Hospitals

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Insights on how the HITECH stimulus plan is working

e-Patient Dave | April 22, 2010

In my previous post I noted that Vince Kuraitis and David Kibbe are running an excellent series, “Is HITECH Working?”* After a full year of increasing tensions, claims, and counterclaims, reading these posts has given me hope that it’s all panned out into something mortals can understand. (I’d been afraid to look!) In a day [...]

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Second wave of comments on Health IT safety issues

e-Patient Dave | March 16, 2010

Last month I posted the testimony I submitted to the Adoption/Certification Workgroup of the Health IT Policy Committee. (I urge interested parties to review the links to other resources in that post.) Today Paul Egerman, chair of that team, circulated a preliminary draft of recommendations from that meeting. Here is my response tonight, edited a [...]

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Healthcare journalists point out difficulty of using Joint Commission’s hospital quality site

e-Patient Dave | March 4, 2010

Empowered patients know they’re responsible for their choice of care providers. We usually follow our clinicians’ advice, but we take responsibility for it. That’s hard when a quality agency obscures its findings. So I object to a reality reported this week by AHCJ, the Association of Health Care Journalists: Joint Commission site obscures information. Excerpt: (emphasis added)