| Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS, Founder of Linux Medical News, Associate Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center Houston’s School of Health Information Sciences
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When: Friday May 23rd, 2008 - 11AM to 1PM (Don’t come late, or you’ll miss something) Where: MD. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Faculty Center Conference Room — FC 1.2002 A complimentary lunch catered by the French Corner will be reserved if you RSVP Duke at (email addressed remove to protect the innocent. Contact me through fredtrotter.com if you want to get it.) Directions: To Medical Center http://www.tmc.edu/maps/map Garage 10 is on right side of map (Take MD Anderson Blvd off Holcombe Blvd). Park in Garage 10 which crosswalks to the hospital building. Take the parking elevator to the 3rd floor. Just beyond the ‘A’ elevators there is a sky/crosswalk that (there will be a security/police desk by the entrance to the crosswalk). The entrance to the Faculty Center building will be on your right once you cross Holcombe. Go through the revolving door, down the hallway to a bank of elevators. Take the elevators to the 1st floor. On the first floor, enter FC1.2000-SBC Telehealth Center FC1.2002 will be the first classroom on the right. |
| About the Topic:
The Evolution of Open Source in Medicine Where has health IT been? Where is it going? Where is it likely to end up and why? These and other questions might be answered at this talk. |
About the Speaker:Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS , Dr. Valdes is a Board Certified Psychiatrist with a twenty two year history of working in the healthcare IT arena. He is an associate professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center Houston’s School of Health Information Sciences. He is the founder of Linux Medical News, and is a national expert on free and open source medical software and interoperability standards. Prior to medical school he worked for IBM and Compaq as a software and quality control engineer as well as his own software company. He completed medical school at Southwestern in Dallas (1998), residency training at the University of Texas at Houston Department of Psychiatry (2001). He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Houston (1990) and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M (1985). |
Dr. Valdes to speak at Houston HIMSS
Memorial Hermann CEO featured in podcast
Not sure if she discusses IT directly, but the fact that she is participating in a podcast interview at all warrants inclusion here.
Here is a link to the Modern Healthcare podcast Healthcare finance: The challenges ahead in 2008
I have not listened to it yet, but I will add information if Health IT matters are covered specifically.
-FT
A Washington-Texas dialouge
The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston is hosting a summit on sustainable health information exchange
From the website:
Why Attend?
The proposed conference is different from other meetings focused on HIT adoption in that it:
- Has a regional, rather than national or local focus. This meeting is intended to serve as a model for future regional meetings in other areas of the US.
- Emphasizes a two-way interaction between participants. Approximately half of the main meeting on April 16th will be spent in two-way interactions between participants and/or between participants and panelists of government officials. A primary goal of the meeting is to allow stakeholders to provide feedback to presenters including state and federal government officials.
- Provides a non-commercial forum for working towards a regional consensus regarding HIT. Meeting sponsorship is restricted to non-profit entities (including foundations), health care payers, and government. No funds from HIT vendors will be accepted.
- Has technology-assisted pre and post-conference activities that will provide a forum for effective dialogue.
Who Should Attend?
- Business, Hospital and Community Leaders
- Healthcare Providers and Payors
- Healthcare Information Technology Leaders
- Policy Makers
- Physicians and Nurses
- State, County, City Representatives
- Healthcare Consultants and Academicians
CMEs/CEUs
- ACCME CEUs
- ANNCC CEUs
Rediclinic, Memorial Hermann, and HEB
You have been living in the dark in Houston medical care if you did not know that Memorial Hermann is co-branding retail clinics with Rediclinic inside several HEB stores. What is interesting and relevant from an IT perspective is that Rediclinic is advertising the service via Google Ads. Rediclinic is currently the only advertiser when you search for the term “HEB” on Google. You heard it hear first!
Here is what you see if you do a search for “HEB”:
Careflash article in Houston Business Journal
Careflash, a local Houston startup focused on social media for patient/caregiver communities, has been written up in this Houston Business Journal article. The article covers some of the work that Careflash is doing with M.D. Anderson. I just hear Careflash CEO Jay Drayer speak at Netsquared, which I will be covering more later.
-FT
Health
Christopher McCord recently wrote me and encouraged me to start tracking Health IT companies in Houston. In true form I put the problem back on him and he helped me come up with an initial list!
Contact me through fredtrotter.com if you would like to be added.
-FT
Memorial System in Lufkin gets covered in local newspaper.
The Lufkin Daily News is covering the electronics records deployment in the Lufkin Memorial Health System. It is always good to see high tech prosper in rural areas!
-FT
NAHIT definition forums coming to Houston.
The National Alliance for Health Information Technology (NAHIT) is hosting several forums to discuss the definitions of several simple HIT terms. One of the three forums will be in Houston on February 13, 2008 at the Memorial Hermann Hospital System. The terms that will be discussed:
- Electronic Health Record (EHR)
- Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
- Personal Health Record (PHR)
- Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO)
- Health Information Exchange (HIE)
take a second and register for the forum coming to Houston! If you cannot make it, try submitting a definition directly
-FT
How do you keep up?
What do you do to keep up with what is going on in Healthcare IT? For me there are a couple of important resources.
LinuxMedNews.com (run by a Houstonian, Ignacio Valdes) is the only way to make sense of what is happening in Free and Open Source Health IT.
FredTrotter.com (my personal site, and shameless plug) I have lots of interesting things to say, especially if you enjoy ranting.
HIStalk.com is the only place to find solid up to the minute gossip about Health Information. Like LinuxMedNews, this is a “deep” blog. That means that it is actually worthwhile to read the comments on the posts.
EMRupdate.com is the only place to argue about EHR/EMR technologies.
HITS daily newsletter is a daily health IT newsletter. I almost always read at least one article.
Please comment with other good HIT resources, especially ones that are Houston oriented.
Enjoy,
-FT
Health IT in Houston initial post
Hi,
My name is Fred Trotter. I am a Health IT consultant living in Houston T.X. Houston has a healthcare ecosystem like no other. Along with being one of the largest cities in the United States, Houston has the largest medical center in the world. We have a unique infrastructure, including the new Metro line that provides transportation directly into the medical center, that helps to make healthcare, along with oil, one of the largest industries in Houston.
But what about Health Information Technology (Health IT) in Houston? Strangely Google provides little information about Houston’s Health IT systems. Yet Houston is not only a leader in Healthcare technology, we are a leader in Health IT technology.
This blog will be about the way computers make healthcare better in Houston. Hopefully I will be doing podcasts, email interviews, and all kinds of other content about the movers and shakers in the local Houston Health IT (HIT) community. I am trying to think about which of my Houston HIT friends I will be interviewing first!
Regards,
Fred Trotter