Engaging Conversations on Healthcare and Technology
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Posted in Healthcare Standards, Meaningful Use | View Comments
During the past few weeks, the debate and discussion on healthcare standards have been interesting. Outlined below are a few highlights. Highlight 1: In NextGov, an article entitled “Keep Health IT Standards Simple, Says Chief Technology Officer... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Posted in HL7 Basics, HL7 Standard | View Comments
“Simplicity is drawn from the complexity of problems. Once you ultimately deal with the complexity, the simple solution is no longer simple.” – Wes Rishel This week I’m attending the SOA in Healthcare Conference co-sponsored by H... Read entry ⇒
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Posted in HIE, HITECH, NIHN | View Comments
..., with HIE being the one most used today. What is HIE or Health Information Exchange? eHealth Initiative defines it in the most simple terms: The act of transferring health information electronically between two or more entities. The Markle Foundation use... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Posted in #HITsm, Health care, Healthcare IT, Social Media | View Comments
...some don’t. Unfortunately, one single application that measures everything does NOT exist. Is measuring social media success as simple as counting the number of “Likes” on your hospital/practice Facebook page? Maybe – but probably not. How do you determin... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Posted in #HITsm, Health care, Social Media | View Comments
...cial media, and represents the @HealthStandards Twitter Chat and related content on this topic. A good hashtag is short and simple. Hashtags allow you to search a topic to find all the people talking about that topic. The Healthcare Hashtag Project si... Read entry ⇒
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Posted in EHR, EMR, PHR | View Comments
...sm and the opportunities technology has provided us, I thought that collecting my personal health information would be a fairly simple and straightforward task. Instead, the wide range of service I was provided when simply trying to collect my medical rec... Read entry ⇒
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Posted in Healthcare Standards, HL7 Terms | View Comments
...ce of 125. Rich Elmore discusses the “large code set problem” in a 2008 blog posting where he uses the example of a simple code (“insect bite”) and compares ICD-9 and ICD-10. Coding this simple example is much harder in ICD-10. Add... Read entry ⇒
Friday, November 13th, 2009
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... post, as it is worth the time. To entice you, outlined below are the seven key points discussed by Adam. Keep the standard as simple and stupid as possible. The data being exchanged should be human readable and easy to understand. Standards work best wh... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Posted in ACO, Health care | View Comments
...o be a more entry-level type option for setting up a health system. A way that achieves the quality and efficiency gains with a simple approach that can then be scaled upward as the system is proved in. That would draw the medical-mind and business-mind c... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
Posted in Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, HITECH, mHealth | View Comments
... a difference in healthcare. We need to foster, encourage and promote all those people and that activity in every possible way. Simple math says that 20 companies (two cohorts per year) at $20k each, plus rent, payroll, legal and all the other expenses sh... Read entry ⇒
