Do you remember
the worries about getting different health care software systems to work with each other as health care providers starting moving away from paper? It's still a problem, but Joanne Rohde's company,
Axial Exchange, is working to cure that problem not only as an entrepreneur but also because she has personal reasons to see health care providers communicate better with each other. In a
2012 interview for Huffington Post, she said, "While I was working for Red Hat, I got very sick... I ultimately had to go to 10 doctors to be diagnosed. Going from doctor to doctor, I could not believe I had to start over each time. No one actually talks to each other I became convinced that if I had had all the information, I probably would have been able to figure it out faster." In fact, Joanne got so sick that she quit her job as Red Hat COO after four years with the company. Once she started getting decent treatment for her
Fybromyalgia and started getting better, she decided to apply open source principles to health care IT -- and to start a new company to do it. Opensource.com
talked with Joanne in September 2013, and in January 2014 she talked with Health Care Finance News for an article titled
Patients key to reducing readmissions. A phrase Joanne seems to be using a lot lately is "patient engagement," which has become a major part of Axial Exchange's work to improve communications not only between different health care providers but also between those providers and their patients.
Update: 02/05 20:16 GMT by
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The new Slashdot sucks
By girlintraining
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2014-Feb-5 14:08
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Upmod if you agree: Beta is shit. Keep it the way it is.
agree
By evilRhino
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2014-Feb-5 14:14
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It is definitely worse. The screen real estate is not used very well.
No
By Billly Gates
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2014-Feb-5 14:19
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But a very expensive and difficult to administer system made in India with no UX considerations requiring obsolete browsers and ultra expensive RDBMS licenses that small doctors offices can't afford is the way to go forward.
Digg Version 4 = Slashdot Beta
By ScottCooperDotNet
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2014-Feb-5 14:51
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Force the beta on me? I'll move along. It's garbage and there's no reason for garbage to be in my browser.
So we'll no longer get to read your comments about MyCleanPC and GNAA?
The new site is a work in progress so Classic Slashdot will be available from the footer for several more months.
If I'm reading that right, that means we're all going to be forced into the awful new version whether we like it or not. Apparently Dice hasn't learned from the spectacular fall from grace that Digg had when they badly botched version 4 of their site, even when many users complained. The parallels here are clear, we the readers have been clear we don't like what we see. That Dice is willing to say "tough luck" anyway gives the best hint why Monster.com is the dominant job board and Dice is just a niche player. Users opinions matter, especially on a user-driven site.
Anyway, I wish Technocrat.net would come back.
fibromyalgia
By mrchew1982
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2014-Feb-5 15:13
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is doctors speak for, "We don't know what the hell is wrong with you but you won't leave us alone, so heres a vague diagnosis to get rid of you"