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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|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|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|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,...
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