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 . These [...]
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Archive for June, 2008
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
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 PHI [...]
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
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). But [...]
….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
Grand Rounds — a weekly medical blog carnival — is now posted at the Happy Hospitalist. Dr. Happy brings home the bacon!
Tags: hospital
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 in [...]


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