Budgets and ROI
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2008|06|26
21st Century Medicine Using 20th Century IT
According to a survey, published online by the New England Journal of Medicine on June 18th, 2008, of over 2,700 physicians, just 17% of respondents are using EHRs in their ambulatory care practice. This contrasts with more than 90% of similar physicians in the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand an...2008|05|09
DHC 2008: Pre-Conference Themes and Variations, Business Intelligence and Health Analytics
Business intelligence is used regularly in other industries to management processes and people, but is now just beginning to be used in healthcare. The development of EMRs help collect structured clinical information that can form the basis for analysis, but healthcare is just at the infancy stages ...2008|05|09
DHC 2008: Pre-Conference Themes and Variations, Data Transfer, Access and Security
John Steindorf of CapData and John Barlo of Sun Microsystems raised concerns about security and privacy, suggesting that keeping the information centralized provided a better approach to protect data. If data is accessed through a thin client (e.g., data stored centrally), none of the data is put at...2008|05|07
DHC 2008: Pre-Conference Themes and Variations, Server Virtualization
At the DHC2008 Pre-Conference, Austin Park, CTO, PDS, discussed the key concerns associated with server virtualization. Key points of the discussion were as follows: To understand ROI you need to baseline before you make changes Proper deployment planning and setting expectations are critical to...2008|04|07
Ad Supported EMRs: Bad Idea
While earning my MPH, I took a healthcare economics course with Marc Roberts, a political economist at the Harvard School of Public Health. I distinctly remember learning about the importance of advertising in a market economy. He told us to look at advertising as a means to gather more information ...
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