This was probably the most unique State of the Union message that I have heard and nice to hear all of the technology mentioned including healthcare too. As I watch the camera span the members it was interesting to watch faces and reactions and one in particular I caught was Grassley with a confused...
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I have posted on this topic a few times but the White House has released a video that gives a quick over view and man Vets have ben able to retrieve their information to keep or choose to share with their doctors. If you are a private practice doctor seeing a Veteran, it’s worth mentioning in case...
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The point of the personal health records is to benefit the patient and the prime example he points to here are those with cancer or chronic diseases. Dr. David Brailer also talks about the slow process of getting their records together without a PHR. As a reminder I have a full section...
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Here’s a quote from the press release that says it all and the big decisions these days for CIOs are how many of these do we need and how many can we afford? There are tons of audit services out there like this and the software does what it says it will do, but expect soon a new layer that will...
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Thu, Sep 30 2010
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I think as well as with the government we have seen a “madness” when it comes to Health IT, it sure feels that way as I post all of that type of information on this blog and I would venture to say that if I am having issues keeping up on general news here that the overall study and implementation is...
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Thu, Aug 19 2010
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This is a continuation of the first announcement where the White House put a “hold” on certain projects. I am guessing too that much of this will revolve around the financial side of IT. Transactional analysis in healthcare certainly needs an overhaul as we all pay big time. Insurers...
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What is really worth reading here are the comments under the area of “ culture shock” with Microsoft talking about how long a project stays in the works, no more than2 to 2/2 years and this was a shock to government workers as they have had long slow drag outs for implementing new applications and software...
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A couple weeks ago the White House was going to begin looking at “risky” IT projects and the VA was first up on the list and here’s the results. I have often said both in the government and especially in the private sector of business that we have a “glut” of analysis and financial software and...
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