Archive for December 12th, 2008
N C H S – Health E Stats – Preliminary Estimates of Electronic Medical Record Use by Office-based Physicians: United States, 2008
December 12th, 2008 | Popularity: 7% 0 comments | Leave a replyPhoto Friday: Scott and Holly embrace paper, sometimes
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This week’s photograph is of two Health 2.0 (and other numbers) leaders, Scott Shreeve, MD from Crossover Healthcare (on Twitter as scottshreeve), and Holly Potter, the Vice President of Public Relations, National Media and Stakeholder Management (on Twitter as htpotter) for Kaiser Permanente. The moment was our admiration of Holly’s planning system, which uses paper (as does mine), at this week’s The World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress, in Washington, DC.
Scott participated in the unveiling of CurrentHealth at WHIT, and Holly’s team unveiled kp.org/future, a site that integrates the work and vision of Kaiser Permanente’s technological transformation for its members.
Paper is a very empowering tool in the era of Health Information Technology, which is one of the reasons I took this photo. Businessweek cites the paper after visit summaries as part of the “cutting edge of health care.” I agree. That link and others about the after visit summary are here.
iHealthbeat, now on iPhone
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Sam Karp, Vice President of programs at the California Healthcare Foundation, wrote me yesterday to let me know that iHealthBeat is now available as a downloadable application for the iPhone, and of course I downloaded it immediately.
This is a quick and easy way to follow a required news source for anyone interested in health information technology. Plus, the entire archive is searchable, for those times that you ask if organization X is engaged in technology innovation, or what the latest data about adoption and use is. I might also add that the user interface reflects some of the elegance that Sam carries in his work. Give it a try and see what you think. It’s great to see our nation’s most innovative philanthropies embracing the technology tools that people use.
