Archive for March, 2009
Using Privacy as Currency: Bringing the PHR to Market
Non-functional requirements add overhead to projects. Right or wrong, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick recognized this and is contemplating bypassing reviews for Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance for stimulus funded initiatives. Just as accessibility acts as an impediment to construction projects, privacy delays healthcare IT projects by introducing numerous complexities. Is it time to ignore the rules in order to bring innovation to market?
Advancing to healthcare 2.0 with web 3.0
Web 2.0 was all about user generated content making the web a self-sustainable source of information. Web 3.0 is about organizing this information so that it can be aggregated, analyzed, and used to make and influence decisions. But this won’t be done by idle hands pouring over the organization of content page by page – it will be about building domain ontologies and applying semantics to bring order from the chaos.
My Health History
My personal health records are scattered all over different doctor’s offices, hospitals, and boxes at home. Instead of waiting for my providers, health plans, and pharmacies to agree on, implement, and integrate EMR systems, I want to find out what I can do to have a better view of my own health history.
The task seems [...]
Wal-Mart, eClinicalWorks Change the Game
With all the talk of government stimulus and the Obama Administration’s mandates around healthcare, it’s the private sector making the big splash in HIT today with Wal-Mart partnering with Dell and eClinicalWorks to deploy low-cost EHR solutions to physicians.
Socializing Healthcare
Over the last five years it has become an accepted practice to “hang out” with your friends and family asynchronously using the internet. Initially, the available networking sites were fairly generic. Facebook.com served no purpose other than to connect anyone, anywhere, to share anything. LinkedIn.com narrowed their scope slightly by targeting professionals to connect and [...]
A recap of reactions to the Healthcare Stimulus in the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA)
Two weeks after President Obmama signed the ARRA into law, there has been much discussion of the merits and pitfalls of the approach that is being taken by the government to stimulate progress in healthcare. Here are some thoughts in response to the discussion…
What will come from this period of HITECH ambiguity?
Of the interesting topics discussed during Thursday night’s Transforming Healthcare Summit 2009, I found a few simple words to be the most intriguing – “certified” and “meaningful use”. These are of course the terms used in the recently signed Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, to determine if a provider’s EMR implementation enables them to collect their share of the $19.2 Billion stimulus.
