Healthcare is joining the network economy.
Let’s adapt strategy and business models for
success during the upcoming transformation.
What a difference in attitude! Compare two press announcements from April 5: 1) CCHIT: Interoperability Isn’t Doable With Today’s Technology . Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), Interoperability: Supplying the Building Blocks for a Patient-centered EHR , April 5, 2009 This report…(is) also an attempt to inject a dose of reality into the discussion [...]
What do cats (incumbent EHR vendors and their supporters) have to smile about over HITECH? A lot. …and it’s not very complicated. HITECH directs $17 B to the cat community, and leaves scraps for the dogs. (As a refresher, the cat POV is that HITECH stimulus funds should simply pay directly for electronic health record [...]
by David C. Kibbe MD, MBA What would you call health care software that: Is Web-based and networkable, therefore highly scalable and inexpensive to purchase and use; Provides a ‘unified view’ of a patient from multiple sources of data and information; Is designed to be used interactively – by providers and patients alike – to [...]
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 [...]
Google Health (GH) could be the event of the decade in advancing health care reform — not just healthcare information technology (HIT) reform, but health care system reform. GH promises simultaneously to create AND dominate the market for next generation personal health records (PHRs). There is nothing else in our solar system or in the [...]
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