Microsoft Connected Health Conference
I spent all day yesterday at the Microsoft Connected Health Conference in Bellevue, Washington. I had to miss todays’ wrap-up sessions in order to attend a few other meetings, and was generally...
View ArticleSimulations and Public Access
Andrew Yates over at Think Gene has an interesting post suggesting A Force Fix for Healthcare. The idea is a simple one – all third party healthcare payers (insurance companies) must expose a web...
View ArticleThe Tories and HealthVault
The Google froth turned up an interesting op-ed from the Guardian newspaper in London. Apparently the Conservative party has started agitating for use of systems like HealthVault and Google Health to...
View ArticlePorter on Healthcare Reform
In the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Michael Porter, the Strategy Czar from Harvard Business School, has a very interesting manifesto on how to fix the healthcare system. Since...
View ArticleEHR Challenges in the Netherlands
My friend FJ, who blogs at TechSocioTech, sent me a link to a news article from a Dutch newspaper, covering the results of a survey of 1800 patients by the Dutch Patient Consumer Federation. Since my...
View ArticleChrome OS has nothing to do with PHRs
I usually don’t bother picking on other people’s editorials. But this one, from FierceHealth IT (which I usually like, incidentally – it’s a nice roundup of daily HIT stories) just struck me as trying...
View ArticleFuture of Google Health
John Moore at Chilmark Research asks today if Google Health is irrelevant. I’m re-blogging it because I agree with him. Microsoft is easily the leading player in broad audience Personal Health Record...
View ArticleCost Savings and Retail Clinics
I’ve been interested in retail clinics for years. It’s a wonderfully simple idea: there are a range of conditions for which a doctor just isn’t the right tool for the job, any more than you need a...
View ArticleA Final Word on Breach Notification
The new data breach notification rules for covered entities and PCHR Platform providers go into effect on September 23 (for covered entities) and September 24 (PCHR Platforms and providers). There’s a...
View ArticleAir Travel and Healthcare, Amended
The video below, “If Air Travel Worked Like Health Care” has been making the rounds of the healthcare blogosphere. I spotted it first over at Running a Hospital, and it’s based on Jeffrey Rauch’s...
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