Admittedly, our predictions for 2011 were modest. Most of those predictions were logical and did not take a whole lot of imagination to envision thus our success rate, 7 “hits”, 2 “toss-ups” and 2 “misses was quite high. And though are biggest accomplishment, predicting Blumenthal’s departure just a few short weeks before he actually announced [...]
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Predictions 2012: Not What You Think
Posted in ACO, Analytics, CCD, CDA, Cloud Computing, consumer health, EHR, EMR, HIE, mHealth, Security, standards on January 11, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Making Sense of the NHIN
Posted in CCD, CCR, CDA, HIE, RHIO, tagged NHIN, NHIN Direct on April 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The National Health Information Network (NHIN), which was the previous ONC head’s (Kolodner) top priority, or at least seemed that way is a concept that has its advocates and detractors. To date, we have been more of a detractor as the original NHIN was a very heavy, top down approach by the federal government to [...]
Pushing ONC to Act on Consumer’s Behalf
Posted in CCD, CCR, CDA, CMS, consumer health, EHR, EMR, eRx, PHP, PHR, tagged ARRA, HITECH Act, legislation, ONC, PHR systems, Rep Kennedy on September 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Just about anything you hear coming out of HHS’s ONC office is with regards to digitizing the doctor’s office. This is somewhat understandable as there is some $36B in ARRA funding just waiting for the rules on “meaningful use” (MU) to come out of CMS sometime in December. Until those rules are released, the EMR [...]
A Utility Called Dossia
Posted in CCR, CDA, consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, Privacy, tagged Dossia, Google, HealthVault, Indivo, Intel, Microsoft, PHR, Wal-Mart on December 5, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Earlier this year, Dossia established a partnership with the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP) at Children’s Hospital Boston to use the Indivo platform that CHIP developed. Indivo has been used in a couple of trial personal health record (PHR) applications, including one at HP for an employee flu immunization program and more recently at MIT [...]
