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Larry Williams, Director, OEM Accident Aftercare at Roadside Telematics Corporation About 5 years ago, I co-chaired the CCHIT Personal Health Records Workgroup, where I met a gentleman named Larry Williams, who is/was affiliated with the auto industry. His work and passion raised many questions in our group, ranging from “what’s the auto industry doing in [...]
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This post is the follow-up to a tour of the Center for Total Health that I gave Howard Chiou (@medxanthro) who’s a MD-PhD student in medical anthropology at Emory University. Since Howard’s an anthropologist, he’s interested in the culture of health care systems and how we learn about them and make them better. One thing [...]
0commentsWay back in 2002, when I lived and worked in Washington, State, I heard about what I’d call a “quirky” little law known as California Health and Safety Code Section 123148, that did exactly as the title of this post reads. It made it illegal for a physician to deliver certain test results to their [...]
19commentsCalifornia 2011-12 Assembly Bill 2253 – Version 99 – Existing law authorizes the results of a clinical laboratory test performed at the request of a health care professional to be conveyed to the patient in electronic form if requested by the patient and if deemed most appropriate by the health care professional, except that existing [...]
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View ’2012 Kaiser Permanente Innovation Retreat 11757′ on Flickr.com The title of the post is real quote by Lynda Applegate, who is the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and serves as the Head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. She said it to us while sharing this famous quote Everything that can be [...]
5commentsGetting our staff to ask about Exercise was definitely a struggle in the beginning. Not because they didn’t think it was the right thing to do or because it was hard to document in our EHR, but because many of them were not exercising themselves. The quote above is from a series of blog posts [...]
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Photo credit MDGovpics Since I try to keep Photo Friday linked to Washington, DC, this week’s photograph is of Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, after testifying in favor of marriage equality, to end discrimination against LGBT residents in Maryland State. I chose this pose because it shows that this does not come easy, even to a governor. [...]