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Information & Communication Technologies (ICT)
HIMSS Commentary: Is HITECH Promoting Innovation?
There’s a great discussion going on on The Healthcare IT Guy’s blog:  Innovation in healthcare IT is dead (hopefully only temporarily). Read BOTH the essay by Shahid Shah and the comments.
Chilmark Needs to Chill Out on CCR/CCD Findings
John Moore of Chilmark Research and I agree on things 90+ percent of the time. He even thanked me personally for our collegial relationship in a Thanksgiving Day essay on his blog.
However…I can’t help but comment on John’s misleading story “CCD Standard Gaining Traction, CCR Fading” in The Health Care Blog. He writes:
In a number of interviews with leading HIE [Health Information Exchange] vendors, it is becoming clear that the clinical standard, Continuity of Care Document (CCD) will be the dominant standard in […]
Appliance or Application? The Choice Finally is Coming to Health Care.
My wife Jill loves her iPhone…she raves about it. Last night she showed me an application she had recently acquired for her iPhone. She was able to explain and demonstrate the app and its functionality to me (yes, to ME!) in about 30 seconds.Â
I’d describe the app as Garmin-like but running on the iPhone. You type in the address at which you’re going to start your drive and then you type in the address of the location where you want to drive […]
A Compendium of Resources on the Federal HIT Meaningful Use NPRM and Standards IFR
* = highly recommended
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Descriptive Summaries and Documents
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 *Dissecting the Meaningful Use Proposed Rule PowerPoint
eHealth Initiative Policy Webinar; January 8, 2010
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*What You Need to Know About the Meaningful Use Proposed Rule, Standards and Implementation Specification, and Interim Final Rule Certification Criteria PowerPoint
John Halamka’s Stunning 180: “Dogs and Cats Should Live in Harmony”
The King of the Cats has just acknowledged that indeed cats and dogs should co-exist peacefully.
Dr. John Halamka — Vice Chair of the HIT Standards Committee of the ONC and one of the most vocal and influential figures in health IT — writes a blog post this morning entitled “The Genius of AND”. Halamka reasonably summarizes the essence of the debate about standards and interoperability as being between “the healthcare informatics crowd” (cats) and the “Internet crowd” (dogs):
He notes that the debate […]
Senator Grassley: You’re on Track About EMR Problems, But Here Are Some More Questions to Ask
An article in today’s Washington Post links to a letter written by Senator Charles E. Grassley.
The letter is directed at 10 EMR (electronic medical record) vendors, and asks very pointed questions about whether the vendors have been negligent in not addressing patient safety issues in their technologies.
Senator Grassley, you have the scent and you’re on the trail. There are several other questions you should be asking these vendors:
Complimentary Webinar: Introduction to Clinical Groupware and the Clinical Groupware Collaborative
BrightTALK is sponsoring a complimentary Electronic Health Record Summit this Tuesday, October 20, 2009.
David C. Kibbe MD, MBA and I will be presenting “Introduction to Clinical Groupware and the Clinical Groupware Collaborative”
Clinical groupware is a new and evolving model for the development and deployment of health information technology (HIT) platforms and applications having the following characteristics:
Use of the Internet and the web for EHR technology.
Explicit design for information sharing and online communication among providers and patients/consumers.
A modular […]
We’re Building a REALLY BIG Health Internet!
How big a network will the Health Internet (aka National Health Information Network) be?
My BOTE (back-of-the-envelope) calculation is that this network could consist of about 301 million nodes. Here’s my math (pls. clarify or amplify):
300 million individuals in U.S.
700 K doctors
5 K hospitals
295 K — other B2B healthcare entities
Very rough…but I hope you get the point.
So let’s put into perspective press releases from Google or Microsoft announcing that they have developed new “partnerships” (i.e.nodes in the network) for Google Health or Microsoft HealthVault. As an example, […]
HITECH Health IT Legislation: Opportunities for the DMAA Community
Dr. Don Storey and I spoke at the at The Forum 09 conference in San Diego earlier this week. The DMAA publication “The Continuum” had an excellent writeup of our enthusiastically received presentation.Â
Here’s a copy of our PowerPoint slides…
HITECH Health IT Legislation: Opportunities for the DMAA Community
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and here’s DMAA’s writeup:
Helping physicians and hospitals meet the “meaningful use” criteria for federal support for health information technology under recently passed legislation represents a keen opportunity for the population health management industry, presenters at […]
Meeting Announcement: “Introduction to the Clinical Groupware Collaborative”
by Steve Adams, CEO, RMD Networks and Acting President, Clinical Groupware Collaborative Â
I’m writing to extend a warm personal invitation to learn more about the Clinical Groupware Collaborative (CGC). To-date, purely through word-of-mouth over 40 companies have expressed interest in the CGC, and we expect that you’ll be hearing a lot more about us over the coming months.
Our meeting will take place next Tuesday, September 22, 6 PM in conjunction with The Forum 09, the annual meeting of DMAA: […]