Engaging Conversations on Healthcare and Technology
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Posted in #HITsm, Health care, Social Media | View Comments
“By lowering the learning curve of Twitter with a database of relevant healthcare hashtags to follow, we hope to help new and existing users alike find the conversations and people of interest and importance.” Despite naysayers and laggards, the growth ... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
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Have you wondered what it takes to become an entrepreneur in mHealth? In this new series, “Women in mHealth”, I will take a look at women entrepreneurs leading the way and innovating healthcare through mHealth startups. I hope their stories inspire you. ... Read entry ⇒
Monday, June 21st, 2010
Posted in Healthcare IT, Healthcare Standards, HL7 Standards, Meaningful Use | View Comments
nts, trends and issues. Each of the following twitter feeds are the voices of key individuals and organizations involved in the healthcare policy transformation, significant current events and the exciting debates defining the future of the healthcare ind... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
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and modified so as to be relevant to the topic of this post at HL7 Standards: Is Health IT Trapped in the Physical Geography of Healthcare? Before reframing the chicken and egg question, though, let me lay the groundwork for @CLOUDHealth’s series of... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Posted in ACO, HIE, NHIN | View Comments
final and third of three guest posts, we flip our perspective to the institution and ask if there can be a virtual geography of healthcare, rather than a physical one. This is a vital question, because the evolving HIEs (Health Information Exchange) and A... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
Posted in Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, HITECH, mHealth | View Comments
at settlement? How much were the legal costs to arrive at that settlement? Shouldn’t those dollars be applied directly to healthcare instead of just being added to government coffers? I know $500m is a small amount in Big Government terms, but the f... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Posted in ACO, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, HIE, Meaningful Use | View Comments
xperience Conference April 25-27 in Fort Worth, Texas. Jason is a passionate advocate for improving the “patient experience” in healthcare, and he travels the country visiting different hospitals to see successful initiatives firsthand, and shares his fin... Read entry ⇒
Friday, February 8th, 2008
Posted in CCD, CCR, CDA, HL7 Standards | View Comments
By now, you may have had enough of primaries and election results. What if, however, we applied the primary election process to healthcare standards? What would happen? Just as there are factions the political candidates are trying to pull together to wi... Read entry ⇒
Friday, December 17th, 2010
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Last June, we published the Top 10 Twitter Feeds to Follow for News on Healthcare IT. The health IT online community has grown substantially over the last 6 months. In light of that growth, we’d like to refresh the list with the official top #HITsm (heal... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Posted in ACO, EMR, HIE | View Comments
8217;t Believe So With the help of Andrea Littlefield (@BangorBeacon), I asked health IT leaders from Pioneer ACO Eastern Maine Healthcare System to share their experiences participating in the program, about the IT infrastructure they have in place to co... Read entry ⇒
