Yesterday, had the privilege to attend and present to a packed audience in New York City for CRG’s conference: IT & the Future of Managed Care: The Next Wave. Unlike most conferences I attend that are predominately focused on either the provider consumer sector of the healthcare market (tomorrow its the local New England HIMSS [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Managed Care, HIT & ARRA
Posted in CMS, consumer health, Dossia, EHR, EMR, Google Health, HealthVault, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, PHR, telehealth, tagged ARRA, healthcare IT, healthcare reform on March 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Consumer Consent and HIEs
Posted in consumer health, HIE, policy, Privacy, Security, standards, tagged HHS, NHIN, ONC on March 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
One of the thornier issues regarding the establishment of public Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) is how to manage consumer consent of personal health information (PHI) sharing. Today, there is no single standard approach across the US. Some states have an opt-in process, others an opt-out. Granularity of data shared, use cases for data sharing, etc. [...]
Apple Targets Healthcare Enterprise
Posted in PHR, tagged AllScripts, Apple, case studies, ePocrates, iPhone on March 23, 2010 | 12 Comments »
While the Apple iPhone was first targeted at the general consumer, Apple has been taking the necessary steps to bring this device into the enterprise, directly competing with RIM’s Blackberry. Unseating the Blackberry in many sectors, such as finance, may be near impossible but healthcare is another story. Within healthcare, Palm, with its Treo was [...]
Relax Meaningful Use… but Not Too Much
Posted in CCD, CCR, consumer health, EHR, EMR, Google Health, HealthVault, policy, tagged HIT, meaningful use on March 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Reading through the headlines, the press releases and checking in on today’s HIT Policy Committee meeting, it appears that the over-riding theme of comments regarding Meaningful Use (MU) rules (these were due by COB on 3/15) is to relax the rules, particularly regarding reimbursement and clarify other requirements of MU to ease the burden on [...]
Its Not About Meaningful Use
Posted in EHR, EMR, tagged adoption, HITECH Act, primary care on March 10, 2010 | 5 Comments »
With the impending comment deadline for Meaningful Use (MU) fast approaching, many organizations, from CHIME to AHA to AAFP and others are asking for some form of relaxation of MU criteria in the final version. Now it is not to say these concerns are not justified, it just may be that they are misplaced for [...]
Another Year, Another HIMSS
Posted in EHR, EMR, HealthVault, HIE, Microsoft, PHR, tagged HIMSS'10, PaaS on March 5, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Coming back from HIMSS and really scratching my head trying to think of what incredible new and novel thing(s) did I see, hear about or experience at the conference. Nothing stood out. Here it is just my third HIMSS and I am already getting a bit bored, struggling to find those truly exciting advances that [...]
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