On Health Care Tech & Policy

These are exciting times for anyone involved in the Health Information Technology (HIT) industry. HIT has evolved from an obscure endeavor, ...

It has become politically incorrect to refer to EHRs as products. Instead, EHRs are now “technologies” as evident in all ONC and CMS publish...

The public comment period for the PCAST report is now closed. Since those comments are public anyway, I thought I'd post here what I su...

What’s in a name? Sometimes nothing much. Sometimes a shift in paradigm. The Medical Record in its current format was created over a century...

2010 is drawing to an end amongst a flurry of activities in the Health IT field. In a few short days 2011, the year of the Meaningful Use, w...

At a certain point in time, somewhere in America, someone stated that people should all have lifetime, complete medical records. Sounds reas...

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a report this month ambitiously titled “REALIZING THE FULL PO...