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Meaningful Use Stage 2 Beta - A Suggestion 26 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
It’s that time of year again when Meaningful Use conversations heat up because all sorts of deadlines are approaching, and as expected, nobody is ready. Meaningful Use was originally intended to have ...
How to Hang Out Your Electronic Shingle 19 Aug 2013 | 09:49 pm
(Source: forgotten-ny.com) When a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant or any other professional graduated from University, or moved to a new town, he or she would most often locate a nice little office, ...
New Medicine – First, Show Me the Money 15 Aug 2013 | 07:07 pm
This is a warning shot across the bow of the mighty health care ship which seems to be changing course in search of calmer waters to carry the riches stowed deep in its rusty hull. I have no arsenal t...
Cost Effectiveness of Health Information Exchange 13 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
At some point it was decided that the exchange of clinical information between facilities of care is lacking in both quantity and quality, and it was further decided that a drastic increase in frequen...
The Contrived March to Scarcity in Health Care 5 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm
A recent survey of physicians, conducted by Tilburt and colleagues and published in JAMA, finds that most doctors support measures to improve the quality of care, but are opposed to financial schemes ...
10 Steps to Prepare your Health App for Monetization 29 Jul 2013 | 07:33 pm
So you released a health app, now what? While waiting for your creation to do its thing and fix health care, there are some steps you can take to increase the odds of its success. Obviously, marketing...
The Holy EHR Wars 22 Jul 2013 | 07:25 pm
"In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:" --Genesis 15:18 Some four thous...
Should the DoD Buy Epic, or Cerner, or GE, or…? 12 Jul 2013 | 07:46 pm
The Department of Defense (DoD) is in the market for an EHR solution… again. After a lengthy foray into building its own EHR from scratch (AHLTA), with miserable results, and another shorter detour th...
Health Care Transformation – It’s not Personal, It’s Business 1 Jul 2013 | 07:30 pm
Why are we transforming health care? Why do we feel compelled to act with such urgency and in such broad reformative strokes? Did we just wake up one morning shook to our very core by the enormity of ...
Move Over Big Data – Boundless Information has Arrived 13 Jun 2013 | 06:30 pm
If a mosquito lands on someone’s head and you hit the mosquito with a shovel, is the death of the guy under the mosquito considered an unintended consequence? Source: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart ...
