My HIMSS agenda
After a couple of weeks of uncertainty, I now know I will be covering HIMSS for MedCity News. A lot of vendors and PR firms have of course pitched me for meetings, and the reality is, I’ve not always...
View ArticleHappy birthday, HITECH, and pre-HIMSS humor
Today is the fifth anniversary of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act being signed into law, which also means today is the fifth anniversary of the Health Information Technology for Economic and...
View ArticleAll my HIMSS coverage in one place
The last of my 10 MedCity News stories from HIMSS14 has been posted. It’s a nice mix of news, features, analysis and commentary. Here are links to all of them, in chronological order. NantHealth...
View ArticleeHealth Initiative ‘2020 Roadmap’ panel needs consumers
This press release showed up my inbox on Tuesday: eHealth Initiative Launches 2020 Roadmap Process Framework to Change the Future of Nation’s Healthcare System March 25, 2014, Washington, D.C. – The...
View ArticleAthenahealth-EHRA news significant only that it shakes up the status quo
By now, you’ve likely heard the news that Athenahealth has decided to quit the HIMSS EHR Association. As Athenahealth’s Dan Haley put it in a blog post: “At the end of the day, athenahealth left the...
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Still no consensus on digital/mobile/connected health
A while back — three months, to be exact — I asked readers if they had a preferred term to describe “the application of new, personalized technologies to healthcare.” I gave you the choice of digital...
View ArticleSome truths about health IT and innovation
This morning at the annual SAS Health Analytics Executive Conference in Cary, N.C., former national health IT coordinator Dr. Farzad Mostashari dubbed Dr. Eric Topol “the high priest of personalized...
View ArticlePodcast: Greenway Health CEO Tee Green on interoperability, consumerism and more
Health IT vendor Greenway Health recently finished its rollout of a cloud-based EHR to all 8,200 Walgreens stores in the U.S. When I was offered the chance to interview CEO Wyche T. “Tee” Green III...
View ArticlePodcast: Scot Silverstein talks health IT safety risks
In a sidebar to the September cover story I did for Healthcare IT News, I reviewed some of the work of Scot Silverstein, M.D., who has long been chronicling problems with EHRs and other health IT...
View ArticleJoin the discussion about wearable technology
The thing about the Internet is that you never know when something is going to go viral or spark heated debate. (Actually, it’s a fairly sure bet that anything involving politics, religion or sports...
View ArticleMy HIMSS agenda
After a couple of weeks of uncertainty, I now know I will be covering HIMSS for MedCity News. A lot of vendors and PR firms have of course pitched me for meetings, and the reality is, I’ve not always...
View ArticleHappy birthday, HITECH, and pre-HIMSS humor
Today is the fifth anniversary of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act being signed into law, which also means today is the fifth anniversary of the Health Information Technology for Economic and...
View ArticleAll my HIMSS coverage in one place
The last of my 10 MedCity News stories from HIMSS14 has been posted. It’s a nice mix of news, features, analysis and commentary. Here are links to all of them, in chronological order. NantHealth...
View ArticleeHealth Initiative ‘2020 Roadmap’ panel needs consumers
This press release showed up my inbox on Tuesday: eHealth Initiative Launches 2020 Roadmap Process Framework to Change the Future of Nation’s Healthcare System March 25, 2014, Washington, D.C. – The...
View ArticleAthenahealth-EHRA news significant only that it shakes up the status quo
By now, you’ve likely heard the news that Athenahealth has decided to quit the HIMSS EHR Association. As Athenahealth’s Dan Haley put it in a blog post: “At the end of the day, athenahealth left the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Still no consensus on digital/mobile/connected health
A while back — three months, to be exact — I asked readers if they had a preferred term to describe “the application of new, personalized technologies to healthcare.” I gave you the choice of digital...
View ArticleSome truths about health IT and innovation
This morning at the annual SAS Health Analytics Executive Conference in Cary, N.C., former national health IT coordinator Dr. Farzad Mostashari dubbed Dr. Eric Topol “the high priest of personalized...
View ArticlePodcast: Greenway Health CEO Tee Green on interoperability, consumerism and more
Health IT vendor Greenway Health recently finished its rollout of a cloud-based EHR to all 8,200 Walgreens stores in the U.S. When I was offered the chance to interview CEO Wyche T. “Tee” Green III...
View ArticlePodcast: Scot Silverstein talks health IT safety risks
In a sidebar to the September cover story I did for Healthcare IT News, I reviewed some of the work of Scot Silverstein, M.D., who has long been chronicling problems with EHRs and other health IT...
View ArticleJoin the discussion about wearable technology
The thing about the Internet is that you never know when something is going to go viral or spark heated debate. (Actually, it’s a fairly sure bet that anything involving politics, religion or sports...
View Article