- Health IT Pioneer Calls for Changes in Federal Health IT Strategy – iHealthBeat – More changes requested in federal involvement around Health IT
- JAY PARKINSON + MD + MPH on Carol – Jay says it isn’t going to work. I’m not sure it will either as I think about what Apple had to do to create the iPhone. I found the CEO’s ideas compelling. We should start with what’s best for those we serve and figure out a way to make it work.
- ChangeThis Newsletter: 42.05 Ideaicide: How To Avoid It And Get What You Want by Alan Parr and Karen Ansbaugh – I would call this a nice primer on “Nemawashi” – or conversations around the office to get ideas off the ground.
- A Food Fight Over Calorie Counts – Interested more in the approach to sharing information than the issue of calorie counts (per se) – that “consumer confusion” is used as the reason to not provide information.
- Chapter 70.02 RCW: Medical records ? health care information access and disclosure – Background information; Transparency Law in Washington State
- Forrester?s Top Health-IT Predictions for 2008 ? Digital Healthcare and Productivity – Clinical analytics, EHRs gain a greater toehold, RHIOs will take a little longer. My experience in the field seems to resonate.
- The Health 2.0 Blog: Carol aims to disrupt the health care market by Matthew Holt – There’s that “d” word again, in reference to Carol.com. Can they do it? If we think about creating patient-centered HIT systems, why wouldn’t we include cost information as part of the Information part of HIT?