Comments on: HIStalk Interviews Joel Diamond, MD, Chief Medical Officer of dbMotion

By: Joel Diamond

Joel Diamond — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:26:35 +0000

To Art–
First of all, let me congratulate you for your fantastic HISTalk
interview. I wanted to respond to your ever inciteful commentary and
question. While we don’t comment on specific competitors in the public
domain, I would like to answer your question in a general sense by
pointing out that the dbMotion product is unique in that it is one of
the only solutions on the market today which addresses the
interoperability problem in an end-to-end manner. Other products can
provide partial solutions, such as a centralized patient view (portal),
messaging, or result delivery. dbMotion, on the other hand, provides a
complete platform that doesn’t stop there– it goes a few steps further
by enabling its customers to maximally leverage their existing IT
infrastructure to address current and future needs. Our SOA
architecture and sole focus on interoperability allows us to address all aspects of
this complicated arena, including security, vocabularies and semantic
knowledge. We often find that alternative solutions involve assembling
together a set of tools which are normally sold and thus often operated
independently. Even then, most companies still need to add components
from external vendors to provide necessary functionality. We also pride
ourselves in the fact that our solution is pragmatic in that it was
built to serve imperfect environments– not just those that have ideal
interfaces and harmonization of technologies.
J
oel Diamond, MD, FAAFP
CMO, dbMotion North America

By: Scott Sanner

Scott Sanner — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:11:51 +0000

Fantastic interview!!! dbMotion and UPMC have a lot to feel good about given Dr. Diamond’s vision. This gentleman is certainly going to continue to make headlines in HIT! Dr. Diamond is clearly one of the most intelligent leaders in our industry. WOW!!!

By: Art_Vandelay

Art_Vandelay — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:00:59 +0000

Great interview! A follow-up question for Dr. Diamond – how is your product really different from 3M’s Clinical Data Repository with the configurable workstation, health dara dictionary, and alert writer? The biggest difference seems to be that your front-end is web-based and that in addition to a patient-centric alert, the product also provides population-centric alerts (bio-surveillance). Their product replicated the data and stored it to a standard data model via the health data dictionary, could send an interface back-out if you would like, and had the alert writer (albeit for more patient centric as opposed to population-centric rules).