When Congress promised physicians and hospitals last year billions of dollars in incentive payments if they adopted electronic health record (EHR) systems, it attached some proverbial strings called “meaningful use.”
When Congress promised physicians and hospitals last year billions of dollars in incentive payments if they adopted electronic health record (EHR) systems, it attached some proverbial strings called “meaningful use.”
Perhaps the tile of this post should really be titled “The cost of making diamonds from coal.” It’s rare that I will comment on another HDSer’s blog but my colleague Pete Gerr’s blog on Storage for the 31st Century got me thinking.
I have been asking a few folks what they think of the prospects for Apple recently release iPad in today’s Healthcare environments? Well most smile, a few chuckle but only for a minute and then they get a bit serious “You know Bill, You May Be on To Something”, They say. Perhaps they are just too polite to say they think I may be “On Something”.
The next time you visit your physicians office you may leave with more than just a referral slip. Intel along with selected partners has begun rolling out branded versions of its Health Guide technology in the United Stated and Europe.
Yawn!!!!
Yes I know the title is ever so dry but the topic is front and center as to what will be driving the care we receive over the next 50 years, even the smallest Healthcare environments are generating petabytes of information on each of us each year and what good are we getting from all of this data. How the heck do we manage it, support it and derive value from it. I have been cheating towards this ever important if ultra geeky topic for some time now so what sent me overt the edge, well it was getting a gander at the most recent data from the Kaiser Family Foundation on the massive amount of time kids in particular spend interacting with media in general or was it just a regular Saturday morning at the Burns house I can’t really tell.
Remember that Wii balance board that is collecting dust under your sofa, well you might just want to start digging around for it again. In a article I first saw on the “The Healthcare IT Guy’s Site” the Wii is being used for certain types of medical therapy.
Yes…..its been a few weeks since my last post. I totally shut it down over the holidays and enjoyed ample amounts of family time and even learning a few things in the process. My kids love the show “Mythbusters” and while skeptical at first I now believe these guys can debunk almost any myth and the one that is under my skin at the moment is Security vs. Standards.
With the vast majority of hospitals in the United States racing towards an initial Electronic Medical Record implementation or with the ones that have them looking to ensure they comply with the upcoming “meaningful use” requirements. Issues regrading information storage and mobility as beginning to take center stage.
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