Archive for March, 2009

Walgreen’s Giving Free Medical Care to Jobless and Uninsured

Posted by admin 2 Commented March 31 2009

Under: General, On My Mind

Walgreen’s to provide free medical care to the jobless and uninsured through its Take Care clinics around the country.

HIT Trends – Clinical Groupware

Posted by admin No Commented March 31 2009

Under: Healthcare IT

Dawning of the age of Clinical Groupware.

Charter Communications Bankruptcy

Posted by admin No Commented March 31 2009

Under: On My Mind

Charter Communications files Chapter 11 . . . finally.

Health Care IT and SOA – Lessons From Amazon

Posted by admin No Commented March 30 2009

Under: Healthcare IT

Moving toward meaningful exchange of health care information and interoperability.

Expansion of EMRmatch – Indpendent EMR Consultants

Posted by admin No Commented March 19 2009

Under: Healthcare IT

EMRmatch™, the only comprehensive and 100% objective EMR evaluation and selection tool will now include EMRintegrator™, a roster of local, regional and national EMR consultants who can help you implement and integrate your EMR solution. For more information about EMRmatch™, go here.

CCHIT Truly Independent?

Posted by admin 3 Commented March 9 2009

Under: Healthcare IT

Is CCHIT too conflicted to do a proper job of certifying EMR vendor offerings?  Should CCHIT revise is certification fees (lower fees for all vendors, adopt scaled fees tied to trailing-year vendor revenue, etc.), thereby leveling the playing field for EMR vendors?  Is all of this discussion moot because CCHIT is now irrelevant (ONCHIT and NIST will take the lead to develop HIT infrastructure and EMR certification standards)?

HIT/EHR Canada – Lessons for the United States

Posted by admin No Commented March 6 2009

Under: Healthcare IT

What can we learn from Canada about EMR/EHR adoption in the United States?

Yes, Google Is Getting Too Big For Its Britches – Case In Point: Google Health

Posted by admin 2 Commented March 5 2009

Under: On My Mind

The question, “Has Google gotten too big for its britches?” is no longer relevant. Fact is, Google has gotten too big for its britches. The relevant question now is, what do we do about it?