So many blank spots on the clinical data map!
EMTs collect a lot of data on their trip to the emergency department — and usually, data treating ED physicians will want pretty badly when they see the patient. But in virtually every case, most of...
View ArticleWhy healthcare is so troubled, and what consumers are doing about it
Consumerism hasn’t completely caught on in healthcare, but it has gained a bit of a toehold. Consider these two slides shown Monday at the Healthcare Unbound conference in San Diego: Look at the bottom...
View ArticleTo Avoid Readmissions, Hospitals Trying Post-Discharge Clinics
In recent years, hospitals have been under increasing pressure to keep their readmission rates low. The next bump in the road comes in October 2012, when Medicare will begin cutting back on...
View ArticlePodcast: This time, I’m the interviewee
In a rare turn of events, I’m the one being asked the questions on a podcast by Sivad Business Solutions, which hosts regular audio discussions on a variety of business topics. I give kind of a...
View ArticleMy first portal experience
Yes, after all these years of writing about EMRs, EHRs, PHRs, patient portals and the like, I have had my first real personal experience with a patient portal, courtesy of my internist. He still has a...
View ArticleAutomation is good. Robocalls are bad.
I just got a robocall from my primary care physician’s office asking first if this was actually me — not that anyone would actually lie — and then if I had received a flu vaccine this season. Well, the...
View ArticleAbout that Friedman editorial
Did you happen to catch Thomas Friedman’s commentary in Sunday’s New York Times entitled, “Obamacare’s Other Surprise”? On first read, I gave it a big “Duh!” for the explanation that the Patient...
View ArticleThe ‘Hospital of Tomorrow’
WASHINGTON—I’ve just finished 2 1/2 days of helping US News and World Report cover its inaugural Hospital of Tomorrow conference. My assignment was to sit in on four of the breakout sessions, take...
View Article‘Escape Fire’ leaves out IT, ultimately disappoints
I finally got the opportunity to catch the documentary film “Escape Fire,” a good 15 months after it went into limited theatrical release and became available in digital formats. I thought it would be...
View ArticleVideo: Farzad Mostashari on patient engagement, ‘physician ACOs’
As I alluded to earlier, I was leaving the press room one afternoon at HIMSS14, and there I see former national health IT coordinator Dr. Farzad Mostashari hanging around Gregg Masters and Dr. Pat...
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