An X Prize for Health Care
September 27, 2012 Health care is the ONLY industry on earth that has gone into mass adoption of technology that LOWERS productivity.

EHR Beyond Meaningful Use: Productivity -- Part 3
March 26, 2012 Over the past two years, the big health care I.T. failure was spending billions switching from paper to electronic health...

EHR Beyond Meaningful Use: Productivity--Part 2
March 19, 2012 In my previous post I pointed out that a recent bipartison HIT policy report failed to address the role I.T. can play in...

EHR Beyond Meaningful Use: Productivity -- Part 1
March 12, 2012 As we see in most government and academic edicts on health care information technology, this document focuses on...

Get a Job
December 1, 2011 HIMSS is working on a program to help fill tens of thousands of critical open HIT jobs. Yet we constantly hear very...

Privacy is Easy
November 21, 2011 Insuring patient privacy is easy. Well, easier than information security.

No Security for Health Information
November 14, 2011 The daily stories of personal health information being stolen or lost cannot be a surprise to anyone by now.

The EHR Business – End of the Line
November 7, 2011 All software markets are finite. At some point there comes a time where, for all practical purposes, the marketplace is...

A Cure For The Pie In The Sky
June 23, 2011 Health care I.T. is one frustrating mess. There are lots of reasons: One huge problem is the government incentivizing people...

ACOs : A Moonshot?
March 29, 2011 But when it comes to Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), are the technological requirements equivalent to a roll of duct...

How To Succeed At EHRs While Really Trying
December 31, 2010 We mostly write from the perspective of health care providers and users of health care I.T., but this one time let’s take...

XML, New Design Mentality Raise Hope On The EHR Front
December 16, 2010 Based on our frequent conversations with practicing physicians, and knowledge of how other industries automated and...

Giving Doctors a Sixth Sense
November 8, 2010 We are slowly but surely seeing a shift away from the standard Windows motif for electronic health records user interfaces....

AHIMA Trip Report
September 29, 2010 This week we took a trip to Orlando to visit the 82nd Annual American Health Information Management Association Conference &...

Is Meaningful Use a Distraction?
September 7, 2010 Lately, most of the news and commentary about Electronic Health Records (EHR) has focused on Meaningful Use (MU) instead of...