EHR

medical records, policy issues

Health Geek Radio: Adam Bosworth’s Straight Talk Express

Susannah Fox | May 4, 2010

Adam Bosworth of Keas delivered quite a lecture yesterday at the Alliance for Healthcare Foundation. He talks about how Americans don’t really like data (but they need it), why “frugal innovation” is the best path for start-ups, how e-Patient Dave shook up the EHR world, why health privacy legislation would kill patient-driven research, and why [...]

general, medical records, policy issues, reforming hc, trends & principles

Meaningful Use: The Elephant IS In The Room

Gilles Frydman | May 18, 2009

Comparative Effectiveness: a comparison of the impact of different options that are available for treating a given medical condition for a particular set of patients. Such studies may compare similar treatments, such as competing drugs, or they may analyze very different approaches, such as surgery and drug therapy. The analysis may focus only on the [...]

medical records, policy issues, trends & principles

EMRs: “Would you take it if it were FREE?”

e-Patient Dave | May 15, 2009

Blogger John at the “EMR (EHR) and HIPAA” blog posted a musing that caused my business antennas to twitch. A vigorous discussion has started in the comments.

general, positive patterns, reforming hc

Saving Lives, Old-School Style

John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | December 9, 2008

What if there was a simple, old-school style procedure that could save tens of thousands of lives every year? Better yet, what if it could be implemented at minuscule costs (about $3 million to rollout nationwide), and would require very little change in anyone’s procedure or daily lives? What if that procedure was something as [...]