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U.S. health data czar sees role for government hand

“It is clear that this field has not advanced (enough) … when left exclusively to the private sector so there is a public role,” said…

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Markle v. HIMSS: Differing Views of “Meaningful Use” and “Certification”

The forthcoming definition of the “meaningful use” of health information technology will set the direction of the Obama administration’s strategy for health IT adoption, said…

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Software companies back online health records privacy framework

With the dawn of new information-oriented and software services on the web, many Americans are interested in using web based tools for processing their personal…

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More on the Markle framework: Patti Brennan’s perspective

Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, is the Director of Project Health Design. She made the following comments in response to the Markle Foundation’s most recent…

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PHRs – beyond the standard design

Patti Brennan, a nursing colleague of long-standing, is National Program Director, and gave the closing keynote at the SINI2008 conference last week. I have provided…

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Practice Fusion and “Freeconomics”

Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, studies and writes about the human condition in the information age. The world that we inhabit today is evolving…

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Health Privacy: One Step Closer

So, the Massachusetts legislature wrapped up the FY07-FY08 session early Friday morning. The wonky-hot legislative item that AAC was watching was the Senate President’s Healthcare…

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What Healthcare Could Learn from Amazon

We take for granted that UPS will track and send an e-mail alert about a package’s delivery status. Or when Visa lets us know when…

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Health Information Technology: A Few Years Of Magical Thinking?

One of the biggest obstacles to expanding the use of information technology (IT) in health care may be the current narrow focus on how to…

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Reduce Focus on Standards To Increase IT Adoption, Article Says

Federal health IT efforts are too focused on standards and do not consider long-term medical outcome goals, according to an article published Tuesday on the…

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Health IT policy: the fur is flying

Some fur is flying in the rarefied world of health IT policy geeks this morning. Health Affairs has three articles. The first from Markle’s Carol…

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Policy Pundits Weigh In On HIT Adoption

The journal Health Affairs released yesterday three papers that address issues revolving around HIT adoption. Quick synopsis follows with my views in italics. The first,…