Category: Press

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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Open Health News, March 14, 2013 — Edmund Billings
I want to begin by sharing well-known information for the sake of comparison. Both the Apple and Google Android platforms welcome the introduction of new and (sometimes) highly valuable functionality through plug-n-play applications built by completely different companies…
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MedCity News, March 5, 2013 — Stephanie Baum
The multitude of approaches to improve the exchange of patient data is a big trend at HIMSS 2013. One facet of the government’s drive towards achieving that is through the SMART project. Short for Substitutable Medical Apps and Reusable Technologies, it’s made up of a group…
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The Health Care Blog, February 15, 2013 — Edmund Billings
Anyone who understands the importance of continuity of care knows that health information exchange is essential. How are we supposed to cut waste and duplication from the healthcare system and truly focus on patient welfare if doctor B has no idea what tests doctor A conducted, or what the results were?…
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Family Health Guy, January 23, 2013 — Sean Nolan
My job at HealthVault is to be a pragmatist. If somebody has information they want to get into HealthVault, my #1 job is to get it there—no matter what format it’s in. That means we accept hand-entered data, scans, uploaded files, CDs and DVDS, Blue Button files, structured CCR and CCD documents, device formats, you name it….
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Vector, January 16, 2013 — Tom Ulrich
Vector has been deliberating about its predictions for 2013, consulting its many informants. Here’s where we’re putting our money this year; if you have other ideas, scroll to the bottom and let us know.
Genome sequencing scaling up at health care institutions
Last year we predicted genome sequencing’s entry into the clinic; this could be the year it goes viral….
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