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Healthcare Un-Interoperability

Posted on November 7, 2007 by Bob

Or maybe that should be “non-interoperability”? Anyway, I have ranted in the past about the state of the EMR industry. I thought I’d add a little meat to the bone so you could better appreciate the hurdles facing device interoperability … Continue reading →

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Health 2.0

Posted on October 22, 2007 by Bob

The Health 2.0 movement (also see here) is a comprehensive approach to many of the EMR/PHR topics I’ve discussed in the past. Scott Shreeve, MD (there are many good posts on his blog) proposes what he calls the “Triple-A of … Continue reading →

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Scoble interview: The Stanford IT doctor is in.

Posted on October 9, 2007 by Bob

Here’s an interesting interview with Dr. Christopher Longhurst from The Stanford IT doctor is in. The discussion of standards and interoperability is very good.

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Microsoft HealthVault

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Bob

Everybody is talking (WSJ-Health Blog, MedGadget, Health IT Guy, and many more) about the introduction of Microsoft HealthVault. This seems to be a step in the right direction for personally controller health records. The direct device interfaces are particularly interesting. … Continue reading →

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Microsoft and the Health Care IT Market

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Bob

Here’s a good read about Microsoft and the health care IT market: Vertical Markets: Prescription for Profit. Redmond Channel Partner Online is a magazine for the Microsoft partner community so the article is geared more towards third party opportunities. It … Continue reading →

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CardioDynamics Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for Innovative Clinical Parameters and Electronic Medical Record Compatibility

Posted on September 30, 2007 by Bob

CardioDynamics International Corporation (CDIC) Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for Innovative Clinical Parameters and Electronic Medical Record Compatibility. WooHoo! Congratulations to all of the CDIC R&D (including yours truly) and Quality teams for getting this done. Great job everyone!

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The EMR-Medical Devices Mess

Posted on September 22, 2007 by Bob

Tim Gee’s EMR Connectivity for Medical Devices Is a Mess post is right on target. I’ve also expressed my opinion (“total chaos”) on this, but as you’ll see I’m coming from a different perspective. The HealthLeaders Technology article primarily focuses … Continue reading →

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Personally Controlled Health Record

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Bob

Following my EMR-Facebook brainstorming post I ran across the IndivoHealth project (via WSJ-Health Blog). The announcement is that a consortium of large companies, Dossia, would be extending the Indivo open source core. Indivo has implemented the paradigm shift that I … Continue reading →

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A new model for EMR software: Facebook?

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Bob

There’s an article in the October The Atlantic Monthly entitled About Facebook (subscription required) by Michael Hirschorn. His contention is that Facebook is currently the site that “comes closest to fulfilling the promise of social media.” As I read though … Continue reading →

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Google, Microsoft, and Health

Posted on August 15, 2007 by Bob

I think the recent New York Time’s article entitled Google and Microsoft Look to Change Health Care missed the bigger picture. The article talks about other Internet companies (like WebMD), but it does not make any mention of the Federal … Continue reading →

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