Category: Press

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Pioneering Ideas (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), April 2, 2009 — Steve Downs
Up on the Project HealthDesign blog, Lygeia Ricciardi calls attention to Ken Mandl and Zak Kohane’s perspective article in the New England Journal on the need for a flexible information infrastructure in health care.  In the article,…
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Technology Review (MIT), March 30, 2009 — Emily Singer
Thanks to the $19 billion designated for health-care information technology in the recent stimulus bill, electronic health records (EHRs) have garnered a great deal of attention in the past few weeks. The bill sets aside $17 billion in…
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The New York Times, March 25, 2009 — Steve Lohr
Now that the federal government plans to spend $19 billion to spur the use of computerized patient records, the challenge of adopting the technology widely and wisely is becoming increasingly apparent. Two articles, to be published on Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, point…
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