Can Health IT’s Newest Ideas Reduce Cost, Improve Quality and Facilitate Patient Engagement?
Billed as ‘the most comprehensive and authoritative knowledge event in healthcare IT today’, the HIMSS12 Annual Conference commenced this week. Borrowing from the success of the TED conferences, the event…
Health Literacy Resources for Pharmacies
The AHRQ has released resources to help hospitals address Pharmacy Health Literacy; the degree to which individuals are able to obtain, process, and understand basic health and medication information and pharmacy…
Meaningful Use on the Red Carpet
This week at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems (HIMSS) conference, the CMS and ONC rolled out the red carpet for the Meaningful Use Stage 2 (“The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for…
Electronic Medical Records: From Clinical Decision Support to Precision Medicine
This is a presentation I gave to the Dutch delegation to HIMSS. It reflects much of my current thinking about current and future trends in health IT. This is…
The Medical Conspiracy of Silence
One of the most common complaints patients have about their doctors is that they will refuse to criticize a colleague even when they know that he has been grossly negligent…
Hospitals Can Be Dangerous
Patient rooms were found to contain overflowing trash bins, excrement and blood. Hundreds of medications were improperly administered to patients. Dozens of beds remained empty despite crushes of patients seeking…
NYT: Social Media May Offer Avenues of Mental Health Disease Recognition & Treatment
I am not an aficianado of Facebook, though I do realize its appeal among the social media faithful — within and outside the discipline of medicine. Don’t get me wrong. I…
HIMSS12 Storified: TwitBits, Thoughts, Takeaways
[View the story "#HIMSS12: TwitBits, Takeaways, Thoughts, " on Storify] [View the story "#HIMSS12: TwitBits, Takeaways, Thoughts, " on Storify]
Siemens Moves into Health Information Exchange
EXCLUSIVE POST - Siemens Healthcare arrived with a major presence at HIMSS and major announcements as well. The first was the acquisition of an Health Information Exchange developer, MobileMD. MobileMD…
Online HealthCare: Understanding Search Engines to Improve Your Searches
A larger number of physicians are now relying on Google to help them find information sources to help them diagnose or treat their most difficult cases. A larger number of…
