Last week I had the pleasure of being invited to Indianapolis to give a talk at the Regenstrief Institute – an informatics and healthcare research organization – which also happens to host the founders of OpenMRS. For those not familiar with OpenMRS (which I assume to be most of you) it is open-source, enterprise electronic [...]
Entries from February 2010
Open Source Strategy: OpenMRS case study
The Big Apps come to Vancouver
Disappointed I hadn’t found this out sooner… Turns out the winners of New York’s Big Apps competition have created a Vancouver version of the winning application. Steven Lao and Victor Sima, creators of the Android phone application Wayfinder, won “Best Overall Application” and prize money of US$5000. The Wayfinder application is an augmented reality application [...]
Canada’s Three Tiered Healthcare System
Thanks to Premier Danny Williams’ comments, we are in another short bout of collective denial and misunderstanding of Canada’s healthcare system and the public perception thereof. 1. Denial. For those not in the know, Premier Williams recently jaunted down to Miami for heart surgery. In his interview with NTV reporter Fred Hutton, he stated, “This [...]
Open Government – New Book from O’Reilly Media
I’m very excited to share I have a chapter in the new O’Reilly Media book Open Government (US Link & CDN Link). I’ve just been told that the book has just come back from the printers and can now be ordered. Also exciting is that a sample of the book (pictured left) that includes the [...]
Today in the Globe: Facebook’s Political Reach
I have the following piece published in the Globe and Mail today. It isn’t going to further endear me to Michael Valpy (who is already not impressed with me)… but felt another perspective on the issue was needed. He, like many traditional columnists, is not a fan of social – or digital – media. Indeed, [...]
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