2009 Linux Medical News Freedom Award Recipients

[Ignacio Valdes]

It was a difficult choice this year among many worthy people and
projects but the panel of judges has spoken. The recipients of the
2009 Linux Medical News Freedom Award are the open source, US
Government NHIN Connect project and Kevin Toppenberg, MD for his
invaluable work and use of Veterans Affairs VistA in the private
sector.

http://linuxmednews.com/1258577414/index_html

[Nancy Anthracite]

Both wise choices. Congratulations to all!

--
Nancy Anthracite

[JohnLeo Zimmer]

Congratulations,

I am sure that Kevin will be able to put the richly deserved $100,000
prize money to good use caring for the people of TN.

GpZ

[I, Valdes]

The accounting department would only let us award $50,000 this year.*

-- IV

*Tooth fairy, Santa Clause and Spinal Tap apply. Actually this is
where the proceeds for LMN Google ads go to which is considerably more
modest than $50,000 :-) So click those ads if you visit LMN...

On Nov 18, 3:11 pm, JohnLeo Zimmer <johnleo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congratulations,
>
> I am sure that Kevin will be able to put the richly deserved $100,000
> prize money to good use caring for the people of TN.
>
> GpZ
>

[K.S. Bhaskar]

Congratulations, Kevin. It is well deserved.

Regards
-- Bhaskar

GT.M - Rock solid. Lightning fast. Secure. No compromises.

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[Matt King]

Very good choice. Congrats, Kevin.
m

[glilly]

Congratulations, Kevin. You deserve it.

gpl

[kdt...@gmail.com]

Thanks Ignacio, and everyone for the well wishes. I have to say,
though, that the National Health Information Network (NHIN) project
looks cool too.

Kevin

[Nancy Anthracite]

It is pretty cool and our community is actively involved in it with the CCR-
CCD project. If you would like to join the call Tuesday nights, drop me a
line and we will add you to the mailing list. Or join the update call that
Medsphere has where George Lilly talks about progress on the project.

Richard Brahman is a volunteer who has been very busy with the Connect code as
has Andy Pardue from Medsphere. FOIA VistA, RPMS and WorldVistA EHR are used
for testing by the Connect project and OpenVista uses the code from the CCR-
CCD project so can use the National Health Information Network as well.
Volunteers from VistA Outreach also have been involved in the Connect project.

Volunteers from many places have been involved in the CCR-CCD project as well
including the University of Minnesota, IHS, West Virginia RPMS users,
Medsphere and WorldVistA as well as volunteers who have day jobs at the VA and
elsewhere. The code from that is finding uses in other projects such as
ePrescribing.

The Connect project is breaking new ground with government/private sector
cooperation in developing open source software. It is a good thing that they
are being recognized for it.

--
Nancy Anthracite

[Ben Mehling]

A demo of this community's work on the gateway project is here:

https://medsphere.org/blogs/Edmund/2009/09/08/the-collaborative-ccr-ccd-gateway-project

- Ben

[glilly]

The Connect project is very deserving of the open source award. By
sharing the software that can allow EHR systems to participate on the
NHIN, the Connect project enables solutions to be developed that meet
requirements beyond those of the Federal agencies for whom it is being
designed.

For example, we are developing the capability for providers to use
CCDs and CCRs obtained using a Connect gateway to drive auto-
registration of patients. Both the CCD and the CCR contain patient
demographics and payer information which can be used to help register
a new patient and to generate the HIPAA EDI 270 eligibility inquiry
transaction that is a key part of the ARRA 2011 Meaningful Use
requirements. As far as we can tell, this is not a HITSP use case (we
don't know why not, it could represent considerable savings to small
providers and patients and seems to be a significant interoperability
transaction which is tied to Meaningful Use)

We are making good progress in parsing the CCD and extracting the data
elements which it has in common with the CCR so that so that the same
code can be used to drive auto-registration and the importing of
clinical elements into VistA and RPMS. We are looking forward to
continuing to test our solutions with the open source releases of
Connect.

Thank you Connect team and congratulations on this award.

George Lilly

On Nov 19, 12:22 am, Nancy Anthracite <nanthrac...@earthlink.net>
wrote: