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Joshua Painter (Intel)

Joshua is a solutions architect with Intel's Software and Services Group (SSG). He recently joined the SOA Products Group after a three year stint with Intel's Digital Health Group, where he was part of the team that developed the Intel Health Guide personal health system, Intel's first FDA-cleared in-home medical device. During his 8 years with Intel, he has been fortunate enough to be involved in finding solutions for pain points in the areas Enterprise IT, Government, Education and Healthcare markets. His current focus is to help enable the success of Intel's flagship SOA interoperability platform: SOA Expressway. When not working, he enjoys spending time with his family, playing golf and exploring the architecture of the great city of Chicago.

Intel announces Intel® SOA Expressway R2.3 and partnership with Sophos for Highly Regulated, Secure SOA

By Joshua Painter (Intel) (12 posts) on October 21, 2009 at 6:35 am
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Today, the Intel® SOA Expressway product team has announced some of the great strides it has made with the latest release. Security Policy Designer: The Intel® SOA Expressway gateway now allows relevant teams from architecture, security & operations to design & enforce policy templates that conform to Enterprise requirements Policy Dashboard: The updated policy dashboard offers a [...]

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New Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare Release Powers Patient/Provider Community Exchange at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center

By Joshua Painter (Intel) (12 posts) on October 14, 2009 at 5:30 am
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It’s been about a year and half since we first released Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare, which is a purpose-built, easy-to-deploy integration appliance for connecting islands of information together to enable a secure, high-performance, best-of-breed health information infrastructure. We have now begun shipping release 2.2, which contains a number of new feature enhancements. Healthcare Quick Start [...]

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Can infrastructure enable healthcare interoperability?

By Joshua Painter (Intel) (12 posts) on June 1, 2009 at 1:30 pm
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Last April at HIMSS in Chicago, Intel participated in the IHE showcase , which is essentially a huge "plug fest" for healthcare vendors promoting interoperability in healthcare. Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is an initiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information. The IHE process delivers [...]

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Enabling hospitals and their affiliated physicians to stay connected

By Joshua Painter (Intel) (12 posts) on January 22, 2009 at 1:18 pm
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Hospitals and IDNs are increasingly looking for new ways to stay connected with their affiliated physicians to enable sharing of health information, streamline the referrals process, and provide seamless access to hospital, lab, PBMs and payer networks. Both hospitals and their affiliated physicians really get excited about the idea of having a consolidated view of [...]

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Design approaches for patient identification in health networks

By Joshua Painter (Intel) (12 posts) on November 12, 2008 at 10:27 pm
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My last few posts have looked at the role of data standardization and terminology translation in enabling healthcare organizations to exchange information that can be understand by all. Terminology translation acts as a bridge to make it possible for two organizations to share and understand health data that is "codified" differently. The linking of patients to [...]

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Healthcare applications that depend on data standardization

By Joshua Painter (Intel) (12 posts) on October 27, 2008 at 9:08 pm
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In my last few posts I touched on the value of health data interoperability and specifically on how medical terminology translation is a key enabler for data standardization and semantic normalization. In fact, this is a substantial growth area for healthcare, thus it is worth highlighting some of the emerging use cases and applications. But [...]

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Designing for gray scale: under the hood of medical terminology translation

By Joshua Painter (Intel) (12 posts) on October 2, 2008 at 1:59 pm
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My last couple posts have touched on the importance of data standards in enabling interoperability in healthcare. It is important to recognize, however, that data standardization is not about dictating the way organizations capture and share clinical data. Often there is specific local and institutional knowledge that is represented in the information of a given [...]

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Semantic normalization: making sense out of health data

By Joshua Painter (Intel) (12 posts) on September 23, 2008 at 2:21 pm
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In my last post I looked under the hood at data interoperability, examining the need for the normalization of both "syntactic" and "semantic" aspects of healthcare data. In this post I will present a high-level architecture for data normalization to share some understanding of how health information exchange is implemented in practice. But first I'd [...]

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Peeling back the onion of health data interoperability

By Joshua Painter (Intel) (12 posts) on September 15, 2008 at 8:36 am
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Data interoperability is vital to today’s healthcare computing environment, allowing clinical information to be effectively and consistently exchanged, compared, and analyzed among healthcare partners such as insurers, pharmacies, affiliated providers, and public health departments. Put simply, data interoperability enables better decision making. The solution is clear: data standardization. But statistics show that the development and [...]

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A Vision for Scalable High Quality Health Information Exchange - Part 3

By Joshua Painter (Intel) (12 posts) on September 4, 2008 at 6:59 am
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This is the third of a three-part article looking at the area of interoperability and health information exchange (HIE) in the healthcare industry. In the first part, I intended to clearly articulate the key challenges and barriers to adoption faced by those looking to engage in HIE. Part 2 examined an architectural approach to address [...]

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A Vision for Scalable High Quality Health Information Exchange - Part 2

By Joshua Painter (Intel) (12 posts) on August 29, 2008 at 2:41 pm
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This is the second of a three-part article looking at the area of interoperability and health information exchange (HIE) in the healthcare industry. In the first part, I intended to clearly articulate the key challenges and barriers to adoption faced by those looking to engage in HIE. Part 2 will examine an architectural approach to [...]

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A Vision for Scalable High Quality Health Information Exchange

By Joshua Painter (Intel) (12 posts) on August 29, 2008 at 7:28 am
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This is the first of a three-part article looking at the area of interoperability and health information exchange (HIE) in the healthcare industry. In the first part, I intend to clearly articulate the key challenges and barriers to adoption faced by those looking to engage in HIE. Part 2 will examine an architectural approach to [...]

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