Mind to Market

The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has recently published a report to the White House on the impact of Health IT on Healthcare. PCAST is an esteemed group of appointed scientists and engineers whose mission it is to provide an unbiased assessment of matters technic

In an effort to solve the mystery of what is causing bees to spontaneously die off around the country; scientists from two distinctly different disciplines have joined forces; entomologists and military scientists. I am always fascinated at how groups in dissimilar fields can connect to find solutio

David Siegel has taken a futurist's view in describing what a world with the Semantic Web would be like in his book Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web to Transform Your Business. In this world it seems that everything works seamlessly: machines can talk to other machines and to humans and cars and

With the wide spread adoption of Facebook by the general public social networking has hit the main stream. Facebook's strategy of keeping their interface as simple as possible has made it easy to use and accessible to many but has limited its usefulness in expressing and transferring knowledge about

I've long been a fan of open access to scientific documentation; providing free online access for scientific work, especially that funded by public sources. A recent research project on Alzheimer's has taken this a step further by providing access to experimental data as it is produced. This is a ma

If systems are thought of as having a vertical structure, building them would proceed from one end to the other; either start at the top and work down or start at the bottom and work up. An iterative approach may require multiple end to end swipes but they would most likely proceed in the same end-

The Summer Health IT Summit was held in Denver this week drawing an energetic group of health IT decision makers from across the country. The topic of the conference was the Adoption and Implementation of the Meaningful Use Rule. The presentations ran the gamut from how to get started with install

Last Tuesday the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) hosted the Consumer Choice Technology Hearing and made the audio and slide presentations available live via webconference. To those that may be unnerved by the id

Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Semantic Technology Conference, SemTech, to get caught up on the latest technology. Semantic Web technologies seem to moving from the domain of a few evangelists, including Tim Berners-Lee, into the main stream with presentations given by Facebook and Go

Sometime back I blogged about the problems facing Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIO) in this country; that they were having trouble getting buy in from providers and lacked a compelling value proposition. The American Health Information Community (AHIC), an advisory group to the federa