Your Place or Mine? MedCommons on Amazon EC2
Friday, January 26, 2007
Where do we store your MedCommons stuff? Where are the MedCommons computers?
When we launch our public retail service (soon), our intention is that PHR data will be backed up on Amazon Simple
Revolution Health and WebMD Announce
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Both Revolution Health and WebMD announced personal health record initiatives as part of major web site upgrades. These upgrades promise improvements in the ability of everyone to administer their
Federation of Clinical Services via PHR
Sunday, January 21, 2007
The value proposition for federation of clinical services is illustrated in Michael Porter's lecture. He contrasts the startling survival statistics across the nation's 139 heart transplant centers
Scaling Mt MedCommons
Thursday, January 18, 2007
So much has been written recently on the scaling of myspace.com to 100 million users, I thought it would be interesting to summarize how MedCommons supports 100 million or more users, after all, we
Amazing Michael Porter lecture
Sunday, January 7, 2007
Have you ever wondered why health information systems and standards are the way they are?
The healthcare provider sector has grown increasingly silent in recent months as consumer-centered employer
Google’s Health URL
Friday, December 15, 2006
Adam Bosworth’s excellent keynote and post in the Google blog are yet another call for portable, consumer-controlled health records. His speech refers to current health IT as a “travesty” and is
The Health Plans’ take on PHRs
Friday, December 15, 2006
In what’s starting to look like a trend, the health insurance industry has also jumped on the portable PHR bandwagon. This slide, taken from their Dec. 13 press release, is remarkable only by how
Dossia Announcement FAQ
Thursday, December 14, 2006
The first large scale deployment of personally controlled PHRs was announced last week. Up to 2.5 million PHR accounts will be setup and sponsored based on the Connecting for Health Common Framework
Presentation Added
Sunday, December 10, 2006
I started this public site with the slides from a recent presentation. Comments and questions are most welcome.
Adrian
The focus of this blog is on portable and consumer-controlled health records.
