May 15th through May 18th:

• CCR Product Compatibility List — AAFP Center for Health Information Technology - Adoption list of CCR - not up to date, but gives a glimpse of who has been involved.
• Montana Healthshare - Montana organization to use CCR to improve population health
• Solventus CEND/PHR - A reference implementation of a PHR using CCD, developed by Stephen Waldren, MD and David Kibbe, MD
• PDF Healthcare - A technology platform for enclosing historical documents - can contain a CCR
• SourceForge.net: CCR Acceleration Resources Project - The XSLT transofrm from XML -> HTML for CCR
• www.ccrstandard.com - Continuity of Care Record (CCR)Standard — Resource Site _uacct = “UA-2242673-1″; urchinTracker(); - Home base for CCR
• “I hope that some day you get your wish” - "Medicine has a 100% failure rate" - a discussion of physicians in information technology.
• The WETA Guide to Fine Dining | WETA TV 26 - A nice series on DC treasures
• The Health Care Blog: PODCAST/CONSUMERS/TECH: Interview with Joseph Kvedar, Partners’ Connected Health guru - Information about ConnectedHealth and the EMC pilot they are doing

• Topics - e-Visits @ TransforMED - Transforming Medical Practices - Article on whether the tipping point has been reached for e-visits
• WordPress Plugin: SIMILE Timeline at freshlabs journal - Nice visualization tool
• Doctor-Patient ‘Web Visits’ Spur Privacy Concerns : NPR - Should the American Medical Association always present the contrarian view around patient access? I don’t agree with the implication that cell phone / telephone is “most secure.” Anyone who has been in an airport recently would probably agree.
• WSJ.com/Harris Interactive Study Asks: Are There Fair and Reliable Ways to Assess Healthcare Quality? - Patients are saying that having an EHR is a “fair” assessment of quality
• Expansion of CCHIT Certification for 2009 (PDF Presentation) - Overview of CCHIT’s work to date and future strategy. Disclaimer: I am on the Foundations Workgroup
• Meet the Press — Robert Scoble — The Blogosphere | Fast Company - How Tim Ferriss used the blogosphere to his advantage
• News - Diversity gap found among state’s doctors - sacbee.com - “Not just a civil rights issue, a public health issue”
• YouTube - Microsoft Surface Parody - Why not use the device the size of a small car? The peril and promise of on demand video in shaping your message.

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

• Online health sites | Salon Life : Is there a doctor in the mouse? - A rebuttal to Dr. Scott Haig’s article that brought me to NPR in December. I think our profession’s leaders are at our best when we react by innovating. From that perspective, I’m not sure I agree with the tone or approach of the Salon piece. If we don’t like what we see in others, let’s create the type of system that we think is better and promote that.
• State OKs clinics in stores- MassLive.com -
• D.C. Council votes to regulate pharmaceutical reps - Washington Business Journal: - Sweeping regulation of pharmaceutical reps, right in our back yard.

December 16th through December 18th:

• Edelman Trust Barometer - a “person like me” is more trusted than a physician
• Groundswell (Incorporating Charlene Li’s Blog): Blogging policy examples - Examples of organizational blog policies
• Managing Health Online Discussed on NPR?s ‘Talk of the Nation’ | Kaiser Permanente News Center - KPNewsCenter coverage of NPR Talk of the Nation, December 13, 2007
• St. Louis-Based Company Attracts Gen. Y Grads — and Used Car Customers - George?s Employment Blawg: St. Louis labor & employment lawyer looks at HR, labor law, and today?s workplace - Example of a company that is catering to GenY - Enterprise rent-a-car
• Secretary Mike Leavitt’s Blog: Electronic Medical Records and the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate - The Administration proposes a requirement of EHR’s at the same time the SGR is fixed. The comments on this post are worth a read as well.
• Permanente Journal - Summer 2006 - Special Issue - Sidney Garfield Centennial, one of the fore-parents of health informatics