February 2010 - EHR: How difficult without the correct strategy

If I remember my physics correctly, there’s no discernable difference between screaming in a vacuum and not screaming in a vacuum, unless of course someone turns it on while you’re in it, and then by default, you’re screaming. That seemed to make sense to me during my run, but seeing it on the screen...

Like anyone needs my advice as to how to do that. Go ahead, have at it. Go shopping. Shop to you drop. How much do you need? Suppose we open the coffers. How much; another million? Ten Million? Twenty-five, fifty? $100,000,000? This is a one-time offer, so make sure you ask for everything you need What...

The new meetup.com group is up and running. There is a distinction between the business of healthcare and the healthcare business. The first is more about managing the dollars and cents, and the latter is about delivering outstanding care. Many argue that the business of healthcare operates under an...

The following is the comment I posted to, Kent Bottles: Is It Really Impossible to Control the Cost of Health Care in the U.S.? Kent, your narrative should be mandatory reading for all those in Washington whose vision of reform stands in stark contrast to the piece. Then, before they are allowed to propose...

Did I mention that I like to sing? No? Don’t tell anyone, but I just downloaded some Tom Jones to my MP3 so I can belt out a rendition of Delilah while I’m running—I only do this when I’m certain nobody is around. This doesn’t quite foot with my college collection of albums from Pink [...] Read More...

Counting me, there were six of us; college spies. Maybe that is a grammatical error; we were spies who happened to be in college. Well, maybe that%u2019s a half-truth. We were co-op students with rather high security clearances, working at a place in the DC area which made the type of things of which...

What Would You Do Without MU? I was wondering how CIOs would approach the implementation of EMRs if they had never heard the term Meaningful Use. The more I thought about the question, the more I felt it merited discussion. If I were a CIO, I would not let these outside regulatory influences dictate...