Work focus

My primary focus is on healthcare information technology. Among other activities, I provide consulting to physicians' practices regarding the selection, acquisition and implementation of electronic medical records (EMR) systems.

I have spent a good amount of time recently developing so-called web services for linking disparate information systems used by different healthcare entities, e.g. a primary care physician office which needs to exchange clinical data with a specialist office or with a hospital each of which has a different computer system for handling clinical data.

Currently I also do software development such as the project listed below as well as work on software development projects unrelated to healthcare.

Bid on medical imaging time

This a website/service that I am currently working on that will permit patients to bid on otherwise idle medical imaging equipment, for example to have an MRI scan. Simple concept. See the link above to access the website. This is under development, but there is some basic information at that webpage.

Software development/technical

I provide more technically-oriented services. These include

• the set-up and operating of local area networks (LANs) for physician's practices and other businesses
• installation and configuration of software PBX systems (based on Asterisk) that offer outstanding features for managing telecommunications inexpensively in any size of organization
• software development (i.e. programming of various types) services primarily aimed at interoperability of systems.
• The last involves creating interfaces to laboratory or other outside entities that utilize HL7-based interfaces or the use of techniques called web services.
• Programming in Java or PHP on the server-side, along with many Java-related techniques and technologies
• Javascript, HTML, CSS and related technology for the client-side

Business consulting in general

In addition I offer more general types of business-related services: business planning and analyis (see an example of a business plan for a physicians' practice downloadable in text format here to offer its EMR/PM system to small, surrounding practices on an application service provider (ASP) basis), financial analysis, strategic advice, operational improvement services and tax advice.

Fees

I generally charge $100/hour for my work, but am flexible in regard to that. I also price on a project basis that shifts as many functions as possible to lower-cost collaborators, so the cost to a client can be considerably below $100/hour.

EMR/PM software to try

The website is a constantly-evolving. There is a variety of behind-the-scenes functions available on the server that delivers this website that illustrate web services, provide access to a sample implementation of the OpenEMR EMR system, a sample implementation of the Veterans Affairs Department's amended VistA (known as VistA Office EHR or VOE) comprehensive EMR system and a test version of an excellent, inexpensive commercial EMR system called AmazingCharts.

Other information in this website

There is also a lot of other information related to my services, to EMR systems and to the medical services system in general available by clicking the appropriate hyperlinks above.

Public key for encryption

This is my public key to use for encrypted messages or any other data sent to me. Here

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