Marc Perlman, Government Health IT
“We are rapidly approaching the inflection point for the next generation of healthcare. Our journey toward the concept of P4 (Predictive, Preventive, Personalized and Participatory) medicine requires rethinking of the overarching technology, interoperability, processes and people that will need to be in place to support outcomes-focused care.
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Mary Mosquera and Tom Sullivan, Government Health IT
“Electronic health records are only a beginning of sorts. Although a top priority for providers, the meaningful use of EHRs is not the end goal – rather, the health data that EHRs make more accessible stands to unleash a wave of applications, products and services that ultimately catalyze improvements in health care, delivery and outcomes for both individual and population health.
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Leonard Kish, opensource.com
“What a difference three years makes. It seems quaint now that in the 2008 NEJM there were concerns raised about the flow of health information onto the web. Back then there was but a faint trickle of what could be entered, mostly by hand, and accessed on the web.
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Leonard Kish, HL7 Standards
“What a difference three years makes. It seems quaint now that in the 2008 NEJM there were concerns raised about the flow of health information onto the web. Back then there was but a faint trickle of what could be entered, mostly by hand, and accessed on the web.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“After reading an article on the five key features of tomorrow’s EHR, I wondered how the current EHR products are going to transition to meet the demands of healthcare providers and patients.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Chilmark Research has just released the Executive Summary of its iPHR Market Report to the general public via the open publishing website, Scribd.
Maybe this was an act of generosity in honor of the shortest month of the year.
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Carl Brooks, SearchCloudComputing
“Vacationing in exotic Morocco, you fall and break your arm on one of the shady streets of Casablanca’s Old Quarter. Speaking neither French nor Arabic, you are desperate to inform the doctors at the nearest hospital that you are diabetic and due for insulin any minute, along with concerns about your allergies to several common medications and materials such as penicillin and latex.
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Kristine Martin Anderson, Margo Edmunds, Mark Belanger, Susan Penfield, Managed Healthcare Executive
“Until recently, efforts to integrate health IT have focused on increasing acquisition and adoption of EHRs. The current industry focus, however, is on the development of consensus-based guidelines on the “meaningful use” of EHRs to qualify for the federal incentive payments.
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Healthcare IT
“The World Health Organization (WHO) defines e-Health as the combined use of electronic communication and information technology in the health sector. It is a philosophy that empowers health care consumers by bringing information, products and services online, i.e., electronically.
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Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog
“Mayo Clinic and Microsoft are today launching a combined product called the Mayo Clinic Health Manager (and they’ll be showing it Thursday 23rd at the Health 2.0 Meets Ix conference). What this product does is essentially combine the care guidelines and rules that Mayo has developed over the years with an individual’s data in their HealthVault account to trigger recommendations about care.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“I started the week with a blog about the Limitations of Administrative Data, so it’s fitting to end the week with lessons learned and next steps.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“I’ve recently been asked to provide a list of the data elements of an EHR which might be used as part of the ARRA mandate to exchange data as part of meaningful use. There are a nearly infinite number of actors, actions and events for data exchange, but in the interest of getting “data liquidity” in healthcare, here are the elements that are most commonly used and represent a great starting point for healthcare information exchange.
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Vince Kuraitis, e-CareManagement blog
“While the CCHIT report explains in great detail why data interoperability is not feasible today, the NYP/Microsoft partnership documents that creating data liquidity (appropriate flow and exchange of health information) is very doable today.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“The point here is that, “it’s about the data and knowledge-sharing, stupid,” which is a sentence that the peer-reviewed NEJM would probably not allow in its learned pages.
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David C. Kibbe, Peter Neupert, The Health Care Blog
“Now that the Obama administration and Congress have committed to spending billions of tax payers’ money on health IT as part of the economic stimulus package, it’s important to be clear about what consumers and patients ought to expect in return—better decision-making by doctors and patients.
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Susan Penfield, Kristine Martin Anderson, Margo Edmund, and Mark Belanger, Booz Allen Hamilton
“Recognizing the challenges presented by the current state of our economy and national discussions about healthcare reform, Booz Allen Hamilton and the Federation of American Hospitals have collaborated to examine the ways that health information technology, in combination with communications technology (hereafter referred to simply as health IT), can accelerate progress toward the goal of a patient-centered healthcare system.
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“A new report from a national consulting firm calls for shifting the focus of the national health information technology strategy away from electronic health records and toward the sharing of information.
Booz Allen Hamilton released the report, “Toward Health Information Liquidity: Realization of Better, More Efficient Care From the Free Flow of Health Information,” at a press conference in Washington today. The Federation of American Hospitals, which represents for-profit hospitals, helped pay for the report.”
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Nanacy Ferris, Government Health IT, 12 January 2009
