CLOUD: Consortium for Local Ownership and Use of Data, Inc. » Health http://www.cloudinc.org The Power of People. Connected. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:01:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Power of Standards. A View from the Economist. http://www.cloudinc.org/cloud-standards/the-power-of-standards/ http://www.cloudinc.org/cloud-standards/the-power-of-standards/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:36:24 +0000 Paul http://www.cloudinc.org/?p=126 In a story that remains free notwithstanding the magazine’s recent movement of more content behind a pay wall, the brand new Economist takes an overview of cloud computing. It gets right to the point:

A storm brewing?
First is the familiar risk of technological lock-in, as rival companies promote their own, mutually incompatible, standards and formats, as they have done in the past.

CLOUD intends to solve that problem for information about you. What better way to avoid technological lock-in for Internet users than to create a multi-industry standard computing language that puts people back in charge of their own information? Turns out this approach addresses the Economist’s second and third concerns — privacy and security — too.

]]> http://www.cloudinc.org/cloud-standards/the-power-of-standards/feed/ 2 EHRs: There is no There There on the Internet http://www.cloudinc.org/cloud-health/there-is-no-there-there-on-the-internet/ http://www.cloudinc.org/cloud-health/there-is-no-there-there-on-the-internet/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:22:45 +0000 Gary http://health.cloudinc.org/?p=10 Just over a year ago at the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC, I posted an item to my personal blog at theendoflinearity.com on this topic, the idea that there are no destinations on the Internet.   Having wrestled with this topic for many months, it became clear that the challenge of ‘destination thinking’ from the real world was complicating solutions to topics like health care because it was focusing us on areas other than patients by which to find solutions.

The quest for the holy grail of the electronic health record is particularly difficult because of fundamental disagreements about matters as general as the scope of the “health” domain. What are the proper relationships between records made by examining physicians, diagnostic experts, health insurance companies, parties paying for health insurance, patients themselves, and others? What about schools that require particular vaccination records or physical examinations for athletic participation? Or financial service providers pricing annuities based on actuarial estimates?

This piece by Tevi Troy at the Washington Post highlights key issues that CLOUD can help address as we seek to solve this electronic health record challenge through new vectors and a change in your horizon.

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