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A Call for Plug-and-Play EHRs
May 22, 2009 10:37 AM by Jay Vance

Nothing like great timing. In my last blog post, I suggested that electronic health record (EHR) and personal health record (PHR) technology needs to become more like an iPhone in order to achieve widespread acceptance from technology-shy physicians and Read More...

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Lessons from an iPhone
May 19, 2009 8:33 AM by Jay Vance

I admit it, I was suffering from iPhone envy. As an unabashed technophile (i.e., hard-core geek), I couldn't help but be intrigued by all the cool things the iPhone was supposedly capable of doing. When one of your colleagues says something to the effect Read More...

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Beth Israel/Google Health Fiasco--Is Technology Really the Problem?
April 28, 2009 7:55 AM by Jay Vance

Recently the Boston Globe has been reporting on problems arising when Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center sent insurance claims data (i.e., billing codes) to Google Health PHR as a means of summarizing patients' medical condition. As it turned out, this Read More...

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Bits & Pieces
February 17, 2009 3:10 PM by Jay Vance

Here are a few items of information from the past week I thought you might be interested in. 1. Transcription Service Provider Runs Afoul of the VA From a Department of Veterans Affairs press release : During a routine internal inspection, the Department 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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