There have been a lot of discussions on the Net regarding the potential impact of the iPad in the healthcare sector. At this point, there is very little agreement with some pointing to the ubiquitous nature of the iPhone in healthcare as a foreshadowing of the iPad’s future impact, while others point to the modest [...]
Posts Tagged ‘adoption’
iPad in Healthcare: A Game Changer?
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, HIT, mHealth, policy, tagged adoption, Apple, ARRA, healthcare, HITECH Act, iPad, medical, medical education on April 8, 2010 | 18 Comments »
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 [...]
The HITECH Challenge: Is $19B Enough to Drive HIT Adoption
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, tagged adoption, HITECH, HITECH Act, Stimulus Bill on March 13, 2009 | 10 Comments »
With the HITECH Act passed and the Dept. of HHS feverishly working to draft a clear definition of what “meaningful use” and “certified EHR” actually mean for reimbursement purposes, a far bigger question looms: Is the promise of $19B dollars dedicated to reimbursing those hospitals and physicians who adopt and meaningfully use an EHR enough? [...]
Targeting Digital Natives
Posted in consumer health, policy, tagged adoption, digital natives, HIT on November 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Late last week, the MacArthur Foundation released the results of a seminal, 3-year ethnographic study that looked closely at how youth are using new media in their everyday lives. For the report, Living & Learning with New Media, some 800 youth were studied which included over 5,000 hours of observations of online activity. Researchers were [...]
CCHIT is Looking for $$$
Posted in EHR, EMR, policy, tagged adoption, CCHIT, HIT on November 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A significant portion of CCHIT’s funding has come from the government, though they have been able to shrink that reliance to roughly 50% or so of operating costs through the fees they charge EMR vendors to “certify” their products. But federal funds run out in March 2009 and CCHIT may not have a guarantee for [...]
Potential Impact of Widespread PHR Adoption
Posted in consumer health, PHR, policy, tagged adoption, citl on November 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Partners Healthcare pseudo-analyst firm, CITL has just released a monster report on the potential value of PHRs. At 144 pages, it is imposing, but don’t let the page count fool you as the Executive Summary will serve just fine for the majority of readers. Report was sponsored by Google, ICW, Kaiser-Permanente and Microsoft. Did [...]
Connected for Health: Day Two
Posted in consumer health, PHR, policy, telehealth, tagged adoption, HealthGrades, J&J, WebMD on October 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
8:00am, Keynote Regina Herzlinger, Professor @ Harvard and author of Who Killed Healthcare: Very good, thought provoking and at times funny presentation. If you ever get a chance to hear her present, do it! Key points made: Need to move to Consumer-Driven Health Plans (CDHP). CDHP’s are crippled until we, as a country are able [...]
Backstory on iPhone PHR: Interview with My Life Record CTO
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHR, tagged adoption, Apple, AppStore, iPhone, iTouch, MobileMe on October 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Late last week I had the chance to speak with the creators of the only true PHR (no, I do not consider simple ICE-type apps a PHR) that I know of which was purposely designed for the iPhone, My Life Record. Background: My Life Record was created by the small company, Life Record based in [...]
Where’s the $$$? or Economic Meltdown and HIT
Posted in consumer health, RHIO, tagged adoption, economy, HIE, HIT trends, IBM, Patients Like Me, PatientsLikeMe, policy, WebMD on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This morning’s Wall Street Journal has an article, first page – Section B, highlighting the growing impact of the financial crisis on the IT industry. The enterprise software powerhouse, SAP, shocked investors earlier this week when it warned that it would not meet its 3rd Qtr target, citing slowness in the mid-market. Another tech company, [...]
EmTech Session on EMRs
Posted in consumer health, EMR, Google, Microsoft, PHR, tagged adoption, Amalga, Azyxxi, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, eClinicalWorks, HHS, HIT, MedStar, P4P, quality on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you have read previous posts this week, you know that I was attending MIT’s EmTech conference. Event is a focused on technology and innovation of all stripes bringing together some pretty big names to discuss where we are today and where we are headed. For the first day, I had one continuous and long [...]
