Health Intersections is 1 year old

Dec 21, 2011

I’m back after a few days down following a hosting problem.The original host took my site down since it was occupying too much CPU time. I don’t know what the cause of that is, but we’ve taken the opportunity to migrate to a better host. I’ll be bringing the old site back piece by piece so that hopefully we can pin point the problem if there is one. While we were down, the one year anniversary of the establishment of Health Intersections passed by. I’ve been much busier than I expected - actually, much busier than I wanted to be. The government’s putting the pressure on with the PCEHR implementation here, and that’s keeping me real busy. Still, I’ve been glad to work with all sorts of clients, and to keep my association with Kestral (previous employer) alive. As well as continuing to be tethered to reality through maintaining HL7Connect - a dinky little interface engine that does HL7 v2, CDA and (soon) DICOM. It’s not loaded with features, but it’s simple to use, and it’s price point is unmatched.

Perhaps the most significant thing I’ve done this year is drafting what I called “Resources for Health”, which HL7 has adopted with real interest as a way forward for HL7 standards. HL7 has proposed that it be renamed to Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, and so I’ve renamed my draft - which has had a little bit of work since the last meeting, though not as much as we hoped.

Finally, a couple of months ago, MSIA awarded me