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April 16, 2009 | John Halamka
I've recently written about Wal-mart's effort to reduce the cost of EHR acquisition. Many folks have asked for more details about how the product will be promoted and sold. Here's the... More
February 02, 2010 | John Halamka
John Halamka, MD, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center in Boston, asked his students at Harvard School of Public Health to develop these lists of barriers to EHR implementation within their... More
February 10, 2010 | Chris Thorman | Electronic Health Records
Last week, during the fever pitch surrounding the announcement of Apple’s iPad tablet, Software Advice surveyed 178 physicians, nurses, medical students and healthcare IT professionals about what the... More
October 05, 2010 | Patty Enrado | Electronic Health Records
October 4th was the first day of the National REC and HIE Summit West. I attended the preconference symposium on "Meaningful Use - What It Is and How To Qualify." What impressed me about... More
October 22, 2010 | John Halamka | Electronic Health Records, Mobile/Wireless, Quality and Safety
Last week, I met with Patientsafe Solutions, a San Diego-based startup founded by serial entrepreneur James Sweeney. Their idea is simple - leverage the iPod Touch 4G form factor and the iOS 4 SDK to... More
January 10, 2011 | Rob Harding | Electronic Health Records, ICD-10, Quality and Safety
On the surface, proving “meaningful use” (MU) of an electronic health record (EHR), at least the bare minimum required to receive federal funding in 2011, doesn’t appear to be overly complicated.... More
December 14, 2011 | Joseph C. Kvedar | Mobile/Wireless
The idea of disruptive innovations really resonates with me and provides a powerful framework for understanding how innovations are adopted (or not) by various businesses. More
June 25, 2012 | EJ Fechenda | Workforce Management
“Question of the day: With 20+ years of nursing experience & my HIT certification, why is it still so hard to break into the field?” This question was posed by one of the followers of HIMSS... More
January 12, 2009 | David Kibbe | Electronic Health Records, Network Infrastructure
On Dec. 19, we published an Open Letter to the Obama Health Team, cautioning the incoming Administration against limiting its Health Information Technology (IT) investments to Electronic Health... More
January 12, 2009 | Brian Klepper | Electronic Health Records, Network Infrastructure
On Dec. 19, we published an Open Letter to the Obama Health Team, cautioning the incoming Administration against limiting its Health Information Technology (IT) investments to Electronic Health... More
