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From the category archives:
This is a guest post by Louis Wenzlow, Director of Health Information Technology at the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative (RWHC). The RWHC is a cooperative of 35 rural hospitals (including 28 Critical Access Hospitals) that promotes regional collaboration for health and health care services on behalf of rural communities. The post below is commentary on [...]
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Last week I presented this slideshow to the National Rural Health Association at their annual conference in Miami. (Don’t even get me started on how beautiful the beach was there…) I’ve uploaded it to SlideShare as I’d like to see it spread around in rural and healthcare circles – hope you find it useful!
I’ll be [...]
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Nice article in Freep.com on Michigan doctors embracing electronic communications as tool in their delivery of care:
In a glimpse at how the practice of medicine is changing, Michigan’s doctor practices are adding electronic programs to cut telephone tag and unnecessary office visits for routine health questions, prescription refills, lab results and appointment requests.
Patients also can [...]
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David Kibbe describes an interesting idea today on The Health Care Blog, an EHR service that providers can subscribe to, and allow data sharing with the patients. A hybridized EHR+PHR, if you will. Here’s his description:
I call this Clinical Groupware. The term captures the basic notion that
he primary purpose for using these IT [...]
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Businessweek just posted an article about the fight shaping up over the rural broadband provisions in the new stimulus package:
Broadband Build-Out: Who Will Run the Show?
Congress is debating which agency should dispense the stimulus package’s $8.2 billion for broadband expansion. At issue: how best to serve rural areas
Well, it’s nice to be fought over, but [...]
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According to John Glaser in this post,
In about a month, it is highly likely that our industry (healthcare information technology) will be very different. In my almost thirty years in this industry, there has never been an industry change of the depth and breadth that we are about to experience.
Last week saw the introduction of [...]
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According to a new post in the Financial Times, California’s Silicon Valley is “sensing it’s opportunity” to lobby the Obama Administration for funding -
To hear [Silicon] Valley notables describe it, the answers to some of the biggest issues facing the US can be found there. These range from climate change and America’s lack of energy [...]
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Now here’s some great collaboration news – ESRI, the makers of ArcMap (the premier GIS mapping system employed today) have formed an alliance with the USGS, Census Bureau, NOAA, DHS, and DOI to create a “National GIS” (Geographic Information System). To quote their press release:
As America’s leaders work to speed economic recovery, they need a [...]
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While there was a lot of scrutiny and pressure in the selection of our diplomatic and economic pieces of the new administration, many of us were crossing our fingers for the eventual naming of the new FCC Chair.
Last night, the Wall Street Journal announced Barack Obama’s nominee for the post, Julius Genachowski. Genachowski has served [...]
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Guest post from Louis Wenzlow at the Rural WI Health Cooperative:
In discussing Open Source solutions for small hospitals, my focus is not on health information exchange but on hospital EMR implementation, which is where most small hospitals are concentrating their efforts. Two years ago, my group went through a multiple hospital EMR vendor selection process, [...]
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