I hope that the general public, while rooting for the people of NYC, understand that their own fate depends upon them maintaining social distance, washing their hands, and obeying the advice of public officials.
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A Health IT Soothsayer
One of the best parts about predicting the future is how rarely the soothsayer is held accountable. The famous Michel de Nostredame, better known as Nostradamus, is popularly credited with predicting the rise of Hitler …
Continue readingEMRs: Are We There Yet?
Despite the evolution and investment in EMRs over the past five decades, little evidence exists that all this digitization is making a difference in quality, safety, or cost.
Continue readingHow Tinkering with the ACA Puts Health IT Investments at Risk
On February 27, 2017, President Trump said, ”Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated.” Well, Mr. President it is complicated and yes, we all knew.
Continue readingWhy Reform Legislation Won’t Solve Healthcare’s Ills
To best understand the failures of the bill, it is important to understand its shifting of incentives that were modified by ACA.
Continue readingIt’s Time to Stop and Refocus EHR Efforts
Healthcare’s uniqueness stems from its personal and emotional characteristics, and deep ties to our sense of humanity.
Continue readingRepeal and Replace: It’s Complicated
This past February, the President announced that the delivery of healthcare to America’s 300 million residents embraced more complexity than he previously realized. Only a few days before, at the annual HIMSS conference in Orlando, …
Continue readingWhy the Pressure’s Rising for EMRs to Make and Impact
To understand our struggle to obtain value from EMRs, it is important to “show you the money.”
Continue readingReconsider Documentation Vision for EHRs
“Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.’ or roughly translated as ‘I have done it longer because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.”
Continue readingPersonal Grid Facilitates Delivery of Complete Records
For more than a decade William Yasnoff, MD, advocated the use of a centralized model for storage of medical records in a health record bank.
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