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...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2014/10/20/podcast-scot-silverstein-talks-health-it-safety-risks/
The following ad has popped up several times on my mobile Facebook app recently: That’s from Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y., and the first sentence of that ad is absolutely false, no...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2014/06/29/adelphi-u-ad-spreads-health-reform-fallacy/
A couple weeks ago, I had a story in Healthcare IT News about the growing use of the “APSO” notes for documenting patient encounters. APSO flips around the traditional SOAP format (subjective...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2014/05/20/apso-vs-soap-continued/
This comes in late on a Friday, though not as late on the West Coast, where it happened: The California HealthCare Foundation announced that founding President and CEO Mark D. Smith, M.D., will b...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2013/01/11/california-healthcare-foundation-ceo-smith-stepping-down/
In my previous post, I was perhaps a bit too critical of Maggie Mahar in her hosting of last week’s Health Wonk Review. I noted that there was not a word about health IT in that rundown, but th...
According to the Health Care Renewal blog, which chronicles some of the myriad problems in American healthcare, editors of the Wikipedia page for “electronic health record” keep deleting or c...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2012/01/29/disappearing-ehr-disadvantages-from-wikipedia/
In part two of my series from month’s IBM Exchange 2011, my guest is IBM Distinguished Engineer Scott Schumacher. In this lively podcast, Schumacher discusses Watson, disease management and the...
I just got word from AMIA that the American Board of Medical Specialties has officially accepted clinical informatics as a medical subspecialty. I’ll have more in a story for InformationWeek by...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2011/09/22/clinical-informatics-certified-as-medical-subspecialty/
Back in June, I covered the Wisconsin Technology Network’s Digital Healthcare Conference in Madison. That conference featured a panel with Vi Shaffer, research vice president and industry servi...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2011/08/12/podcast-gartners-vi-shaffer-on-hie-acos-and-meaningful-use/
I’m getting ready to head west for, among other things, the annual AMDIS Physician-Computer Connection in Ojai, Calif., a high-level gathering of chief medical information officers. After years...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2011/07/10/cmios-wanted-in-the-uk/