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Strong standards or wiggle room?

Former President George W. Bush urged doctors and hospitals to go digital on their own, with a few booster shots of federal help. Consequently, progress…

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The Evidence for HIT

In February 2009, President Obama and the Congress launched a vast, ambitious program to improve the health of Americans, and the performance of their health…

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Markle gives sound advice on “Meaningful Use of Health IT” to policy makers (again)

The Markle Foundation has been giving some very reasonable advice on the use of IT and technology in general for the healthcare industry. Their most…

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New Study Rates Privacy Protections of Electronic Health Record Systems

I want to alert everybody to a study recently published by Patient Privacy Rights (PPR) that rates the various Personal Health Record (“PHR”) systems currently…

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What to make of the failed terrorist attack

The president has ordered two reviews since the attack attempted against Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day. While such reviews are necessary to understand…

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Another failure to communicate

Never again. That’s what Congress and the Bush administration promised seven years ago after revelations that the CIA didn’t warn the FBI about two of…

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Christmas Day Attack a Wake-Up Call for Obama

George W. Bush’s presidency was shocked early in its term by the unimagined terrorist act on September 11, 2001. Mr. Bush, who tended to lead…

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The Christmas Day Intelligence Failure – Part I: Enterprise Amnesia vs. Enterprise Intelligence

I have been watching the public statements from our leadership, media reports, the blogosphere, and emails galore related to the failed December 25th, 2009 terrorist…

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Connecting the Dots and the Christmas Plot

“We slipped up.”  That’s what Patrick F. Kennedy, the Undersecretary of State for Management, said at a Senate hearing last week about the Christmas day…

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Why information sharing is not always enough

Sounds of anger and signs of action are following the failed attempt to blow up a U.S. jetliner on Christmas Day. We are lucky it…

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Security expert: Obama order resembles controversial Bush-era data-mining tool

The Obama administration has called for the development of a computer network that one security expert said on Tuesday resembles a controversial system that President…

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Health IT Standards Committee: Clinical Operations group seeks specificity in standards

During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on…