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Cool Technology of the Week by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Cool Technology of the WeekWe've all used Google products - Search, Gmail, Blogger, You Tube, Docs, and Analytics. Along the way, we've provided information about ourselves ... Read on »

The November HIT Standards Committee Meeting by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The two major agenda items of the November HIT Standards Committee were the lessons learned from the Implementation Workgroup activities and security testimony from multiple i ... Read on »

Guiding Principles for the HIT Standards Committee by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In the past few weeks, the HIT Standards Committee has gathered a significant amount of written and in person testimony from standards stakeholders. We've run the FACA blog ... Read on »

An Open Access Scheduling Model for Management by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Wouldn't it be great if we could solve today's problems today?Every day I receive over 1000 emails. A small number of those emails are complex problems that require multi-st ... Read on »

CatDog by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy When my daughter was growing up, she watched a program called CatDog about the seamless integration of the two animals. "Their" life required constant communicatio ... Read on »

Cool Technology of the Week by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Recently, Harvard Medical School implemented a secure password reset architecture that is my cool technology of the week.Forgotten password processes typically work by asking ... Read on »

The China Study by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy As readers of my blog know I'm a vegan, a locovore, and grow my own vegetables organically. I avoid caffeine and exercise by climbing, cycling, hiking, kayaking, and skiing ... Read on »

The Magic of Middleware by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy As I mentioned in my blog about Certification verses Meaningful Use, there will be 9 data exchanges required in 2011ePrescribingSending reminders to patientsChecking insurance ... Read on »

The Genius of the AND by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Recently in Washington, an important political figure asked me why I had the reputation of resisting change.Since I've spent my life catalyzing change and embracing the latest ... Read on »

Certification Verses Meaningful Use by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Recently, clinicians have asked me "why should I implement my organization's preferred EHR when I've found a less expensive vendor that promises meaningful use?"This ... Read on »

Cool Technology of the Week by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy On November 4, I met with my director of IS at Needham hospital and we discussed the effort involved in creating a lab ordering/resulting dictionary that links together clinic ... Read on »

The H1N1 and Seasonal Flu Vaccines by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy On Monday, I received the 2009 Live Attenuated Intranasal (LAIV) H1N1 vaccine and the 2009 injectable seasonal flu vaccine. As a healthy clinician under 50 who sees pediatri ... Read on »

Standards Lessons from the Web by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Following last week's HIT Standards Committee Implementation Workgroup Hearing, Microsoft's Sean Nolan and Gartner's Wes Rishel wrote thoughtful blogs. They point out that th ... Read on »

The FY10 BIDMC IS Operating Plan by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I've previously posted the Draft Clinical Systems Operating Plan for BIDMC Information Systems.Today, I've posted the entire FY10 BIDMC IS Operating plan for infrastructure, c ... Read on »

Next Steps for our Community Quality Registry by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I've previously described the Beth Israel Deaconess Physician Organization's (BIDPO) decision to create a community registry for quality data warehousing in support of meaning ... Read on »

The Implementation Workgroup Testimony by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Yesterday I spent the day in Washington with the HIT Standards Committee's Implementation Workgroup. The online forum to comment about standards adoption and implementation ... Read on »

That 70's Show by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy My parents recently remodeled their 1970's home, removing the formica, shag carpeting, and textured ceilings.Seeing their modern home made me reflect on my personal history in ... Read on »

Implementation and Adoption Hearings by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Tomorrow from 9am to 4pm at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC, the Implementation Workgroup of the HIT Standards Committee will hold hearings to identify enablers and b ... Read on »

"Project" and "Product" Certification by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Last Friday night I testified to the President's Council on Science and Technology (PCAST). Many issues were discussed, but one of the most interesting was the idea of " ... Read on »

Accelerating Implementation of Laboratory Standards by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy On October 20, the Information Exchange Workgroup of the HIT Policy Committee heard testimony from laboratory information exchange experts and stakeholders.The agenda and test ... Read on »

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