Sunday, February 24th8:00 am – 5:00 pm Your Connection to New Technology, Training and Networking This one-day event will concentrate on best practice sharing between industry professionals. Leading users of Microsoft technology will share their insight and provide practical strategies on how they apply to the healthcare setting. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear user-driven [...]
Archive for September, 2007
A good collection of Microsoft Healthcare Blogs
Roberto Ruggeri, a Senior Technical Strategist with Microsoft Worldwide Health has assembled a good list of Blogs (his included) that focus on Microsoft Technologies. Find the complete list here!
Screen shots of a Google Health EHR prototype!
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. I think it’s safe to say they’ve done a pretty good job executing on that mission in web search, geospatial information, academic journals and innumerable other areas. Now Google appears to be making a significant effort to systematize both the [...]
Partnership for Health Information Standards Fall Conference
The Trick to Standards, the Partnership for Health Information Standards Conference, will take place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from October 30th -November 1, 2007. Updates on Infoway’s Standards Collaborative and its services such as Conformance, Maintenance, Education and Training; SDO presentations, SC Working Group sessions and presentations on such topics as SNOMED CT and LOINC. [...]
WIHIR: Smarter Health Seminar – Michael Kirby – Sept. 26, 2007
WATERLOO SMARTER HEALTH ‘WHY NOT’ ANNIVERSARY SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT The Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research and The InfraNET Project, University of Waterloo invite you to a very special seminar celebrating the University of Waterloo’s 50th Anniversary Theme ‘Why Not’. Guest Speaker: Hon. Michael Kirby (BSc, MA, PhD, LLD), Chair of the Mental Health Commission of [...]
CHI Accounces Clinician eHealth Support Network
This week, Canada Health Infoway announced the formation of a peer-to-peer initiative called the Clinician eHealth Support Network. Physicians, nurses and pharmacists from across Canada interested in leveraging the benefits of eHealth will benefit from the initiative that will see a network of tech savvy colleagues provide mentorship and assistance in the development of electronic [...]
The Economist introduces Health 2.0
In an article entitled Health 2.0 published in the latest Technology Quarterly, the Economist asks: “Technology and society: Is the outbreak of cancer videos, bulimia blogs and other forms of “user generated” medical information a healthy trend?” This article combined with the recent Health 2.0 conference have created an explosion of activity, commentary, analysis and [...]
Introducing Health 2.0
Scribe Media put together a video to open the recent Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco and I thought it would be equally appropriate as an opening post to this blog. Or see the video at Scribe Media!
