The XY Files in an MT World : November 2008

A Typewriter Repairman Grows in Manhattan November 24, 2008 8:43 AM by Jay Vance: I read a delightful story from BusinessWeek this morning entitled, "The Last Typewriter Repairman?" It's about Paul Schweitzer, a 69-year-old New Yorker who still offers typewriter repair services in Manhattan--and he makes house calls, no less. It occurred Read More...
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A Major Step Forward for PHRs November 19, 2008 11:27 AM by Jay Vance: On November 12, acting CMS administrator Kerry Weems and HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt announced a pilot program which will enable Medicare members in Arizona and Utah to use their choice of four commercial personal health record (PHR) providers to access Read More...
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Society For Exorbitantly Expensive And Difficult To Implement EHRs (SEEDIE) November 10, 2008 11:58 AM by Jay Vance: Someone alerted me to this spoof website and I got a big kick out of it. It's a great followup to my last post regarding implementing an electronic health records (EHR) system in this country. From the website's " SEEDIEspeak " page: SEEDIE invites industry Read More...
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Who Should Control Health Records? November 5, 2008 12:53 PM by Jay Vance: It seems inevitable to me that sooner or later we're going to have some form of standardized electronic health records (EHRs) in this country. However, it is by no means clear at this point what such a system will ultimately look like. There's still a Read More...
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