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Information & Communication Technologies (ICT)
PowerPoint Presentation — EHR 2.0
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Click on the graphic to download a copy of today’s BrightTALK webcast.
“EHR 2.0″ Complimentary Webcast Presentation — BrightTALK e-Health Summit
BrightTALK is sponsoring a complimentary series of e-Health Summit webcasts this Wednesday, July 8.
Here’s a full listing of the six eHealth Summit topics (Eastern Time). Click on the links to attend any or all of the webcasts.  The series will be recorded for future on-demand access.Â
EHR 2.0: Federal HITECH Act Creates Opportunities Beyond EMRs
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Presenting Vince Kuraitis, Principal Better Health Technologies
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Data Convergence in Life Sciences and Healthcare
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Presenting Greg Nelson, President […]
Blueprint for Change: From EMR 1.0 to Clinical Groupware (EHR 2.0)
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 2002
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  Source: Venkatraman, N. Winning in a Network Centric Era, 2006
Blueprint for Health IT Shift
From EMR 1.0 — 2008…
…to Clinical Groupware/EHR 2.0 — 2012
Time for EHRs to Become Plug-and-Play
by David C. Kibbe MD, MBA
The remarkable report, “Initial Lessons From the First National Demonstration Project on Practice Transformation to a Patient-Centered Medical Home,” published in the May/June issue of Annals of Family Medicine, the Nutting Report, makes this point about the state of primary care IT offerings:
Technology needed in a PCMH is not “plug and play.” The hodge-podge of information technology marketed to primary care practices resembles more a pile of jigsaw pieces than components of an integrated and […]
Markle v. HIMSS: Differing Views of “Meaningful Use” and “Certification”
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The forthcoming definition of the “meaningful use” of health information technology will set the direction of the Obama administration’s strategy for health IT adoption, said David Blumenthal, the new national coordinator for health IT. Government HealthIT, April 28, 2009
…but not everyone sees eye-to-eye on the definitions of “meaningful use” and “certification”.  [See the first […]
Stunning Announcement: AMA Goes to the Dogs in Deal With Physician Web Portal Company
What’s stunning about this deal is who its NOT with. The AMA chose NOT to partner with any of the incumbent electronic medical record (EMR) companies, e.g., Allscripts, GE, Epic, NextGen, or many others.
For those of you who have not seen earlier posts in this series, please understand that the reference to “goes to the dogs” is a great compliment.
In a joint press release, the American Medical Association and Covisint unveiled an agreement yesterday:
Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) announced today that its Covisint subsidiary signed […]
Privacy Law Showdown? Legal and Policy Analysis.
#2 in a series — Modifications to HIPAA Privacy Laws: Impact on Microsoft HealthVault, Google Health, and other PHRs.Â
by Deven McGraw JD, MPH, Center for Democracy & Technology
Introduction
There has been considerable discussion lately about whether or not the stimulus legislation (ARRA) extends HIPAA coverage to commercial vendors of personal health records (PHRs) any time they contract with entities already covered by HIPAA like hospitals, health plans or physicians groups. (For those of you who don’t know, HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and […]
Privacy Law Showdown? Setting the Stage
Today’s post is the first in a series entitled:
Modifications to HIPAA Privacy Laws: Impact on Microsoft HealthVault, Google Health, and other PHRs.Â
We’ll explore how recent changes in privacy provisions of  ARRA/HITECH Federal stimulus legislation affect personal health information (PHI) platform companies (e.g., HealthVault, Google Health, Dossia) and personal health record (PHR) companies.
Health IT expert and journalist Neil Versel described the issue in the April 7 issue of BNET Healthcare:
Although Google and Microsoft have gotten plenty of attention for their Web-based personal health records, both companies have long […]
Is the Health Data Liquidity Glass Half Empty or Half Full?
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 of interoperability – from practical expectations for the near term and future years to the challenges of developing software architecture and implementation guides that can execute new […]
EHR 2.0: Thinking Outside the Cat Box
One of the potential dangers of limiting $17 B HITECH federal stimulus funds to electronic health records (EHRs) is the risk of locking-in outdated technologies. Let’s consider what this might mean.
If you think of today’s EHR technology as EHR 1.0, what might EHR 2.0 look like? This post presents a number of innovative ways to conceptualize EHR 2.0:
EHR as Platform + Applications
EHR as Clinical Groupware
EHR Integrated with PHR
EHR as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
EHR as a “Publish-Discover” Search Engine
EHR + Disease Management Services = […]