Health information technology – Science, Technology, Society

Fred Trotter, health IT hacktivist

Posted on November 28, 2012April 8, 2013 by timbatchelder

Data: Bringing Hidden Healthcare Data Into the Open
Sarah Mitroff, wired.com

Self-described health IT hacktivist and author Fred Trotter has hatched a plan to bring hidden healthcare data into the open.

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Health 2.0 Challenge #1: Getting Doctors Off Fax

Posted on October 14, 2012February 24, 2013 by timbatchelder

Health 2.0 Challenge #1: Getting Doctors Off Fax Machines
Richard MacManus, readwriteweb.com

Today at the DC to VC: Health IT Startup Showcase, a collaboration between Morgenthaler Ventures and the Health 2.0 Conference, I saw firsthand how health IT startups are tackling big, real-world problems. Coming from a world where…

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Health 2.0: Bridging the Senior Gap (medmeme.com)
NYC plays matchmaker to hook up healthcare groups with startups to commercialize tech tools (medcitynews.com)
Where research, rigour and context reside – ‘Patients Like Me’ (youthhealth20.com)
Upcoming Health Care Conferences: October-November 2012 (medmeme.com)
Health 2.0 San Francisco, September 2011, “Son et Lumiere” (healthblawg.typepad.com)
A Shift in the Power Dynamic: Health 2.0 (projecthealthdesign.typepad.com)

Senator Kennedy: Advocate for Healthcare IT and Reform

Posted on September 2, 2009July 21, 2013 by timbatchelder

The death of Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) marks an important milestone in e-health and health-care IT as one of its more vigorous champions is now gone. Since the Kennedy brothers went to my high school and were I feel amongst our strongest leaders as a country I feel a special sense of sorrow with his passing. Indeed in listening to Obama‘s eulogy I reflected that as Obama said “For five decades, virtually every major piece of legislation to advance the civil rights, health and economic well being of the American people bore his name and resulted from his efforts”. Recently he sponsored the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which includes $19 billion for health IT advancement and funding to promote healthcare, medical research and the study of comparative effectiveness treatments. Fortunately the roadmap he has put into place will allow major investments in healthcare IT and reform. Now, it is time for us to continue his legacy.