A few weeks ago Colin Hansen – a politician in the governing party in British Columbia (BC) – penned an op-ed in the Vancouver Sun entitled Unlocking our data to save lives. It’s a paper both the current government and opposition should read, as it is filled with some very promising ideas. In it, he [...]
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Public Policy: The Big Opportunity For Health Record Data
Next Generation Open Data: Personal Data Access
Background This Monday I had the pleasure of being in Mexico City for the OECD’s High Level Meeting on e-Government. CIO’s from a number of countries were present – including Australia, Canada, the UK and Mexico (among others). But what really got me going was a presentation by Chris Vein, the Deputy United States Chief [...]
Saving Healthcare Billions: Let’s fork the VA’s Electronic Health Records System
Alternative title for this post: How our Government’s fear of Open Source Software is costing us Billions. So, I’ve been meaning to blog this for several months now. Back in November I remember coming across this great, but very short, interview in the Globe and Mail with Ken Kizer. Who, you might ask, is Ken [...]
How Yelp Could Help Save Millions in Health Care Costs
Okay, before I dive in, a few things. 1) Sorry for the lack of posts last week. Life’s been hectic. Between Code for America, a number of projects and a few articles I’m trying to get through, the blogging slipped. Sorry. 2) I’m presenting on Open Data and Open Government to the Canadian Parliament Access [...]
Conservative Senator Talks Harm Reduction
First, for those who have not seen it Maxine Davis, Executive Director of the Dr. Peter Foundation has an important op-ed in the Vancouver Sun titled Attention Ottawa: Insite is a health care service. More intriguing Safe Games 2010 and the Keeping the Door Open Society (which, for full disclosure, I sit on the board [...]
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