This lack of interoperability leads to incorrect diagnoses, ineffective therapeutic plans, and unnecessary and costly duplicate testing.
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Category: Healthcare IT
Living and Working in Two Worlds
“It’s human nature to initially place “new” technologies into old behaviors since we have no other frame of reference.”
Continue readingStrategic Operational Plans
Standing up in a canoe is hard enough. Standing up in two canoes with one foot in each while traveling through Class 4 rapids is mind-boggling. Class 4 rapids are defined as “intense, powerful but …
Continue readingStill Babbling
The problem of poor interoperability did not suddenly appear in the hot Washington summer of 2014. It has existed for several years; I called it out in an article published in this journal at the end of 2013.
Continue readingRailroads, Weed and EMRs
In the early 1970s, Larry Weed, MD further developed his structured documentation approach and described the problem-oriented medical record (POMR).
Continue readingOur Tower of Babel
Although this explains well why communication is so difficult among people from different countries, it fails to address the inability of our various healthcare information technology (HIT) systems to exchange patient data seamlessly.
Continue readingEvolving to Health 3.0
Organizations that will survive under the new realities of ACA recognize the power of healthcare information technology (HIT) to assist them in reworking their business processes and clinical workflows to achieve the goal of high quality, affordable care.
Continue readingSuper-Organism Focused Healthcare
Only recently have researchers viewed the human body as a super-organism, influenced as much by the genetics of the host as by the permanent bacterial residents.
Continue readingPrint Me a Pill
3D printing offers the opportunity to print pharmaceuticals specifically produced to meet the needs of individual patients.
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