Engaging Conversations on Healthcare and Technology
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Posted in CCD, CCR, Meaningful Use | View Comments
There has been a great deal of discussion on what is happening – and will happen – with the two continuity of care standards. As a refresher, the two are: ASTM Continuity of Care Record (CCR): an XML-based standard for the movement of “docu... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Posted in Health care | View Comments
...my hands, all this person’s memories, experiences, and stories were in this brain, and it was truly a humbling experience. Life continues. This is true in more ways than I imagined. For me, it continues on my path to become a physician. For the human body... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Posted in HL7 Standard, HL7 Standards | View Comments
HL7 Standards Update. HL7 2.X continues to march forward with new releases. HL7 2.6 is done (just published this week) and proposals for 2.7 have closed — the first ballot for HL7 2.7 will be in May 2008. From a practical perspective, this means th... Read entry ⇒
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
Posted in Health care, PHR | View Comments
...to as wide a population as possible, they can do that, too. As our investments in the digitization of electronic health records continues and accelerates, we must get the privacy and security model right so that we don’t perpetuate the problem we ha... Read entry ⇒
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Posted in Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, Meaningful Use | View Comments
...rding the state of health IT and the positive impact of Meaningful Use. The above information is helpful to follow as progress continues with the HITECH implementation. ... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Posted in ACO, HIE, Meaningful Use, Poll Results | View Comments
... initial programs’ implementation. Otherwise, they will direct attention following the larger programs’ implementation, As time continues, personal health and collective health care may merit greater attention as they become an increasing priority for pat... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Posted in ACO, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, HIE, Meaningful Use | View Comments
...important nature of quality and patient safety, and the recognition that experience starts well before a clinical encounter and continues well after the patient leaves the care setting. To create a more standard perspective on this key component of health... Read entry ⇒
Monday, October 17th, 2011
Posted in #HITsm, Health care, Social Media | View Comments
.... But no matter where you fall on this spectrum or how many resources you’ve dedicated to your social media strategy, one thing continues to be debated—employee access to social media in the workplace. I recently conducted a survey of health care organiza... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Posted in #HITsm, Health care, Social Media | View Comments
...like find the conversations and people of interest and importance.” Despite naysayers and laggards, the growth of social media continues to explode. In the past year, the number of tweets per day on Twitter has risen 252 percent as shown in this excerpt ... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
Posted in Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, Healthcare IT, Healthcare Standards, HL7 Basics, HL7 Integration, HL7 Messaging, HL7 Standard, HL7 Standards, What is HL7? | View Comments
Discussion about the HL7 clinical data standard Competing healthcare integration standards cause much confusion for users. The HL7 clinical data standard has been growing and changing for a very long time and it continues to do so with new releases of HL... Read entry ⇒
