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“Give me Auntie’s medical records or put me in the slammer!”

We underestimate how much people REALLY want medical infomation about themselves and their loved ones.  Dorothy Tillman wanted it so badly that she was arrested!  Read more at Jaz-Michael King’s blog, A Scanner Brightly.   Hat tip to Jen McCabe Gorman for spotting this amazing story. No tag for this post.

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Free at Last, Free at Last — “Health 2.0″ is Free at Last!

Bravo, cheers and congratulations to fellow blogger and consultant Matthew Holt.  In a stroke of defiance and brilliance, he has trademarked the term “Health 2.0” and made it available for all to use (presumably except for events that might be confused with his upcoming Health 2.0 conference).  From The Health Care Blog: Yes I’ve trademarked Health2.0. No, [...]

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Motherhood, Empty Nesting, and Disease Management

My wife, Jill, just wrote a beautiful Mother’s Day essay.  Her writing brought a tear to my eye. What does this have to do with disease management?  Nothing, really….well, actually I could use a disease management program targeted at dads who have the condition of having recently become empty nesters. Vince Tags: disease management

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Introducing: the POE Award and the POO Award

Today I’m introducing two new awards: The POE Award — for plain old English The POO Award — for pervasive obfuscatory oration When I work on projects, the room typically has a combination of people who are native speakers of three very different languages: Tags: Medicare

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Does Ron Also Have an EHR?

This story by David Williams made my morning! Tags: EHR

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