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…
Category: Health Information Technology
A Web Services based Electronic Health Record, OnCall, from the Laboratory of Computer Science
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…
Breakthrough
Apple’s newest advertisement. It’s sort of a metaphor for health care, if you watch closely….
The PCHIT Blog is Moving!
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…
“Do you have time to show Ted our personal health record system?” – The system of patient and family centeredness at Medical College of Georgia
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…
“There’s Always Something to Do Better” – Medical College of Georgia, home of patient and family centered care
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:…
“In a couple weeks, you’ll be able to see this, too” – Ending where I began, at Institute for Family Health
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…
At the Home of Patient and Family Centered Care
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…
Live! from Staten Island – Innovation in patient-centered care
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,…
“A Process, Not a Souvenier” – Sharing After Visit Summaries with DC Primary Care Association
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…
What does giving patients access to their health records have to do with safety?
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,…
Congratulations, Institute for Family Health!
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…
A mini-tour of MiVia
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…
“Because Everyone Wants to Belong” – MiVia, a community’s personal health record system
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…
A Medical Home enabled by technology in Sonoma, California
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…
Sharp HealthCare – Getting Ready for the Future in San Diego
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…
Health2.0 Wrapup
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…
“What about one to many or many to many?” at Health 2.0
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…
We Want it; We Don’t Want it; and Google
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…
“Our patients, not my patients” – UNITE HERE Health Center, New York City
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…
A few more hoshin kanri tools; Common Examples of HIT Failure; Infamous Chartjunk
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…
PCHIT Personas: Special Report
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…
PCHIT Personas: Vulnerable Population
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…
A Different Kind of Patient Access to HIT at Queens Health Network
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…
New York’s Primary Care Information Project – Moving Ahead
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,…
We did it! Thanks Affinity Health Plan and Urban Health Plan!
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…
Access Thermometers: Latest Internet & Cell Phone Use Data
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…
Burger King Internet Kiosks, New York City
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…
“Take this with you and show it to your significant other” – A Conversation with Sal Volpe, MD
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…
PCHIT Personas: Health Plan
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…