PCHIT links for January 11th through January 13th:

• Racial Disparities in cancer therapy among (FFS) Medicare Beneficiaries - I think this is really “Racial Disparities …among Fee For Service Medicare Beneficiaries,” since HMO enrollment was excluded from the study. The data are concerning regardless, and raise the question of PCHIT in enhancing access to information in making

AHRQ-Funded Projects: Using an Electronic Personal Health Record to Empower Patients with Hypertension - Innovative grant to Medical College of Georgia to develop a PHR on the Cerner Platform

• The Big Opt Out » About the campaign - A campaign led by patients to opt out of NHS data sharing (UK)
• Kaiser Permanente EHR System Facts - KP HealthConnect Electronic Health Record Project - As the title says, a handy public status update of the KP HealthConnect Project
• Medical Care - Abstract: Volume 45(12) December 2007 p 1205-1209 Behind-the-Scenes of Patient-Centered Care: Content Analysis of Electronic Messaging Among Primary Care Clinic Providers and Staff. - Impressive: 47.8% of all messages between providers and staff dealt with the act of communicating and informing staff of attempts or achievements of acts of communication.
• SpringerLink - Journal Article - See the review on the pchit.org blog
• The Diabetes Patient Portal: Patient Perspectives on Structure and Delivery — Hess et al. 19 (2): 106 — Diabetes Spectrum - Early focus group testing from UPMC’s patient portal. Patients understand efficiency gains to the system and wonder why they should pay more, therefore.

I love this new ad, because it’s a bit of a metaphor for generational change and innovation within organizations. Sometimes it feels that innovators are moving at 10 times the pace of the normal beat of things. The joy of creating change is to present the face that is going at the same beat or just slightly faster, so others can join in.

Also, on the eve of MacWorld, I dug out one of my favorite quotes, from 2006:

“We have a lot of health-care customers and maybe 1 percent of a company’s research department is on Macs but they have 99 percent of the influence.” - Jim Murphy, practice manager for Strategic Computer Solutions, a Syracuse, N.Y.-based IBM partner.

Original source for the ad can be found here.