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I currently maintain two blogs. Hans Oh’s eHealth Blog. This is my blog related to health care with a specific emphasis on eHealth. My regular blog chronicling my adventures in the world of competitive Scrabble . 2016 Information Architects, Inc.
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eHealth in Canada: When off-shoring software to India, include code quality metrics as a part of the contract
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Friday, 27 June 2014. When off-shoring software to India, include code quality metrics as a part of the contract. I understand the appeal of off-shoring software development to India: low rates, scalable team size, and a process that has really matured over the years. India is a serious and credible competitor for software development services. With a code quality plugin such as SonarQube. And measure the specific code quality metrics that matter. Code Coverage between 60% and 80%. This is essential ...
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eHealth in Canada: March 2011
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Thursday, 24 March 2011. EPrescribing - Is "Safety Last" an option? I had the privilege of attending an ePrescribing workshop recently. The provinces were well represented, as were pharmacies and Drug Information Systems vendors. I particularly appreciated feedback from the physicians at the meeting who had actually used ePrescribing systems in various pilots across the country. One of these physicians gave ePrescribing in it's current form a big thumbs down. The reason? The reality, unfortunately, is th...
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eHealth in Canada: ConnectingGTA: Finally a Shared EHR in Ontario
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Friday, 26 June 2015. ConnectingGTA: Finally a Shared EHR in Ontario. Ontario’s been struggling for years to get some form of Shared Electronic Health Record (EHR) off the ground. The closest thing they’ve had so far was South-Western Ontario’s ClinicalConnect (not so much of a shared EHR as a hub into the various systems in the region) or the Integrated Assessment Repository (used mostly for Mental Health Assessments across the province). 2 million encounters from 17 sites are added to the CDR every week.
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eHealth in Canada: eHealth 2013 impressions: A thousand points of light
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Monday, 10 June 2013. EHealth 2013 impressions: A thousand points of light. I've been attending Canada's eHealth conference for about 5 years now. This year felt different from previous years. The main question I kept asking myself at this conference was: "Wow, what this surgeon accomplished in their hospital pilot was fantastic! How do we roll her solution out to everyone else? That, I think, is the biggest gap in our current eHealth ecosystem. Every year we should pick the top three best eHealth pi...
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eHealth in Canada: October 2014
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Thursday, 23 October 2014. Healthcare Interoperability in Canada: Perfection is the Enemy of Good. Yesterday, as co-chair of the ITAC Interoperability and Standards Committee, I presented opening comments for an ITAC Health workshop on Interoperability. Details of the event can be found. Below is the text of my opening comments. I’m a software developer that got into healthcare about 10 years ago. When I joined healthcare, I was surprised by a number of things I saw. Things like:. Healthcare IT in Canada...
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eHealth in Canada: March 2013
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Tuesday, 26 March 2013. Software Procurement in the Public Sector. Below is the talk I gave at the event and some suggestions vendors made for improving the public sector procurement process. Building a Software System is not like Building a Subway System. You do years of up front planning, specifying all the details of the entire project long before the first shovel breaks earth. Why do you do this? Because re-routing a subway tunnel is very, very expensive. You have to get it right the first time.
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eHealth in Canada: May 2015
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Friday, 22 May 2015. Obstacles to CDA adoption in Ontario. I'm really starting to wonder now if CDA will ever take hold in Ontario. There was a time when I admired the adoption of CDA in the U.S. as a part of their impressive "Meaningful Use" initiative. I have worked first hand with CDA documents from various EMR systems in the U.S. and have seen many successful Health Information Exchanges launch in the U.S. based on CCDA XDS repositories. I will be watching how EMR interoperability unfolds south of th...
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eHealth in Canada: June 2013
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Friday, 28 June 2013. What Ontario can learn from Northern Europe. Earlier this month, I participated in an event hosted by the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement. The goal of the event was to bring together thought leaders from seven countries to discuss and debate Canada's Healthcare Strategy. Paul Martin, Deb Matthews, Don Drummond and Michael Guerriere were all there and it was an excellent discussion. Details of the event can be found. Below are some of the ideas that caught my attention.
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