Engaging Conversations on Healthcare and Technology
Editor’s note: This article was originally published April 16 on Keith Boone’s Healthcare Standards blog. Special thanks to Keith for allowing us to republish the article in its entirety on HL7Standards.com. Six GOP Senators call for overview of Meaningful Use EHR incentive program was the tweet. It referenced this link. Which then referred to this report by Senators Thune, [...]
Part 2 in a series. Read Part 1: Brick Walls Are No Match For Regina Holliday’s Medical Advocacy “Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” ― Mary Anne Radmacher Think about the last time you saw, heard or experienced something [...]
Big Day in Genomics Angelina Jolie’s very open revelation, “My Medical Choice” in the The New York Times, was brave, and a “big day for genomics”, according to Leslie Ziegler of Rock Health. Jolie, in a powerful and personal narrative, explains why she chose a preventative double mastectomy after genetic testing found the BRCA1 gene. She was estimated to have [...]
Last week in a bold and historic move (and a bitter pill indeed for many healthcare executives finding themselves explaining the obscure financial inner workings of a hospital) the HHS/CMS released the national charge master data. The release seems to be a response to Steven Brill’s epic TIME magazine article on medical billing: Bitter Pill: [...]
I recently had the pleasure of attending a presentation by Grahame Grieve, the originator of FHIR, on the details behind this evolving health IT standard. I have written a couple of blogs previously to introduce FHIR, including 5 Things to Know About HL7 FHIR and Review of The HL7 FHIR Session at HIMSS13. This standard [...]
In my last post, I talked about the concept of slacktivism in the era of social media. Slacktivism is sort of a pseudo-activism , where participants takes part in gestures – like changing their Facebook profiles photos to that of a cause – that make them feel good, but are meaningless in making any real social change. [...]
A few weeks before we published Dave Chase’s first article for this blog, 5 Survival Strategies for Small to Medium-Sized EHRs, I reached out to him on LinkedIn and asked if he was interested in participating in a new column I was starting where I ask interesting, inspiring and even controversial health IT professionals five questions. [...]
“In the past man has been first. In the future the System will be first.” –Frederick Winslow Taylor “Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.” There was a time when engagement was the one-on-one relationship between a patient and physician and you could call your doctor on the phone. Do you remember that time? [...]
I learned a new word last week – slacktivism. It’s fitting I learned this word through Twitter since it, and other social media networks, are said to play a role in the phenomenon. So, what exactly is slacktivism? The word itself is a combination of the terms slacker and activism. If those words sound like they’re [...]
In Part 1, “Technology Driving New Models for Concierge Medicine and Direct Primary Care“, we looked at the growing movement in primary care to new retainer-based practice models. Concierge medicine and Direct Primary Care (DPC) practices are attracting doctors, patients, investors, and developers as they eliminate or minimize the role of insurance. In Part 2, we [...]
