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“Closing the loop” is a term that describes a well-functioning coordinated healthcare delivery system. It implies that clinical information flows easily during a medical referral – the referring clinician is able to let the recipient clinician know the...
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Over the past decade, I've been closely involved in the evolution of clinical summary/transition of care content standards. We started with CDA, then merged the CDA and CCR to create the CCD, which we further constrained with the C32 implementation guide. This year, the Consolidated CDA initiative...
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The Blue Button Initiative has been touted as a powerful way for veterans to download a summary of their health records from their My HealtheVet account. Last August, President Obama announced this capability of the VA system, bringing national attention...
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Chilmark Research has not had a very good feeling about Google Health for well over a year now. Back in early May of this year we felt that Google had all put given up and had put Google Health in stasis. Today, Google made it official, Google Health has a little more than six months to [...]
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Ok we had no doubt Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston would pass as Dr. Halamka sets the pace for the rest of us and their self developed system has been around longer than many EHR vendors for that matter . Dr. Halamka is the CIO for the hospital in case you may have missed any previous...
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I hope we have 2 individuals with some brass tactics experience with Health IT here. The responsibilities for both positions has changed so much in getting reliable systems and data in place for the agencies to function. Without some first hand Health IT knowledge I’m afraid of what the ending...
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Thu, Mar 5 2009
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Why, they are anticipating running out of room for data, receiving terabytes every day, that’s a lot of data. Again, we really need the “smart” people at the top of the line in all entities of government now. Department of Health and Human Services inadvertently released Social Security numbers...
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Mon, Mar 2 2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Medical Records, Health IT, HL7, Personal Health Records, Social Security, integration, Heatlhcare, Standards, Budget, interchange, Senate Hearings, CCR, Cobol
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Dr. Halamka does a pretty good job on spelling out the “wish” list here, as he serves on the committees and has “first hand” knowledge. I would like to go one step further here and hope that the new secretary of HHS knows what all of this is about, in other words, knows what SNOMED is and represents...
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Sat, Feb 21 2009
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In part he speaks out about the Minute Clinics not yet paying their way, but they are committed to the long run, believing the clinics will in time contribute to the bottom line. This is an interesting history with the history of CVS and how their current CEO worked his way up to the top of the...
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Sun, Feb 15 2009
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As you may or may not be aware, all of the Minute Clinics found in the CVS stores already use an electronic medical records program. With their system, the chart information can also be shared with Google Health and the HealthVault. Cleveland Clinic is now going to integrate further with...
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Fri, Feb 13 2009
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Good article from Peter Neupert of Microsoft who testified in front of the Senate last week and the one sentence that grabs it all is this: “Smart people, armed with software, can do incredible things with data in any format – so long as they can get to it.” That’s right, let some of us smart...
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Sat, Jan 24 2009
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If you haven’t seen the broadcast today from the Senate and are interested, as almost everyone is these days in electronic medical records and healthcare, take a look and listen to what some of the guests are saying to the committee. It will give you an idea of where we are and some of the questions...
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Fri, Jan 16 2009
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