Idle Hacking

It was a pretty quiet release, but after many months we’ve release 1.2. It runs on top of XULRunner, the Firefox based runtime environment. We choose to use the XULRunner 1.8 tree instead of the 1.8.0 tree, so that we could make use of some of the new features like nsISAXMLReader.

New features in the product include it’s ability to manage multiple insurance plans per record. Meaning we support splitting a doctors bill between multiple insurance comapies - something our competitors don’t handle. Also, we reduced the footprint to only 6.9 megs from 8.04 megs. The download is free with registration.

Software Health, Javascript, XPCOM, XULRunner

The conference went really well, A lot of companies both targeting CCR to providers and CCR to patients are making standards support for firefox a priority. I also learned there is a great deal of opensource work being done by openhre.org/. Of course, SimoHealth was welcomed warming as both a novel approach to the PHR/EHR problem and recieved a number of *oohs* and *ahhs* when people realized how it was developed (shamless plug i know). I didn’t present, but when I had a chance, showed it to a few people and got some really great insight. Lots of fun, I hope to blog more about it soon!

Life at work, Software CCR, Health, XUL