I really should be writing a lengthy post about a number of important subjects that have come up recently – meaningful use, closed standards, and so forth. Unfortunately I’ve just recovered from a week of fairly aggressive, although not pig related, respiratory illness and so instead I’m going to post a music video about Health IT interoperability. The payoff is at the end.

It’s somewhat amusing to note that I first met Ross on New Year’s Eve, 1999, which happened to be the day he proposed to his wife. We then completely avoided crossing each other’s paths until 2006, when I was at CMS and he was at Pfizer and representing the industry on the AHIC Consumer Empowerment workgroup. We’ve had the opportunity to do some (non-musical) together since, which has been quite a lot of fun.

But if you read this far, one more thing to think about – HITECH has a few billion dollars in stimulus for HIT adoption. It has vastly more in penalties. The math is not uninteresting, and I’m going to do some of it this weekend.