Health IT’s Glue

May 27, 2010
Broken plastic pipe with glue tubes

The future of health IT over the next five years is in the development of these “glue” applications that allow the seamless linking of large, robust system, such as EMRs or laboratory applications, so that end users can utilize these tools in a coherent, patient-centric manner.

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We Need Privacy Now

August 12, 2009
Outdoor surveillance cameras

Today, patient information is actively being used to target market products and services to patients. Although the data firms utilize is de-identified, they employ reverse lookup utilities to reconstruct the information with patient identifiers.

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