Video: “Goin’ Live” – West County Health Centers, Sonoma, California
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…
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…
While at Massachusetts General Hospital last week, as a guest of The Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Improvement, I was invited to meet the team at the Laboratory…
Apple’s newest advertisement. It’s sort of a metaphor for health care, if you watch closely….
The PCHIT blog is moving to its new home at the Center for Information Therapy next week. We’ll post a link to the new blog here, and then…
Imagine that you are going to launch a new program, like patient access to their medical record online, and a visitor from another institution asks for a tour…
The quote in the post comes from Roslyn Marshall, RN, Nurse Manager of the 3West Inpatient (Neurology and Neurosurgery) unit at Medical College of Georgia, in Augusta. Images:…
It’s interesting that it worked out the way it did, but the last organization I am visiting on my PCHIT journey is the organization I started at, Institute…
In Augusta, Georgia, a national epicenter for Patient and Family Centered Care, as featured on “The Remaking of American Medicine.” It’s a really impressive place. I’ll be blogging…
When I found out that Sal Volpe, MD, Mat Kendall, and the PCIP team were going to be talking about their work in the community where Sal practices,…
The quote in the title is from Mark Snyder, MD, Associate Medical Director, Information Technology, Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, who once again, volunteered to demonstrate how Kaiser Permanente…
Patient Safety and the “Just Culture”: A Primer for Health Care Executives, Prepared by David Marx, JD, for Columbia University under a grant provided by the National Heart,…
New York Times Company : Press : Press Release : The New York Times Company Announces Ten Semifinalists for the Second Annual Nonprofit Excellence Awards The Institute for…
Yesterday, I wrote a post about my visit to Sonoma, California, and the health care that MiVia is enabling. Heidi Stovall then gave me a tour of the…
Imagine that you were working internationally and had a serious stomach ache and needed to see a doctor. When you went into the medical clinic, the doctor asked…
While in the Bay Area, I had the opportunity to visit with Jason Cunningham, DO, at the Sebastopol Community Health Center in Sonoma, California. The Sebastopol Community Health…
Our week in California was a very productive one, in addition to our time at the Health2.0 Conference, because we visited several innovative practices in San Diego and…
What can I say, it was a great conference with lots of energy. There’s a more just-in-time review of events on my own blog for people to take…
Josh and I are in San Diego this week for the Health 2.0 Conference, and to interact with innovative California health care organizations. I think we are two…
Legal and Policy Analysis: Personal Health Records: Why Many PHRs Threaten Privacy, World Privacy Forum 2008 Survey of Health Care Consumers, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions Actually we…
The quote is from Abigail Chen, MD, who I shadowed yesterday as I was shown UNITE HERE’s implementation of the Ambulatory ICU (you can read more about the…
iCal Reply Checker | John Maisey – A little tweak for my own CIO to work with exchange clients Five whys – Quick guide to using the Five…
Note: This post was previously published, but is being reposted today to tie together the special report, which is now published on this site in its entirety. To…
In many, if not all, of the sites we visited, the question of disparate access to PCHIT was raised. The same question has been raised with regard to…
As I mentioned in my previous post, I was beckoned to the borough Queens, NY, shortly after my presentation at the United Hospital Fund. Despite the snow, the…
As part of our visit last week, Josh and I made sure to stop in at New York City’s Primary Care Information Project. As today’s press release indicates,…
The expression of happiness in the title is a reflection of the milestone that this was in this journey. It was the first time that we went to…
We just love Susannah Fox’s thermometer analogy for Internet access. It’s no longer an on/off switch. Here are the latest ones, to assist understanding of access in various…
Josh spotted these and asked me to snap a photo or two. We noticed these at multiple Burger King restaurants in New York City. Yet another place for…
A little bit behind on blogging this week, and a little out of order because we’re back in New York City, working with some of the stars we…
The Library of Congress, General view of one of the classification yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC), January 1, 1940. Sites visited Individuals from…
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