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HIStalk Interviews Stephen Brown, Director of Preventive Emergency Medicine, UI Health

HIStalk Interviews

Then I transitioned to University of Illinois in 2011 to start a preventive emergency medicine program. Those are all things that are measurable and that health IT could take an active role in bringing forth. What motivated you to move from a technology and sales career to becoming a social worker?

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Submission to the Senate inquiry on My Health Record

Health Intersections

This would allow for the implementation of the National Digital Health Strategy, and stimulate innovation to improve health, and leverage international standards and programs. I am the Product Director and Community Lead for the FHIR standard , which is published through HL7 , the leading international healthcare standards provider.

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

APIs, Internet of (Healthy) Things, and AR/VR among the others are getting deployed in retail channels and at home to support peoples’ health in the real world, in real time outside of the clinical setting. For health care, the application of FHIR standards helps mobilize data for better health, turbocharging this trend.

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