Bill Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland recently contributed a piece to Silicon Florist, regarding Health Information Technology and why it is important to Portland. I would like to take a minute to comment on it.
I agree with Bill, Portland could become a “hub for health IT at the intersection of industry, academia, and its health care systems”. As a small company active in Health IT since 2007, we have found Portland to be an excellent location to collaborate with academia. In August 2008 we launched TriSano ™, an open source public health community. The TriSano™ Community consists of Collaborative Software Initiative developers and subject matter experts (doctors, nurses, epidemiologists and informatics). Many of the SMEs in the TriSano™ Community are from Portland academia and industry. Although the outcome of this collaboration, CSI TriSano™ has been deployed across the state of UT and all of its counties to Bill’s point most of the funds to develop CSI TriSano™ came from outside the state.
Collaborative Software Initiative is committed to continuing to identify opportunities for collaboration in and outside the state of OR. As always, I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
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