Future of Health IT: Trends and Scenarios

Starting today as CTO, Cielo Medsolutions

I'm excited to announce that as of today I have left my longtime job at the University of Michigan Medical School, to become Chief Technology Officer for Cielo Medsolutions LLC, purveyor of clinical quality management solutions for primary care physicians and practices.

I'll be blogging more often in my new position, but may not get fully up to speed until I've been on board here a week or two. Stay tuned for more news to come. Meanwhile, I'm back to trying to jump onto this speeding train!

links for 2010-03-19

• Windfinder - Wind & weather forecast Chiavari/Sestri Levante
  Weather forecast for town near the Cinque Terre
  (tags: italy cinqueterre)

links for 2010-03-16

• Analytical eye: viewing through the data jungle - Research News 03-2010-Topic 7 – Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
  Unmanageable volumes of data accumulate in our digitized working world. Scientists are developing analytical techniques that make use of our ability to identify complex data relationships by means of pictorial images.
  (tags: infoviz information+science visualization)

links for 2010-03-15

• YouTube - The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube and the Politics of Authenticity
  Orwell (1984) and Huxley (Brave New World) envisioned their future (our present) differently. Huxley nailed it.
  (tags: web2.0 media+analysis social+media)

links for 2010-03-09

• 3D graphics & reality fuse on the fly - University of Oxford
  'Software developed at Oxford University is making it possible to fuse real and 3D computer-generated visuals on the fly. The Parallel Tracking and Mapping [PTAM] software is a camera-tracking system which maps the environment around you as seen through a camera and turns real world surfaces into platforms for virtual objects or characters without the need for pre-stored maps or tags.'
  (tags: visualization ubicomp augmented+reality)
• A special report on managing information: Data, data everywhere | The Economist
  ',,,the world contains an unimaginably vast amount of digital information which is getting ever vaster ever more rapidly. This makes it possible to do many things that previously could not be done: spot business trends, prevent diseases, combat crime and so on. Managed well, the data can be used to unlock new sources of economic value, provide fresh insights into science and hold governments to account. But they are also creating a host of new problems. Despite the abundance of tools to capture, process and share all this information—sensors, computers, mobile phones and the like—it already exceeds the available storage space (see chart 1). Moreover, ensuring data security and protecting privacy is becoming harder as the information multiplies and is shared ever more widely around the world. '
  (tags: visualization consumer+health+search findability bioinformatics biomedical+informatics)
• Cinqueterre Travel Guide - Hotels, Restaurants, Sightseeing in Cinqueterre - New York Times Travel
  NY Times website section on the Cinque Terre, Italy.
  (tags: cinqueterre italy travel)

links for 2010-03-08

• ATNA Profile FAQ - IHE Wiki
  The Audit Trail and Node Authentication (ATNA) Integration Profile establishes security measures which, together with the Security Policy and Procedures, provide patient information confidentiality, data integrity and user accountability. This environment is considered the Security Domain and can scale from a department, to enterprise or affinity domain.
  (tags: atna ihe hipaa audit+trail)
• Life as a Healthcare CIO: Standardizing Audit Trails
  What is an audit trail and how does it differ from a disclosure log? Audit is simply a record of system events -- it does not get into "why" as does accounting for disclosures (which includes release of information to external organizations for a specific purpose).
  (tags: HIPAA audit+trail)
• Audit Trail and Node Authentication - IHE Wiki
  The Audit Trail and Node Authentication (ATNA) Integration Profile establishes security measures which, together with the Security Policy and Procedures, provide patient information confidentiality, data integrity and user accountability.
  (tags: HIPAA audit+trail)

links for 2010-03-07

• H O T E L Ca' D'ANDREAN __MANAROLA---CINQUE TERRE---

links for 2010-03-05

• Engelbart Mural
  Visual Insight's mural showing the evolution of technology during Doug Engelbart's lifetime, up to and past now. Cool!
  (tags: technology+and+society innovation visualization mindmap)
• Slow Travel Italy - Taking trains in Italy, everything you need to know
  (tags: italy travel)