Electronic medical records – you either love them or hate them. At least that’s been my observation. The more I write about EMR and talk to…
Archive | July, 2013
Should We Pause Meaningful Use?
There has been some discussion about whether it might be a good idea to delay stage 2 meaningful use for some providers. Sen. John Thune…
Analyzing the TweetStream: 7/22 – 7/26
Happy Monday all! Hope everyone had a wondrous weekend. In case you missed ‘em, here are @HealthStandards’ top 5 tweets from last week: #1 “Which…
Accountable Care is Healthcare’s New OS: Now What?
In my last post, I made the analogy that Accountable Care and value-based payment models are doing what Microsoft did in the 80s, creating a…
Accountable Care is Healthcare’s New OS
The 1st year report card on Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations is out. Depending on who you talk to, the story changes dramatically. As Gregg Masters…
Human Centered Design for New Models of Wellness and Innovation
A year ago, in July 2012, Business Innovation Factory (BIF) began a partnership with Children’s Medical Center in Dallas to find “new models of care”,…
Do You Have it Together? How Tech is Helping Educate About Advance Directives
July 2013 marks the four-year anniversary of Jose Hernado’s death. On July 17 in 2009, he kissed his wife Chanel Reynolds goodbye, left home on…
Analyzing the TweetStream: 7/8 – 7/12
Well gee, y’all, the social media crowd was really quite electric this past week. There were so many great things going on! Here are the…
An Unbound Future for Healthcare, a Matter of When
What is an Unbound Future? A New Platform for Healthcare I’ll be at Healthcare Unbound today and tomorrow. What does an “Unbound” future look like?…
Pilot Launched to Advance Patient Control Over Shared Medical Records
The University of Texas at Austin and Jericho Systems announced a national pilot program designed to explore advanced patient control over shared medical records. This…