The title sounds all sunshine and daffodils, doesn’t it? Create your mission in health IT, how cute. But let’s deal with reality: very few people…
Archive | May, 2013
Lies, Damn Lies and Politics
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…
Becoming Somebody: Regina Holliday Doesn’t Give Up When it Comes to Speaking Up For Patients
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…
The Angelina Effect and the Next Megatrend: Intersection of Biology and Technology
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…
Bitter Pills: In Defense of The CMS Move Toward Meaningful Billing
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…
The Interoperability Paradigms of HL7 FHIR
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….
Brick Walls Are No Match For Regina Holliday’s Medical Advocacy
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…
5 Questions With Dave Chase, CEO of Avado
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…