Many people are sitting their on the proverbial fence waiting to see what’s going to happen with the HITECH act and meaningful use before they actually...
Archive - November 2009
Everyone seems to love talking about RHIO, HIE and all of the other various initiatives happening around sharing patient health information amongst doctors...
I always think it’s fun to think back on the last 5 or so years doing this blog. When I first started there was a lot of excitement about HIT blogging...
You know you’re a true blogger when you write a post for a holiday like Thanksgiving. Luckily, blog software is so good these days that I wrote this well...
A little while back I read an interesting EMR success story using the open source EMR appropriately named OpenEMR. The story is by Joe Holzer and I got his...
I’ll admit beforehand that I’m a member of the Fred Trotter fan club. He’s a little bit psycho when it comes to open source licensing and the...
The VA announced about 4-5 years ago that they would be releasing their Vista EMR as an open source package. Of course, the headline read “Government...
I previously did a post about some of the problems with Vista-FM. I considered that it was different than Vista, but wasn’t sure completely. The beauty...
“”Meaningful Use” should be linked to those two things (cutting costs and better care).” -Russ Reese in the comments. The above...
Few hospital executives get involved directly in politics, but it's high time that they did.