Dr Farazad Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health IT, US Department of Health and Human Services gave us an update on the state of play of eHealth in the US. Like the rides in Disney, which stipulate you must be "this tall" to play, he proudly announced that after 4 years of implementation of the HITECH act, the US had grown a bit and was now ready to play.

Dr Montashari…

I attended the EU-US Health IT Cooperative Assembly event during eHealth week 2013 in Dublin. There were some excellent presentations from Alex White from the Department of Health, Ireland, Karel de Gucht, EU Trade Commissioner, Dr Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health IT, US Department of Health, Peter Zilgalvis, Head of Unit, Health and Well-being, DG CNET, Enda Kenny, Taoiseach, Therese Murray, President of Massachhusetts Senate, Chandra Brown, Deputy Assistant Secretary, US…

eHealth Week will be held in Dublin from MAy 13-15 this year. It looks like a very exciting program, especially the mobile health symposium which is being hosted by HIMSS Europe. 

 “eHealth solutions are critical in the delivery of a world class health system and offer significant opportunities for stimulating economic growth” said Dr James Reilly TD, Minister for Health in Ireland."

The papers presented at the Health Informatics Society of Ireland Conference last November are now available here

Chase Resourcing are recruiting for a client in Munster. Their client is well on its way to becoming an international entity with plans to expand their services to mainland Europe. This is a superb opportunity to join a…

Shimmer have advertised for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to work on product development for their wearable sensor devices. See the links for more information.  

The Institute of Technology in Tralee is offering a very generous scholarship for an M.Sc by research which includes the following:

I couldn't make the Health Informatics conference in November due to lecturing commitments but I had a look through the powerpoint slides for the conference presentations which can be accessed online here. There is a lot of very exciting Health Informatics research taking place in Ireland at the moment, despite the recession and the difficulties getting funding. Take a look for yourself …

Dundalk IT has announced 20 FREE places on the higher diploma in Science in Computing (Healthcare Software stream). This course is part of the Irish Government's ICT Skills scheme. It offers a one year conversion program for graduates of non-computing disciplines and focuses on specialist modules in…

The Irish Government steering group on research prioritisation has recommended 14 areas for a total funding of 500 million euro. One of the priority groups mentioned is "Connected Health and Independent Living". The following quote is taken from the document;

"This priority area is focused on technologies that facilitate remote delivery of…

There are a growing number of healthcare related companies in Ireland looking for IT staff. Here are a few links if you are interested. I will post any further links I am made aware of on this blog

WhatClinic uses a search engine to gather health related information that  make it easier for a patient to choose a clinic. They are looking for…

I thought it would be fun to summarise what I have been blogging about these last few months. Wordle can fast track through a blog and find the most common words. You can click the image below to get a larger view. However it doesn't pick up phrases like "Health Informatics" or "Electronic Healthcare Record"!

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Archetypes Symposium Part 2: Demonstrators

In the second part of the symposium evidence was presented of EN13606 in use. National demonstrators and successful implementations of standards and EHR solutions are necessary to convince all the stakeholders of the necessity and benefits of EHR…

Archetypes are the business objects of healthcare. They are central to the standardization of health care concepts and are formalised in the European standard CEN/ISO EN13606 , commonly known as EHRcom. Damon Berry of Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) (the TeaPOT research group) organised a…

The DevDays event in Belfast and Dublin on May 25 and 27 looks interesting. It is a one-day conference on Smart phone Apps development for mHealth. The conference link is at http://devdays.info/agenda.php. Topics include developing your first App, UI in Connected Health and marketing your App.…