Monday, February 25, 2013

The Destructive Recreation of Health Care

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A dark wind is beginning to blow through the tortured landscape of health care in America. At the confluence of the corporate cold front w...
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Monday, February 18, 2013

De Novo EMR Design Part II: The Quest for Information

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The Edwin Smith papyrus ca. 1500 BCE In Part I of this series, we engaged in a design exercise for an imaginary software product tha...
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Monday, February 11, 2013

Dr. Watson is Not a Meaningful User

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IBM ’s Dr. Watson of Jeopardy! fame has finally completed its residency and fellowships and, presumably to its creators’ utter delight,...
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

De Novo EMR Design - Part I: Stating the Obvious

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Our ancestors began using tools millions of years ago and humanity assumed control of the planet it lives on through a succession of tools...
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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Half Gov Half Degov Venti EMR Lite

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Somewhere between the 20th century Bank ATM and the 25th century Tricorder, lays the EMR that we should have today. Somewhere between the ...
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Sunday, January 6, 2013

The Crosshairs of a Triple Aim

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“Better Care for Individuals, Better Health for Populations, and Lower Per Capita Costs” [ ihi.org ] If you stop to think about the holy...
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Monday, December 3, 2012

The Arithmetic of Health Care

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Adam Smith would disagree, Karl Marx would be appalled, and heck even Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand would be raising objections. But for so...
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