Ryan Norris
Ryan Norris is the Director of Technology at Medullan. He has a background working with physicians and clients in the eHealth space in developing and delivering solutions that better interconnect providers and create more informed patients through extensible service architectures and highly-usable interfaces.OpenGraph’s Potential for Socializing Health and Wellness
Facebook’s Timeline is coming. If you haven’t seen it, the Timeline is essentially a chronological view of everything you’ve ever shared with Facebook – all the way back to when you were born (something that will need to be artificial for those of us at a more advanced age). The user experience and the very [...]
Wellness Through Connectivity
The holy grail of wellness continues to be sought through social connectivity.
It’s no secret that a critical success factor in wellness programs of any substance from weight loss to smoking cessation to fitness has been in the power of groups. Group aerobics programs, community outreach, and weekly Weight Watchers meetings not only offer economies [...]
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Medullan is looking for people who are eager to become technology leaders to join our team. Read on for more.
Tip-toes in the mobile application minefield
The mobile technology landscape is a varied and technologically heterogeneous. As far as device capabilities have come in the last 5 years, handsets still host various run-time environments that present fragmented options for innovators. While iPhone has been the clear market leader in smartphone applications in the past 2 years, there are a myriad of [...]
Thoughts From the NEHI Employee Health Promotion Conference
Sitting at the NEHI conference today, a couple of quick thoughts:
First, Dr. Ron Goetzel notes that one of the largest sources of the escalating cost of health care is innovation itself – new prescription drugs and new technology. This backwards incentive is fueled by a complete lack of top down pressure for cost reduction. [...]
Massachusetts advocates for consumer data protection – but does regulation stifle innovation?
The state of Massachusetts recently passed a law that got a bunch of attention. 201 CMR 17.00 targets “Standards for the Protection of Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth.” While other states have passed similar legislation – Massachusetts has raised the bureaucratic bar by establishing future guidelines for how businesses will have to prove [...]
Using Privacy as Currency: Bringing the PHR to Market
Non-functional requirements add overhead to projects. Right or wrong, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick recognized this and is contemplating bypassing reviews for Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance for stimulus funded initiatives. Just as accessibility acts as an impediment to construction projects, privacy delays healthcare IT projects by introducing numerous complexities. Is it time to ignore the rules in order to bring innovation to market?
Advancing to healthcare 2.0 with web 3.0
Web 2.0 was all about user generated content making the web a self-sustainable source of information. Web 3.0 is about organizing this information so that it can be aggregated, analyzed, and used to make and influence decisions. But this won’t be done by idle hands pouring over the organization of content page by page – it will be about building domain ontologies and applying semantics to bring order from the chaos.
Wal-Mart, eClinicalWorks Change the Game
With all the talk of government stimulus and the Obama Administration’s mandates around healthcare, it’s the private sector making the big splash in HIT today with Wal-Mart partnering with Dell and eClinicalWorks to deploy low-cost EHR solutions to physicians.
Fighting the Incentive War in Health Care IT Adoption
Software services in health care are challenged by an incentive model which lacks any ability to encourage participation by physicians, leaving Software as a Service vendors in HIT without a willing and necessary participant in the market. The solution might be for HIT firms to employ physicians themselves.
