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/
I’m passionate about patient safety. I’m happy to report a couple of things that aren’t exactly breaking news, but still worth bringing to your attention. First off, there is a fairly new ...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2014/03/25/patient-safety-update/
As regular readers might already know, 2012 was a transformative year in my life, and mostly not in a good way. I ended the year on a high note, taking a character-building six-day, 400-mile bike...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2013/02/13/my-himss-will-be-all-about-quality-and-patient-safety/
I’ve been an absentee blogger yet again the last few weeks. Here’s something to chew on while I get caught up, a sampling of all the statements I received regarding the Stage 2 final rules fo...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2012/09/05/sampling-of-opinions-on-meaningful-use-stage-2/
I’ve just returned home from HIMSS12. As usual, it was a grueling week, made more grueling by the fact that I arrived a day earlier than usual. But I do have to say that this was the least stre...
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/
One of these days, I’m going to build a page with all my professional information and a collection of stories I’ve written over the years. In the meantime, I recently discovered a decent sour...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2011/09/13/an-easy-link-to-many-of-my-health-it-stories/
Normally this time of year, I’m making plans to attend the many fall conferences in health IT and related industries. This year, my decisions are harder. You see, it seems like everyone decided...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2011/09/01/conference-overload-meet-conference-overlap/
It’s time for another baseball season, and Health Wonk Review is ready to go. as with the Spring Training Edition two weeks ago, optimism reigns. (Host Jason Shafrin of the Healthcare Economist...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2011/04/01/opening-day-for-health-wonk-review/