Jonah Froelich, MPH, California Healthcare Foundation’s resident expert on health information technology sent this along to me and I wanted to post it. It shows the spirit of health professionals who are changing the way they practice because they want to perform better for their patients. Scenes like this are happening all over the United States. Thanks and congratulations to West County Health Centers and (again) to the Redwood Community Health Coalition for sharing their enthusiasm with patients everywhere.

• 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.

April 1st through April 2nd:

• Pattern Recognition » Blog Archive » I really hate Zotero - Like the concept, wants to improve the implementation
• Medical Home | Solution to Chronic Care Management? | Health Care | Disruptive Innovation for a New Primary Care Model | Center for Health Solutions - Deloitte LLP - Very nice overview of Medical Home, particularly with the rundown of stakeholders in the back, plus the medical home cost model.
• WordPress ? Support » Tags Import As Numbers, Not Words - Importing issues Wordpress
• Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008 ? Co-produced by TechWeb & O’Reilly Conferences, April 22 - 25, 2008, San Francisco, CA -
• Compare Accounts | YouSendIt - Store and forward service for the times when e-mail isn’t so efficient. I use XDrive.
• Convert Your Paper to iPaper | Scribd - An ambitious project to convert paper , no extra charge
• John Furrier Says Google?s CIO is Leaving for EMI - Interesting change of employer, could the same thing happen if a Google employee was recruited to run a health care organization?
• Twitter - A Teaching and Learning Tool | ICT in my Classroom - Nice discussion of the uses of Twitter in education
• VoiceThread - Group conversations around images, docs and videos - An interesting image, video, voice annotating service. What are the applicaitons in medical group training and patient involvement