Articles And Mentions
June 2, 2015
Videntity president, Alan Viars, presents on how MongoDB was used in the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) at MongoDB World 2015 in New York, NY. Check out the video.
May 30, 2015
Alan Viars completes his fellowship at CMS, and returns to Videntity. Welcome back Alan!
Alan Viars begins his HHS External Entrepreneur fellowship at CMS focused on modernizing the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES). Read more about the project here.
October 24, 2013
Videntity president, Alan Viars, presents strategies for using MongoDB with Django at the Triangle Python Users Group. You can download the slides here.
September 1, 2012
Videntity begins providing support to NIST in support of Meaningful Use Stage 2 health information technology (IT) testing. For more information see testing. For more information see https://github.com/meaningfuluse/mu2.
January 5, 2012
Videntity launches tweatwell.com for West Virginia University. Tweatwell is a self-tracking game developed in conjunction with WELLWVU that encourages students to consume more fresh fruits and vegetables.
Andy Oram’s Blog (O’Reilly Media).
September 26, 2011
Novartis awards team Videntity, comprised of Alan Viars and Mark Scrimshire, $1000 award for innovation durring a weekend code-a-thon sponsored by Health 2.0. The solution was built to facilitate drug survellence after the product was released.
Andy Oram’s Blog (O’Reilly Media).
June 11, 2011
Videntity participates in Health 2.0’s Code-a-Thon at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health in Washington D.C. Check out the coverage on
Andy Oram’s Blog (O’Reilly Media).
April 28, 2011
Videntity participates in Health Care Innovation Day -A Discussion with the FDA in Washington D.C. This event wassponsored by the West Wireless Health Institute.
April 15, 2011
Videntity begins providing software and consulting services to support the Community Education Group in Washington D.C.
January 11, 2011
Videntity launches Physique 7 for West Virginia University. Check out the video on YouTube.
January 5, 2011
Videntity begins providing software and consulting services to support the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
October 7, 2010
Videntity wins the West Wireless $10K Developer Challenge for innovative health care technology. Using RESTCat, OMHE, and FaceBook, Videntity’s solution is a platform to encourage healthy behavior change through mobile applications and social networks.
August 15, 2010
Videntity begins providing GlideTV with consulting services and technical assistance in an AWS Elastic Computing Cloud deployment. GlideTV has developed a tool to aggregate online video content. Find out more at http://glidetv.com/
July 15, 2010
Videntity begins providing Clinovations with consulting services and technical assistance in support of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and the Washington DC Regional Extension Center.
May 1, 2010
Videntity provides Django consulting expertise to GeniusRocket. GeniusRocket is a crowd-sourcing service specializing in on-line video.
March 31, 2010
Videntity president, Alan Viars, presents on why object-based storage is ideal for health and wellness information at the Silicon Valley Quantified-Self Meetup on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA.
March 23, 2010
Videntity makes the corporate decision to make most of our product line open source.
January 26, 2010
Videntity president, Alan Viars presents on OMHE Microsyntax at Health 2.0 STAT in Washington D.C. Check out the video on YouTube.
January 15, 2010
Videntity announces that CEO, Alan Viars will present at Health 2.0 STAT in Washington D.C. on January 26. Viars will be speaking on Open Mobile Health Exchange (OMHE Microsyntax). OMHE is an open source project for effective micro health communication. For more information, visit meetup.com Unfortunately seats have been taken, but you can join the waiting list for a chance to attend.
January 14, 2010
Videntity president, Alan Viars, participates in Haiti CrisisCamp. Viars will donate time and technical expertise to helping with relief efforts in Haiti.Haiti CrisisCamp Washington D.C. January 16, 2010
January 13, 2010
Videntity president, Alan Viars, quoted in cnn.com article on patient empowerment.Patients demand: ‘Give us our damned data’
January 4, 2010
Videntity CEO, Alan Viars, speaking on access to medical information published at e-patients.net announces founder and CEO’s attendance at My Father�s Medical Record Fiasco
October 11, 2009
Videntity announces founder and CEO’s attendance at TEDx Mid Atlantic Follow Alan on Twitter: @aviars. Twitter hash tag: #TEDxMidAtlantic
October 6-7, 2009
Videntity participates in Health 2.0 in San Francisco, California. Twitter hash tag: #health2con
October 5, 2009
Videntity participates in HealthCamp San Francisco Bay at the Kaiser Permanente Garfield Innovation Center in Oakland California. Twitter hash tag: #hcsfbay
September 30, 2009
Videntity announces a working relationship with microsyntax.org to further develop and validate the Open Mobile Health Exchange (OMHE) . OMHE, is an open source microsyntax format for health information exchange designed for medical devices, mobile devices, and humans. Twitter hash tag: #omhe
September 22, 2009
Videntity Systems, Inc. host the Morgantown Digital Identity Meetup Group Goes to Tampa event at Spain Restaurant in Tampa Florida. Join the group here: http://meetup.com/biometrics
September 22-24, 2009
Videntity Systems, Inc. participates in the 2009 Biometric Consortium Conference in Tampa, Florida. Twitter hash tag: #biocc
July 1, 2009
Videntity Systems, Inc. signs an agreement with BRTRC to provide identity subject matter expertise to the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS).
June 19, 2009
Videntity participates in HealthCamp Maryland at Stevenson University near Baltimore, Maryland. Twitter hash tag: #hcmd09
Latest Press Releases
October 7, 2010
Videntity Wins Health IT Developer Challenge
The West Wireless Health Institute (WWHI) today awarded its $10,000 developer challenge to Alan Viars, of Videntity, at the Health 2.0 Conference. Viars’ winning submission integrates consumer devices and open source platforms to enable people to share real-time health data securely over their social networks as they work towards achieving health and fitness goals.