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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|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|05|07
DHC 2008: Pre-Conference Themes and Variations, Phishing and Website Security Breach
This year’s Digital Healthcare Conference held at the Fluno Center in Madison, WI focuses on issues top-of-mind of provider organization senior executives. This is my 6th year as chairperson of the conference. Prior to the conference, interactive sessions led by vendor representatives explo...2008|05|01
Genetic Testing: An Example of Personalized Medicine and Its Burden
Personalized medicine promises to offer patients unique diagnostic and treatment services focused on the individual. For several years the BRCA test has been used by physicians treating women with a past medical history or family history of breast cancer. The test has proved useful due to the high i...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|19
Are Defibrillators Vulnerable to Hacks Dangerous?
On March 12th the Wall Street Journal reported on the vulnerability of Medtronic implantable defibrillators to hacking by rogue programmers. In a bench test conducted by clinicians and IT specialists, the defibrillator security firewall was breached and the programming information was changed. ...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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