by e-Patient Dave | Mar 4, 2010
Bob Brewin writes today in NextGov that the VA discovered a glitch in a system interface that could display the wrong patient’s information under peak load circumstances. The VA handled it in an exemplary fashion: they immediately issued a safety alert and shut...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 24, 2010
As I’ve noted recently, this Thursday I’m on a stakeholder panel at a meeting of the Adoption/Certification Workgroup, which is part of the Federal Health IT Policy Committee. As noted in my previous post, this is a busy day, and each of us gets only 5-7...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 20, 2010
I wrote last Wednesday about some background material for a panel I’ll be attending Thursday, as part of the government’s process to encourage adoption of electronic medical records. In the current administration all such discussions are wide open to the...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 19, 2010
Denny Porter is executive-in-residence at the HIMSS Foundation, Institute for e-Health Policy. I met him in Washington last month at the eHealth Initiative’s annual conference, where I was on a panel. Great guy, and I love this proposal: a Federal Health Records...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 18, 2010
I’d like your help preparing thoughts and testimony for a policy meeting I’ve been invited to attend in Washington next week. For these meetings, one needs to submit prepared remarks in advance, for the committee to digest in advance. And from what...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 2, 2010
Guest post by Alan Viars (@Aviars), CEO of Videntity Systems, Inc. This past year my father required open heart surgery. This is a short article about the hurdles we (his family) encountered along the way. I’ve changed the names, because it is not my intention to...
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