Wow, what a nutty three days at HIMSS. As I said to Martha on the plane home, "enough social interaction to last me the rest of the year." But net-net it was totally worth it ... some great (and inspiring) conversations with customers, productive interactions...

More great news --- Dr. Halamka and his incredible engineers went from zero-to-Direct in about a day of actual work ... and just fourteen days from the first conversation about the possibility of hooking up BIDMC to HealthVault using Direct S/MIME...

Believe it or not, there's more to my life than the Direct Project ! Later this week I'll be hopping a plane to Florida to attend the 2011 HIMSS conference . I'm not much of a show-type person, but they had me cold at "minutes from Disney World...

Last week I had a great time participating in an HHS press event launching the Direct Project . At the event we announced that every HealthVault record would automatically be given a Direct address . This is really cool --- anybody in the country...