Comments on: Golden Fleece Revisited or Here’s What You Get for a Half Million $$$s http://chilmarkresearch.com/2008/05/23/golden-fleece-revisited-or-heres-what-you-get-for-a-half-million-s/ Providing perspective on key IT trends in the healthcare sector Thu, 31 May 2012 17:36:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Time to Kill the PHR Term: Part 2 « Chilmark Research http://chilmarkresearch.com/2008/05/23/golden-fleece-revisited-or-heres-what-you-get-for-a-half-million-s/#comment-3618 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:49:19 +0000 http://hitanalyst.wordpress.com/?p=214#comment-3618 [...] PHR to their patients by 2013.  Trouble here is how will HHS define what that PHR is?  Last year, HHS paid a princely sum to have the PHR term defined (see below).  This term, we have been told, is what will be used [...]

]]> By: John http://chilmarkresearch.com/2008/05/23/golden-fleece-revisited-or-heres-what-you-get-for-a-half-million-s/#comment-760 Tue, 27 May 2008 15:55:19 +0000 http://hitanalyst.wordpress.com/?p=214#comment-760 Agree Will, five years too late and now $500,000 poorer.

To think what that $500,000 could have done in another venue, say some ROI studies of PHR effectiveness and best practices to promote adoption.

Hey Dept HHS, I just finished a lengthy report and looking for something new, how about pushing me $500K and I’ll do that ROI/adoption study. Rest assured, the tax payer will get their money’s worth!

And you know what, it may just do a better job of promoting HIT adoption than this effort to define some common acronyms.

]]> By: Will http://chilmarkresearch.com/2008/05/23/golden-fleece-revisited-or-heres-what-you-get-for-a-half-million-s/#comment-756 Tue, 27 May 2008 14:54:17 +0000 http://hitanalyst.wordpress.com/?p=214#comment-756 And they don’t conform to everyday usage, either. 90% of PHRs don’t conform to “recognized standards”, I’ve never heard anyone use the phrase HIO, and EHR and EMR are effectively interchangeable – at least according to the vendors. We’re about five years too late for that particular bit of nuance to take hold!

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