by e-Patient Dave | Mar 22, 2011
There’s so much going on health IT these days, it’ll make your head spin. Fortunately, it appears a bang-up good job is being done by the health IT team at HHS and the implementers they’re working with. Example of “head spin” and...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 21, 2011
Readers interested in health IT issues will want to know about today’s webcast at 1:00 ET, and the policy issue described here by SPM’s policy chair David Harlow (Twitter @HealthBlawg), from the SPM members listserv: There’s a significant announcement out...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 24, 2011
EMR and HIPAA is a great blog about health IT technology – well written, thoughtful, with personality. But I disagreed today with a post about the huge HIMSS conference (Health Information Management Systems Society) that ends today in Orlando. John wrote that...
by David Harlow | Feb 23, 2011
The Health Research Institute at PricewaterhouseCoopers released a report today entitled Putting patients into “meaningful use.” It begins with the anecdote I’ve blogged about previously regarding a diagnosis by Facebook in lieu of a PHR, which some...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 29, 2011
We’ve recently been talking here about problems with poor study design in clinical trials. A health IT version of this problem raced through the newswires this week while I was on the road. The news coverage was particularly naïve, illustrating our point....
by Susannah Fox | Jan 26, 2011
The Pew Internet Project recently issued a short report noting that people living with disability are less likely than other adults in the U.S. to use the internet: 54%, compared with 81%. The first question many people ask when they hear that is, Why? The second is,...
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