I learned about this at the CCR workshop. The CCR accomodates elements of this, but CMS has not endorsed it yet as a standard.

AMCP.org - Comments on Standard SIG - The NCPDP was working on the standard for Med Sigs - a little background

• Emerging Technology | Computers | DISCOVER Magazine - Article on Valdis Krebs’ social networking mapping tool
• orgnet.com - Social network analysis software & services for organizations, communities, and their consultants - This came up today, a reminder of past explorations
• Regional Health Education Online Learning - The Permanente Medical Group - Online, freely available training around patient self-management, provided by the Kaiser Permanente Community benefit. I took a look at the video on chronic conditions. I think this is a good direction in terms of training. I think there are also opportunities, though, to better demonstrate patient-centered care in this medium, including use of the electronic health record (I’m supposed to think that, it’s what I do, after all).
• Portrait Professional - amazing photo enhancer - Could this be the next Internet maps craze?
• Rite Aid adds clinics in Washington, Baltimore - Washington Business Journal: - Rite Aid adds clinics in Washington, Baltimore, working with Medstar Health

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

December 13th through December 14th:

• The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation: Why a dose of IT May be…. - Another discussion of suggested direction for Health Care IT, and where Interoperability fits
• Neil Calman MD: HIT before HIE (and not without my knowing what?s out there about ME) - A blog post that I have read and referenced a few times about HIT and HIE.
• Medicare Spending, The Physician Workforce, and Beneficiarie’ Quality of Care - Impact of physician workforce mix on Medicare beneficiaries’ care.
• The Atlantic Monthly: Overdose - Argument that the physician shortage is really a glut, of specialists
• Vote on Mass. retail medical clinics delayed again - The Boston Globe - MinuteClinics coming to Massachussetts. Reference to data around standardized sore throat care.
• NPR : Washington, D.C. Facing HIV/AIDS Epidemic - Information about HIV/AIDS in Washington, DC