Open Source Is Making a Difference in Health Information Tech...
summary
OSU Open Source Lab runs infrastructure that now informs federal health IT decisions and a government-built CONNECT project is released under an open license and is active in seven federal agencies including DoD and SSA. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act channels about two billion dollars into health IT, meaningful use rules explicitly permit open source EHRs and require patient access to records. Medical errors harm ~1.5 million people yearly and cause ~100,000 deaths; interoperability, sustainability and privacy remain concrete problems to solve. Meaningful Use
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Introduction to health IT
- 1:52Medical errors and information gaps
- 4:20US healthcare interoperability challenges
- 5:45Government investment in health IT
- 7:08CONNECT project and open source adoption
- 8:33Sustainability of open source in government
- 9:35Meaningful Use and open standards
- 11:00Personal health records and mobile apps
- 12:46Impact of medical errors and IT solutions
- 13:29Call to open source community action
- 14:17Q&A: Privacy and data ownership
- 17:01Q&A: Emergency data access and HIPAA
- 18:29Q&A: Regional health information solutions
- 19:33Q&A: HIPAA and evolving privacy laws
- 21:23Q&A: Rethinking healthcare privacy models
- 22:50Q&A: Break-glass access in emergencies
- 23:53Q&A: Software reliability in healthcare
- 26:42Q&A: Culture shift in personal health records
- 27:45Q&A: Encouraging community participation
- 28:26Q&A: Doctors' notes and legal concerns
- 29:05Q&A: Regulatory standards and open source
- 30:08Closing remarks and next steps
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