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HIE, SaaS and Low-Cost, Nationwide

Posted on February 15, 2009
HIE, SaaS and Low-Cost, Nationwide Adoption of EHRs « Chilmark Research. This post highlights why SaaS is the preferred architecture for small primary care providers that will soon be "incented" to make the move to electronic health records.Given the architectural...

Focusing on EMR's Misses the Point

Posted on February 11, 2009
Given the funding available in the stimulus package for adoption of electronic medical records it is little wonder that the buzz factor has increased significantly around this topic. Healthcare is one industry likely to see significant economic activity over the...

Google & IBM: Taking Your Pulse?

Posted on February 05, 2009
Tech Giants Want to Take Your Pulse: This article from Forbes illustrates why change will come to the healthcare industry. It will come partly from technology vendors pushing the interests of consumers with support from the Federal government. It is....

EMR Pain is Real!

Posted on January 29, 2009
Obama and Congressional Leaders Can?t Overlook EMR Failure Rates | EMR and HIPAA. This post raises some not only interesting, but ultimately quite useful, points regarding the level of resistance that might be encountered as the nation attempts to move...

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Why Knowledge Management?

Posted on January 29, 2009
We forget. That's one of the key reasons for using knowledge management technologies. We all know stuff, but unless that stuff is organized in a manner that is readily accessible (and "searchable") then for the most part it is fugitive....

The Pope Goes to YouTube

Posted on January 27, 2009
Here's the Vatican's YouTube channel. There's a rumor (far as I know) about how Jesse James answered when someone asked him "Why do you rob banks?" The answer was purportedly "because that is where the money is." I suspect that...

Gov 2.0 & Health 2.0

Posted on January 21, 2009
White House 2.0 is indicative that there is a new sheriff in town and what may have been partly missed in all the discussion regarding race and history is the fact the Obama is clearly looking forward to engage with...

Full EHR by 2014?

Posted on January 14, 2009
Obama Wants Full EHR by 2014 | EMR and HIPAA. Full EHR by 2014 is certainly an ambitious goal but if we do not put a stake in the ground it will be 2050 and there will be little or...

Healthcare Poised for a Business Revolution?

Posted on January 13, 2009
Building a Healthcare Bubble « Remaking Healthcare. Expect to see a significant amount of entrepreneurial activity in the healthcare space over the next few years. Anyone that remotely follows this industry gets this sense on a daily basis. The signs...

The cloud? It's Just Economics 101.

Posted on January 13, 2009
That is the argument that Nick Carr makes in The Big Switch with respect to cloud computing. Here's the money quote: A hundred years ago, companies stopped generating their own power with steam engines and dynamos and plugged into the...

Law Practice on the Cloud and Amazon's S3?

Posted on January 11, 2009
We host our entire law practice on the cloud: matter management, document management, email & calendaring, accounting, phones & fax (VOIP), etc. Well, not exactly everything, we still create and store client documents temporarily on local devices, as well as...

New Laws for Electronic Medical Records?

Posted on January 10, 2009
HealthBlog : Electronic Medical Records--just part of needed transformation. The Obama administration is apparently putting a stake in ground with respect to electronic medical records (EMRs). This is a welcome development but not surprising since there is widespread consensus that...

Moved to eBay?

Posted on January 08, 2009
I have a good friend who is a CIO within a commercial real estate firm and we had a recent conversation about retail space. The anecdotal information he gets from brokers is that this downturn is different from others in...

Health Care Fee For Service is Dead: RIP

Posted on January 08, 2009
OK, maybe it's not dead yet but it is on its way out if you read between the lines. I caught Stuart Altman on the NewsHour tonight and he gave a nod in that direction. For those of you who...

Healthcare Reform: It's the MHR Stupid!

Posted on January 05, 2009
Electronic health records are all the rage in healthcare circles these days and you are likely to see all of the following acronyms used: EMR (electronic medical records), EHR (electronic health record), PHR (personal health record). The healthcare industry uses...

