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Blumenthal’s Views = Lock-down on HIT Innovation?

Posted in Google, Microsoft, PHS, policy, standards, tagged , , , , , , on March 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Prof. David Blumenthal, the new head of ONC, makes some disturbing comments regarding the Stimulus Bill, HIT and HITECH Act  in his article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The article is not completely off-base as he does a very good job of describing the basics of the HITECH Act, its intentions and [...]

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Final Stimulus Bill Released

Posted in PHR, tagged , , on February 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Late last night (10:45pm EST to be exact) Congress released the negotiated final version of the Stimulus Bill (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) that is on its way to Obama’s desk for signature, which is expected on Monday. We’ve downloaded the massive bill, which combined (it’s currently broken into two parts, Division A and [...]

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Stimulus Package, HITECH Act and Ossification of HIT

Posted in CCD, standards, tagged , , , , , on February 3, 2009 | 16 Comments »

We are heading down the wrong path. Despite the rounds of applause from virtually all sectors of the healthcare establishment (AHA, HIMSS, AllScripts’ customers, etc.) the HITECH Act, as currently drafted in the Stimulus Bill (both House and Senate versions of HITECH are quite similar), will ossify healthcare IT (HIT) completely stagnating innovation in HIT.  [...]

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What Might an Ideal EHR Look Like?

Posted in EHR, EMR, PHR, consumer health, tagged , , on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A Blog I frequently visit is that of John Halamka, the CIO at Boston based Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital.  Halamka is also one of those people that has seemingly unlimited amounts of energy, is on all sorts of committees and arguably, one of the sharper minds out there with a deep understanding of healthcare IT. [...]

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Dis-information Among Those in the Know

Posted in EHR, Google, Microsoft, PHR, Privacy, tagged , , , , , , , on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here I am at the World Health Care Congress with what appears to be all the major movers and shakers in the healthcare sector, Chairmans, CEOs, Presidents, EVPs – some really big names, some very powerful players. Now I will never claim to be as brilliant as these people, after all, I’m writing this sitting [...]

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Civic Duty?

Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, PHR, RHIO, policy, standards, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

If you get bored of walking the aisles of HIMSS and can’t bear to hear another vendor pitch, well you could always wander over to a session where people will gather to discuss and reach consensus on what are arguably the 5 most used acronyms in the industry. You can contribute to the discussion as [...]

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WSJ/Harris Survey on Privacy & Electronic Records

Posted in EHR, EMR, PHR, Privacy, consumer health, tagged , , , , on December 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Last week the Wall Street Journal online edition released the findings of a November 2007 survey of 2000+ on consumer views of electronic records and privacy. Some of the key findings: 23% rely on their doctors to maintain their personal electronic medical record  and 3% maintain their own personal health record (PHR). 91% believe they [...]

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Wharton School Takes a Look at PHRs

Posted in EHR, EMR, Google, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, Privacy, tagged , , , , , , , on November 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »

University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School has published an article this week on the Personal Health Records (PHRs) market.  Article provides an overview on some of the key issues regarding PHRs, which may be useful for the layman, but unfortunately, they overlook a number of key points and in a couple of cases are just plain [...]

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Microsoft Joins Others to Rachet-up Privacy Campaign

Posted in HIE, Microsoft, Privacy, RHIO, Security, tagged , , , , , , on October 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Over on the WSJ Health blog there is a quick posting on how Microsoft joined with some 40 plus organizations including the ACLU, AIDS Action, and Gun Owners of America, to name a few in lobbying Congress, via letter, to update the nation’s privacy laws. Just as important as who is on the list are [...]

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Indivo Health: Further Details on Dossia Agreement

Posted in CCR, EHR, PHP, PHR, Privacy, RHIO, SaaS, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Had the opportunity last week to get an update from Will Crawford and Ken Mandl of the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP), a joint collaboration of Harvard Medical and MIT. The objective was to learn more about the recent agreement between CHIP and Dossia, whereby Dossia will adopt Indivo as the Personal Health Record (PHR) [...]

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