I’d like to thank the HL7Standards.com community for the kind welcome yesterday. I’m happy to join the talented team here and I’m looking forward to…
Archive | August, 2011
Adding to the Team: Welcome, Chad Johnson!
Over the last year, the healthcare IT industry has seen tremendous growth: new business developments, new business opportunities, new students pursuing degrees in the field…
Useful Links from #HITsm Tweet Chat – August 26, 2011
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Why Are Millennials Vital to Health Care?
Before we dive in, it is important to ensure we understand some of the characteristics of the Millennial Generation. The timing of this generation is…
The Patient’s Role in Health Information Management
In our series to date, we have been exploring the need for unified patient information management (UPIM). We’ve discussed the role that different healthcare stakeholders,…
Docs and ACOs: Embrace Them or Not?
Recently two articles were published with seemingly contradictory information regarding the consensus opinion of doctors with respect to ACOs. The first article, Survey: Forming an…
The Role of Physicians in Driving Toward Unified Patient Information Management
In our series on unified patient information management, we first introduced this new integrated approach followed by a blog post on the central position health…
Would You Like a Personality With That?
When a group of medical students goes out on the town, I have often wondered how long it takes the average person to guess that…
The Role of Health Plans in Effective Patient Information Management
In our first blog post in this series on better patient information management, we covered the overarching benefits for adopting a unified approach to patient…
A View from the CLOUD: Building a Virtual Geography of Healthcare for the 21st Century
In the first of this guest series of posts, the chicken and the egg question was updated as a way to frame one of the…