Healthcare & Education

Posted on January 04, 2009
There is a lot talk about "shovel ready" projects related to infrastructure where the stimulus money needs to be spent, and where it can quickly be spent, in order to get the economy moving ASAP. I am all for rebuilding...

Chuck Newton is The Third Wave

Posted on January 03, 2009
Futurelawyer: Chuck Newton Third Wave Manifesto. I would like to echo The Future Lawyer's recommendation of Chuck Newton's blog. Chuck is a gifted writer and consistently offers sage advice regarding alternative ways of practicing law. This guy is the real...

Twitter for Lawyers?

Posted on January 03, 2009
HealthBlawg: Twitter for lawyers. I am one of those geek lawyers who have resisted Twitter until recently, convinced by another uber HealthTech blogger and for all the "social media" reasons that David cites in his post. Looks like 2009 will...

Why health care is broken and why there is hope?

Posted on December 31, 2008
For various reasons I will be turning my professional attention to the health care industry in 2009. So as part of that initiative I have started reading Redefining Health Care by Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg. This is a dense...

Escaping the Web 2.0 Echo Chamber?

Posted on December 28, 2008
Google, WalMart, and MyBarackObama.com: The Power of the Real Time Enterprise - O'Reilly Radar. This is an extremely insightful post on Tim's part. The tech echo chamber tends to focus on "fads" that are important, but ultimately unsustainable. The real...

Amazon's Santa?

Posted on December 27, 2008
At Least Amazon Had A Good Christmas. When almost all retailers, including the online retailers (but less so here), had a bad Christmas,why did Amazon have a good one? A trusted brand is clearly one reason, but I think there...

Not a News Flash, BUT:

Posted on December 25, 2008
Pew Survey Confirms What We All Know: Net Beats Newspapers As A Source For News. Definitely this is not news for most of us because we have been getting our news online for many years now. Still, to have the...

Malcom Gladwell: Outliers

Posted on December 23, 2008
Malcolm has done it again. This is another great read. Lots of good stuff here, despite the fact that it might not get quite the acclaim of "The Tipping Point" and "Blink." Malcolm has a unique gift of following a...

Blockbuster v. Netflix?

Posted on December 23, 2008
OK, I have been hanging on to our Blockbuster membership despite the fact that I knew that there were other "more viable" options. I clearly was aware of Netflix's offering. Why hang on? Dunno. Ritual maybe. I would usually go...

Digital Haves and Have Nots?

Posted on December 09, 2008
Link: Tribune Company Files Bankruptcy. OK, perhaps there are any number of reasons why this happened, and not just the death spiral of its newspaper holdings, but I suspect that this is a harbinger of things to come. The brave...

Twitter as a News Source?

Posted on November 27, 2008
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/27/i-cant-believe-some-people-are-still-saying-twitter-isnt-a-news-source/ I believe that Twitter (and Yammer but probably to a lesser degree because it does not have the same "network effect") will likely emerge as part of an emergency management notification system...

More on Cloud Computing.

Posted on November 26, 2008
It seems like more and more I have been reading about cloud computing and reasons that businesses should fear it. I suppose that this is "natural" since people tend to fear what they don't understand or in the case of...

Virtual Conferences?

Posted on November 20, 2008
Link: Healthcare & Technology: Have you ever attended a Virtual Conference?. Wow, this is amazing stuff. I got a sneak preview into this virtual world and was "blown away." While I am definitely a geek, I have yet to venture...

The End of Bigness?

Posted on November 15, 2008
Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of the dominance of huge business organizations? Look at who is failing in a colossal fashion: big banks, big automakers, big insurance companies. Sure, there are probably, percentage wise, a significant number...

The Internet & the Presidency?

Posted on November 05, 2008
This post is not political commentary but rather one related to the idea captured in Clay Shirky's book "Here Comes Everybody. The power to organize without organizations." This is part of the untold story of this election. Who needs brick...

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