A group of clinicians launched a nonprofit website for doctors that's designed to promote the transformation of healthcare through the use of IT. Clinicians are sharing their EHR successes, complaints and more via videos, blog posts, news and resources.

What do you think?


http://doctorshelpingdoctorstransformhealthcare.org/

One big challenge in health informatics is to obtain structured and coded data in clinical practice and then being able to make different systems understand their meaning - aka the 'semantic interoperability'. Biomedical terminology, like SNOMED, is important; however having common 'content models' (such as how to represent blood pressure measurement or APGAR score) is essential. These are, in engineering terms, are computable information models. It is really these…

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The Interoperability Reference Architecture v1.0 document is now in its final form, the document is available from the link below. The document has been re-shaped in order to centre on the HISO 10040 series HIE Architecture Building Blocks, which the RA incorporates and expands upon. The supporting material, which made up a large part of our earlier contributions, has been moved to a new appendices section. This is not designed to diminish the importance of this material but to improve…

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The British Computer Society have an article about New Zealand's health IT scene:

"New Zealand has developed health informatics to drive efficiencies. Its size and dispersed population have led to innovative uses of technology, acting as a pilot market for broader application in the UK. Malcolm Pollock, Director of New Zealand’s National Institute for Health Innovation, explains how..."…

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The US open data platform that runs the data.gov website is being open sourced for other governments to use:

Last week, President Obama’s unprecedented efforts to advance open and transparent Government reached an important milestone. As part of a joint effort by the United States and India to build an open government platform, the U.S. team has deposited open source code– an important benchmark in developing the Open…

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The BBC has a series of infographics about traffic accidents and road deaths. I'd like to see probabilities of dying for the different sections of roads rather than absolute numbers, but it is still a great use of internet-friendly graphics to show the statistics.…

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The University of Auckland is now live on iTunes. You can download lots of health innovation related lectures including some great talks on Bioengineering and Brain Science.

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New eBooklet from the IT Health Board with case studies that show how New Zealanders are benefiting from information technology solutions:

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Here are all the presentations from the HINZ 2011 Conference in Auckland, New Zealand:

 

You can also download the papers from…

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