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Archive for June, 2008

AHIP “Adopts” Medical Home Principles: Huh?

On the surface, you might think that a press release issued by America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) adopting principles for a patient centered medical home (PCMH) would advance the cause. But, look further… The principles endorsed by AHIP only vaguely resemble the Joint Principles of the PCMH endorsed by 4 major primary care physician groups [...]

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Dr. Sidorov Serves Up the Latest Cornucopia of Health Wonk Blogging Cuisine

Dr. Jaan Sidorov serves up a cornucopia of blogging delicacies in the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review at Disease Management Care Blog. Sample the fare! Tags: disease management

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Goldilocks: “Markle’s Framework for Networked Personal Health Information is Just Right”

By Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Goldilocks. Like most Americans, Goldilocks had concerns about achieving just the right amount of data liquidity for her personal health information (PHI). Until today Goldilocks felt between a rock and a hard place: "I want my [...]

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How to “Google Health”

The Ultimate Guide to Google Health: 60+ Tips and Resources — it’s by Jessica Merritt at NursingDegree.Net blog. Really useful and practical! …and it blows away other world famous “how to” guides…                                     Tags: Google Health

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Untangling the Electronic Health Data Exchange

by David C. Kibbe MD, MBA The purpose of this post is to help a non-technical audience untangle some of the confusion regarding health data exchange standards, and particularly come to a better understanding of the similarities and  differences between the Continuity of Care Record (CCR) standard and the CDA Continuity of Care Document (CCD). [...]

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Washington Edition of the Health Wonk Review…

….is posted at the Health Affairs blog. Jane Hiebert-White does a great job with a focus on current public policy issues.  (Apologies to any chimps offended by the comparison). Tags: HIE

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Grands Rounds is up at Happy Hospitalist blog

Grand Rounds — a weekly medical blog carnival — is now posted at the Happy Hospitalist.  Dr. Happy brings home the bacon! Tags: hospital

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Cerner Disses Google Health. Surprised?

Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA We’re not. From the Kansas City Business Journal : Google Inc. has approached Cerner Corp. about a partnership, but Cerner officials don’t sound eager to entangle themselves with the Web-search Goliath. That’s because the proposed partnership relates to Google Health, the personal health record site launched earlier [...]

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