California’s Plan for Telehealth
The Center for Connected Health Policy has released a model statute for California that recommends modernizing state telemedicine and workforce laws, to encourage more robust adoption of telehealth technologies. The…
SRI International – Innovation Starts Here
The SRI was founded 1946 as part of Stanford University. This is fascinating place to work I would guess. Robert Scoble recently took a tour and provided videos that cover…
How Much to Budget for Health Care IT Personnel
With tons of money coming into the healthcare IT ecosystem, it’s become vogue to build healthcare IT and EHR applications. When an engineer new to healthcare looks at a typical…
Kaiser Adds 11 Neighborhood Medical Offices in Atlanta
Being in California I always think of the company’s presence here since this is where they began but they also have been expanding into several other regions of the country…
Anthem Increases in California – Close to 39%
Individual plan members have been sent letters advising of the increase. Anthem Blue Cross still states they have not made any profits on individual policies and thus we have another…
Great Health IT Conference Coming Up!
There are lots of conferences that take place in the USA and around the world on healthcare IT and medical device ecosystems — terrific gatherings like HIMSS and various other…
UVA Summit, 2nd Day – Ozmosis Interview
The second day of the University of Virginia Summit Conference was dedicated to presentations from numerous small businesses in varied fields. Byron Hewett introduced us to Quotient, a company that…
Obesity – A Disease?
Researchers now recognize that obesity does not simply result from willful overeating and laziness, but from the complex interaction of genetic, metabolic, behavioral, and environmental factors. Numerous organizations, including the…
EHR and Clinical App Speech Enabling
I spoke at length today with the nice folks from Nuance Healthcare and John Vasicek, Senior Engineering Director, sold me on their new Speech SDK (software development kit). Called “Speech…
The Insurance Czar
It is easy enough for those of us who are debating the merits of ObamaCare to lose track of just how profoundly this law has changed everything about health care…
