conversation on LinkedIn (see this link) examines whether the patient data stored in the national health information network (NHIN) will, within the next five years, likely be "owned" by major firms such as Oracle, Google, and Mic...

Screenshots of Two Novel Health IT Programs
on Nov 16, 2009In an effort to "raise the bar" of health IT creativity and utility, I'm posting screenshots of two novel health IT software programs we've been developing: the Life Chart and CCR-Plus. Life Chart ProgramOur LifeChart program depicts a patient's ment...

Simple, Low-Cost, Secure Health Data Exchange
on Nov 13, 2009The following diagram presents our novel, economical way to exchange patient health information, from anywhere, easily and securely. The system uses Microsoft Office to send comprehensive patient data between clinicians, via e-mail, with just a...

Health IT: Comparing Cloud Computing and Desktop Applications (Part 2)
on Nov 9, 2009This post is a continuation of the debate about the pros and cons of Cloud versus Desktop computing, which starts at this link.The cloud computing expert I've been debating responded to my comments by writing:We are just from different camps of softw...

Health IT: Comparing Cloud Computing and Desktop Applications (Part 1)
on Nov 9, 2009I just responded to a comment posted to Linked-In at this link. The comment began: Health care IT is moving from desktop application to complex multi-faceted Enterprise systems. The OS, wireless devices, and databases are much more sophisticated than...

Health IT: Comparing Cloud Computing and Desktop Applications
on Nov 8, 2009I just responded to a comment posted to Linked-In at this link. The comment began: Health care IT is moving from desktop application to complex multi-faceted Enterprise systems. The OS, wireless devices, and databases are much more sophisticated than...

Promoting Community Wellbeing by Fostering Mind-Body-Spirit Development
on Oct 14, 2009I just submitted an idea to the Changemakers, an organization that describes itself as "...a community of action where we all collaborate on solutions." They are looking for ideas about how to improve mental health and community wellbeing with the wo...

Increasing Global Empathy by Understanding the Essence of Humanity
on Oct 12, 2009For the past three decades, I've been envisioning ways to foster the realization of positive human potential and wellbeing. Toward that end, I've long imagined a world where people from all nations, societies, ethnicities and faiths have a deep compr...

Convergence of 3 Core Healthcare Reform Issues: American values, personal responsibility, and pragmatic solutions
on Oct 8, 2009This post is a submission to the Hastings Center's Values and Health Reform Connection, a new group blog on American values and why they matter in health reform.In the past few weeks, there's been a wonderful convergence of discussions focused on...

Live Video of our Node-to-Node, Publisher/Subscriber Architecture in Action!
on Oct 6, 2009Two weeks ago, at this link, I discussed the need for a convenient, low-cost, resource conserving, and secure way to exchange patient health information using a decentralized (peer-to-peer/node-to-node) publisher/subscriber cyber-architecture, e...