Richard Chennault
It appears that a true user centered identity management solution for the healthcare market is on the cusp of reality. In June Microsoft with little fan fair incorporated OpenID into the PHR HealthVault. A health care company and Microsoft recently demonstrated (or at least attempted) their joint collaboration of PHR/EMR interoperability between the electronic medical … Read More “OpenID, Microsoft and health care” »
The CEO of Aetna presented which gave some gravitas to the presentation. However he started off by bragging about how big they are. 3200 employees in information technology, fifth largest data warehouse and third largest health plan. When you sign in you can go to your PHR by member. Funny guy the president of Aetna … Read More “Health 2.0: Aetna” »
Microsoft HealthVault and another company jointly demonstrated their collaboration of exchanging a health summary from the health care company to Microsoft HealthVault. The solution requires patients create accounts at the health companies website and MS HealthVault. Once logged into the health companies site a link enabling the exchange of health information from electronic medical record … Read More “Health 2.0: Microsoft HealthVault and a health care company” »
WebMD WebMD health record enables printing and faxing records to health providers. It can track basic labs. The information can be imported by screening exam done at the work site or the reference lab. WebMD PHR has a medication list. It flags allergies. WebMD will work with employer to incorporate drug health plan benefits of … Read More “Health 2.0: WebMD” »
Web logs are mostly about what the writers think. At least good ones in my opinion. However sometimes opinions external to the blog have an impact. I’ve been critical of the entire Web 2.0 hype and even went as far as adding a criticism section to the Wikipedia section on Web 2.0. Here is a … Read More “Web 2.0 is dead” »
Thanks to Robert McNally for pointing out an informative ComputerWorld article about companies embracing scoial networks. The most notable quote is: “companies must avoid the “Kumbaya Zone” — the place where social media is ultimately a time-waster and has little business value.” — Jonathan Yarmis The ComputerWorld article may be found here by clicking here: … Read More “Corporate use of social media” »
Over the years I’ve managed my own home web server in various forms. My first web server started on a RedHat distribution back in 2001 and then morphed to IIS running Sharpoint. Now it is finally back to Ubuntu. All of this running on old antiquated systems (even in 2001). However the times are a … Read More “New from Virtualization” »
Favourite quote of the day, “If your program needs goto (especially in C++) the design is screwed.” –Erunno Thanks Faceboo for lowering my respect for your platform. I’ll be the first to admit I am a bad programmer, so bad I had to become a enterprise architect to avoid programming. Seriosly though, even I know … Read More “GOTO Facebook” »
A colleauge of mine was interested in utilizing social networking as an adjunct to a project she is running. The idea was to use a Web 2.0 technology that would enable people to connect with people with similar interest. “Easy!”, I said. FaceBook just released their platform as open source. Of course I had only … Read More “FaceBook OpenPlatform? More like SadFace BrokenPlatform” »
One of the better quotes I’ve read regarding the steps a corporation should take when luanching into social media was made by Valdis Krebs, “…focusing first on the sociology of building networks and then supporting those social networks with technology — the correct sequence of attention…”