- Chronic Disease Care Conference – Better Ideas in Action – California Healthcare Foundation's main conferences of the year, in San Francisco. Impressive lineup
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Archive for September 17th, 2008
Chronic Disease Care Conference – Better Ideas in Action
September 17th, 2008 | Popularity: 13% 0 comments | Leave a replyHealth Affairs Blog – Medical Homes — And Medical ‘Home Runs’?
September 17th, 2008 | Popularity: 8% 0 comments | Leave a reply- Health Affairs Blog – Medical Homes — And Medical ‘Home Runs’? – Commentary from Arnold Milstein. The suggestion is that to be successful, "personal zealotry" is still required, even with a modified reimbursement environment. How does this become "standard" instead of the exception?
Updated Physician’s Guide to CCHIT Certification
September 17th, 2008 | Popularity: 7% 0 comments | Leave a reply- Updated Physician’s Guide to CCHIT Certification – Guide from CCHIT to help purchasers of EHR systems understand certification.
Project HealthDesign Expo Washington, DC – It’s not the record, it’s what you do with it
September 17th, 2008 | Popularity: 31% 1 comment
I am at the Project HealthDesign Expo here in my hometown, along with many many other leaders in the personal health records world, including several members of the CCHIT Personal Health Records Workgroup.
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, is completing her opening remarks, and in them, she referred to the work of Douglas Engelbart. I have also been fascinated by his work and some time ago took the trouble to find videos of his demonstrations of the computer mouse and document editing on a computer in 1968. Pretty amazing.
Pictures below, click on any to see larger. I have been impressed by the amount of patient input provided in all of the work – a lot of things along the way demonstrate that these are different tools than we’ve seen previously to allow patients to be empowered in health and health care.
