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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, Data Management and Retention
Jim Prekop, CEO of Teramedica, led a discussion on data retention of clinical information. A key issue to understand from end-users is their wants versus their needs. Any discussion must focus on both technology, and its capabilities, and basic ROI. Rules engines/algorithms help organizations manage...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|04|17
Chasing Online Health Data Technology
In two previous blogs I talked about issues related to online electronic health information. One focused on Google’s and Microsoft’s efforts to build online personal health records, and the other addressed advertising supported electronic medical records. It seems this issue of online he...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 ...2008|04|04
Blame Privacy Breach on Processes Not People
March 24th marked the day of one more privacy breach of someone’s healthcare records. Nothing unusual there except one of the 3,000 electronic patient records on the laptop stolen from the trunk of a car belonged to Congressman Joe Barton (TX), ranking Republican on the Energy and Commerce com...2008|03|24
Is the Defining of HIT Terms by ONC/NAHIT Going to Matter?
The National Alliance for Health Information Technology (Alliance) tasked by the Office of the National Coordinator for HIT is working on the final definitions for 5 HIT terms: Electronic Health Record (EHR), Electronic Medical Record (EMR), Personal Health Record (PHR), Regional Health Information ...2008|03|05
Challenge to Google: Understand that PHR Data is Different
In his HIMSS Annual Conference keynote address last week, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, presented an easily understood and exciting review of his plans for an online Personal Health Record (PHR). For those of us committed to using health IT to improve quality, enhance patient safety and reduce costs,...2008|02|28
Steve Case’s Revolution Health Not the Key Needed Revolution
At the third day of the HIMSS Annual Conference here in Orlando keynote speaker Steve Case of AOL fame, took some time introducing the attendees to the offerings of Revolution Health while espousing the notion that consumerism is the key way to reign in the rising costs of healthcare and improve its...2008|02|21
Google and Cleveland Clinic Partner on PHRs...
When Google speaks people listen. When Google joins forces with the Cleveland Clinic, an internationally recognized leader in medical science and informatics, everyone takes notice. (NYTimes Blog) (NYTimes/AP) It is unclear what will come of this pilot test, but surely it indicates a powerful eff...
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