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Joe Kvedar’s “cHealth blog” (Connected Health)

We’re long overdue in welcoming Joe Kvedar MD of Partners Healthcare to the blogosphere. From his About page: “The term “connected health” reflects the range of opportunities for technology-enabled care programs and the potential for new strategies in...

Dennis Quaid’s “Chasing Zero”

Actor Dennis Quaid has produced an outstanding, informative, empowering and motivating CME* program, “Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm.” It’s on the Discovery Channel. Part 1 is here. This is the best-produced material I’ve seen...

Teaching HIPAA with a Seinfeld clip

On my personal website I posted a HIPAA clarification flyer that I made up: “It’s your medical record. You have a right to it. It’s the law.” The PDF links to a Seinfeld clip from 1996 – the year HIPAA was passed.  

Insights on how the HITECH stimulus plan is working

In my previous post I noted that Vince Kuraitis and David Kibbe are running an excellent series, “Is HITECH Working?”* After a full year of increasing tensions, claims, and counterclaims, reading these posts has given me hope that it’s all panned out into...

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