by Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA and David C. Kibbe MD, MBA
The last article in this series — Time for EHRs to Become Plug-and-Play — used words to describe a major industry shift underway in health IT.
Sometimes pictures help to make a point. Here are several diagrams that you can also download as PowerPoint slides.
Computer Industry 1983 to [...]
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by Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe MD, MBA
Have you ever heard anyone tell a happy story of how easy it is to get a copy of their paper medical records?
Departing Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt is laying the groundwork for this same story to apply to access to YOUR electronic personal health [...]
“What’s a yabut?” you ask.
Yabut is a term coined by my esteemed colleague, the late Paul Fetrow. It stands for “Yeah….but….”
Yabuts are the gotchas, the fine print, the details that affect the terms of any agreement. For example, the telecom companies will tell you its easy to switch carriers now that we have number portability. [...]
Will the Microsoft HealthVault, Google Health, and Dossia personal health information (PHI) platforms be able to exchange data? In our introductory essay announcing the Birth of the Personal Health Information Network (PHIN), Dr. David Kibbe and I posed a critical question:
What will the PHIN look like? Will there be multiple, non-interoperable, competing networks or just one interoperable [...]
The federal government sponsored Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT ) is undertaking a certification process for personal health records (PHRs) . The CCHIT PHR Work Group has invited public comment on the First Draft of the PHR Certification Criteria .
The current draft of the PHR Certification Criteria specifies use of the HL7 Continuity [...]
From the August 6 edition of HISTalk — Healthcare IT News and Opinion:
"Re: UHG. Was at the Healthcare Quality Conference yesterday in Boston. Got to talking to a United Health exec who informed me that they have signed an agreement with Google Health and have a pending agreement with HealthVault. This backs up UHG’s previous [...]
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