Category: News Etc

Government Health IT, April 27, 2010 — Brian Robinson
With all the talk about the politics of health reform, it’s easy to forget that a major driver of the landmark legislation will be the expanded use of health IT. The award in early April of four $15 million contracts seeking health IT research “breakthroughs” was a timely reminder of its importance…
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CIO, April 23, 2013 — Brian Eastwood
Making use of the petabytes of patient data that healthcare organizations possess requires extracting it from legacy systems, normalizing it and then building applications that can make sense of it. That’s a tall order, but the facilities that pull it off can learn a lot…
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The Health Care Blog, April 11, 2013 — Andy Oram
As the health care field inches toward adoption of the computer technologies that have streamlined other industries and made them more responsive to users, it has sought ways to digitize data and make it easier to consume. I recently talked to two organizations with different approaches to sharing data: the SMART platform and the Apigee corporation. Both focus on programming APIs and thus converge on a similar vision off health care’s future. But they respond to that vision in their own ways. Differences include…
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Clinical Innovation + Technology, April 8, 2013 — Laura Pedulli
Beware of the perils of data warehouses, Jon D’Amore, MS, founder of Clinfometrics advised an audience at the Medical Informatics World Conference on April 8.
Providers are still a long way off from meeting Stage 2 Meaningful Use (MU) that requires the achievement of advanced clinical processes and better population health management through EHR information capture and exchange, said co-speaker Dean Sittig, PhD, professor…
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Providence Business News, April 8, 2013 — Richard Asinof

Posted to smarthealthit.org with permission

One of the big missing pieces in the build out of the health IT infrastructure now underway as part of health care reform is the development of an underlying programming interface system that will allow for the creative introduction of downloadable apps, similar to what smart phone users can employ.

Dr. Kenneth D. Mandl, a physician and researcher in the Boston Children’s Hospital Informatics Program, where he directs the hospital’s Intelligent Health Laboratory, has been working with software developers to bridge that gap and create apps that allow interface with electronic health records (EHRs), both proprietary and open source.

Continue reading “Five Questions With: Dr. Kenneth D. Mandl”

Covering Health (Association of Health Care Journalists Blog), April 2, 2013 — Richard Asinof
Electronic health records are a tool, the bottom floor on creating standards to move from mere billing and data collection into a platform to change the way health care is delivered, the way it is paid for, and the manner in which patients are engaged, according to Farzad Mostashari, M.D., Sc.M., the national coordinator of health information technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services…

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KHI News Service, March 19, 2013 — Phil Cauthon
“The children of doctors should not be using better technologies in the third grade than the doctors are using in a hospital,” said Dr. Ken Mandl, co-director of the SMART project, speaking last week to a group of about 40 journalists at the Association of Health Care Journalists national conference…
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