The Heritage Foundation, June 25, 2009 — Tevi Troy
Congress, through its enactment of the “stimulus” bill, is committed to spending $787 billion on various projects, including $20 billion to encourage doctors and hospitals to adopt electronic health records (EHRs). This new spending is a component of the Obama Administration’s health care agenda, which includes the promotion of health information technology (HIT)…
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Category: News Etc
Ensuring Investment in Healthcare Information Technology Does Not Flatline
The Huffington Post, June 25, 2009 — John Kenagy
Given the $47 billion awarded in stimulus funding, it’s clear the government’s assumption is that healthcare information technology (IT) will deliver better care at lower cost. The IT industry and all the healthcare IT mavens are waving the flags and beating the drums…
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Ten Principles for Fostering Development of an “iPhone-like” Platform for Healthcare Information Technology
Leading health care information technology researchers, physicians, and renowned experts in innovation released a set of core principles to guide the creation of a new health information infrastructure to better support the nation’s complex and evolving health system.
Transcript: Health Info Tech Coordinator David Blumenthal
The Wall Street Journal, June 15, 2009 — Bob Davis
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Dr. David Blumenthal spoke with The Wall Street Journal’s Bob Davis about how he plans to convince hospitals and doctors to computerize their records. Below is an edited transcript…
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Catalyzing the app store for EHRs
Pioneering Ideas (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), June 1, 2009 — Steve Downs and John Lumpkin
Recently, Steve posted about the idea, floated by Ken Mandl and Zak Kohane, that EHRs (or health IT more broadly) could move to a model of competitive, substitutable applications running off a platform that would provide secure medical record storage. In other words…
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Electronic Medicine, iPhones and Path-Dependence
Health Reform Watch, May 18, 2009 — Michael Ricciardelli
Atul Gawande writes about “path-dependence” in his wonderfully thought out article on the evolution of health care systems. If you haven’t yet read it (it’s in the sidebar under “Best of Magazines” and here) I highly recommend…
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Electronic Health Records Won’t Save Us
The Washington Post, April 26, 2009 — Tevi Troy
Are electronic health records the panacea for all our health-care ills? Congress seems to think so: With strong cheerleading from President Obama, it has approved $20 billion for EHRs as part of the stimulus package. Health information technology undeniably holds a lot of promise, but…
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A Health Tech Monopoly – II
The Wall Street Journal, April 14, 2009
The New England Journal of Medicine is the holy scripture of the medical academic left, so it’s worth noting that the magazine has just punched a hole in the many blandishments about electronic medical records…
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On the records
The Boston Globe, April 6, 2009 — Carolyn Johnson
In this wireless world, healthcare still has one foot in the digital dark ages. But the $19 billion investment in health information technology included in the federal stimulus package may change that, says Dr. Kenneth D. Mandl of …
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Advances in Online Care and Telehealth
The Health Care Blog, April 6, 2009 — David Kibbe
At a recent symposium on Online Care in Hawaii, two Family Physicians and a primary care Internist participated in a panel in which they described their experiences with Online Care and Telehealth…
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