I received this insert in the mail recently. No better time like the present than to start blogging. It’s from The Department of Health Policy News, which is described as follows:

The Department of Health Policy at Jefferson Medical College is committed to conducting research and education programs that will contribute to the quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness of health care. The Department’s activities are meant to inform decisions made by government policy makers, providers, payers, and other health system stakeholders about how best to deliver and finance care in order to improve the health of the public.

I support blogging by health system leaders to support a conversation with the people we serve. Of course I subscribed to the RSS feed.

PCHIT links for January 14th through January 29th:

• FreeMD? Your Virtual Doctor - A guided diagnostic tool for patients. There is limited record keeping that comes with this.
• California Could Be Health IT Model, Medicare Official Says - iHealthBeat - PHRs, they haven’t arrived.
• New York Insurers Launch Pilot To Test Medical Home Model - iHealthBeat - PHRs, have they arrived?

January 16th through January 29th:

• Operator of Walk-In Clinics Shuts 23 Located in Wal-Mart Stores - New York Times - Does this mean that traditional health care delivery systems will begin to explore partnerships in retail?
• Partnering with Your Doctor for Better Healthcare - DrGreene.com - Another discussion of the Dr. Haig article by Dr. Greene.
• Report Brief - Institute of Medicine - National Clinical Effectiveness - The IOM proposes a national clinical effectiveness assessment program. It would be wonderful if this was produced in tandem with standardized decision support for EHR AND PHR systems
• Johns Hopkins Informatics Seminars - A nice collection of presentations from leading edge speakers
• IndustryWeek : How To Practice Hoshin Kanri - Information about Pascal Dennis’ work - very useful