Press release from HL7:
HL7 Launches Joint Argonaut Project to Advance FHIR
Leading Health IT industry vendors and providers collaborate with HL7 to accelerate development and adoption of FHIR
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA – December 4, 2014 – Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability in healthcare information technology with members in 55 countries, is pleased to…
The deadline for full papers has been extended from 15th December to 22nd December so you have an extra week to get papers in!
http://medinfo2015.com/#call-for-submissions
MEDINFO is the premier international health and biomedical informatics event. MEDINFO 2015 is hosted by…
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique
“Building Quality Systems, Delivering Useful Data”
The Ministry of Health in Mozambique is in the process of publishing National Standards and Guidelines for Patient-Level Systems, which will be supported by an HIS Certification Process evaluating the compliance of implemented electronic patient-level systems and the delivery of the data…
The Australasian College of Health Informatics (ACHI) has regular updates on health informatics and the activities of the ACHI Fellows and Members (including me!).
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Medinfo2015 will be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil on 19-23 August, 2015. Information will be continuously updated at www.medinfo2015.org The Brazilian LOC encourages you all to promote the Call for Submissions -…
Senior Bioinformatician (for China Kadoorie Biobank)
Closing Date : Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:00:00 GMT | Grade 8: £38,511 - £45,954 p.a.
We are seeking a full-time Senior Bioinformatician to work on one of the world’s biggest prospective epidemiological studies, the China Kadoorie Biobank Study (CKB, www.ckbiobank.org). You will…
Upcoming Westminster Health Forum:
Guest of Honour: Beverley Bryant, Director of Strategic Systems and Technology, NHS England
This seminar will provide an opportunity to discuss the delivery, roll out, and integration of electronic health records across health and social care.
Delegates will discuss the next steps for care.data following the release of the Government …
MCI Middle East is proud to announce the Middle East Healthcare Informatics Summit (MEHIS), which will be held in Shangri-La, Dubai from 26th to 28th October 2014. MEHIS will feature government, policy makers, healthcare providers and solution providers with the objective of transforming the region’s healthcare sector.
The summit will aim at highlighting latest developments in informatics which is a key to improving patient care, protecting…
Middle East Healthcare Informatics Summit, supported by AHIMA as a knowledge partner, will engage local and regional stakeholders to highlight the region's best practices in the Healthcare ICT sector. The summit will bridge the gap between policy makers, healthcare providers and solution providers with the objective of achieving top-line growth through innovative IT technologies. The summit will feature case studies,…
Apple has finally announced the new Apple Watch (previously thought to be called the iWatch by many). The product appears to be a unique wearable device that combines as-yet unrevealed sensor technology that connects with the wearer’s skin, an advanced pressure-sensitive display and novel hardware controls such as the “digital…
The UK government is currently working on a project called Care.Data that will extract healthcare data from doctor's offices and link it with data from hospitals and other government services. When this project was first announced there was a lot of negative press around issues of opting out of the data collection, informed consent and selling the data to commercial organisations.
Here's an interesting…
Google is renowned for its audacious "Moon Shot" projects - recent announcements have included delivery drones, smart contact lenses and…
We've previously discussed the use of Drones for Healthcare. Now Google has entered the drone delivery space with Project Wing:
I can imagine a device like this delivering prescriptions to rural patients (as opposed to dog food in the video), or even…
Earlier this year I launched a methodology for planning mHealth projects called (I hope not too grandly) ‘6 Steps to mHealth Success’. I’ve had a lot of positive feedback, and I thought it might be worthwhile to explain the thinking behind it.
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For over 6 months, I have been having the time of my life.
One weekend while reading EKG's on my new Christmas Chromebook, my then 13 year old asked a very profound question, "Dad, why would you want to read those on the small screen when you could use the TV." So in less than a minute he had the HDMI cord connected and I was reading the biggest EKG's of my lifetime.
The light bulb went off, so I started daydreaming about the what if, and after bouncing the idea off multiple…
The NPR has a great little story on the benefits of letting patients see the doctors computer screen during a consultation:
The woman was sitting on a gurney in the emergency room, and I was facing her, typing. I had just written…
Wired is reporting on a new start up company called Biomeme that aims to turn any iPhone into a disease-detecting portable laboratory:
Perelman is the CEO and co-founder of Biomeme. Backed by celebrity investor Mark Cuban, the Philadelphia startup is developing a piece of hardware that attaches to an iPhone and harnesses the device’s computing power and built-in…
Modern Healthcare is reporting that Chinese hackers have stolen a large number of non-medical records from a US hospital chain:
An outside group of hackers targeted …
Interesting interview in the NY Times with Mikey Dickerson who was part of the team (5 people to being with!) who fixed Healthcare.gov. Some highlights:
Having a multiyear project with no checks along the…
