June 2011

Now that Google Health is dead, what did we learn about PHRs? That engagement and messaging is what matters.

UPDATE: eWeek picked up this story and referenced it in their latest post on the subject. As I mentioned by way of the Wall Street Journal back at the end of March, Google Health was supposed to get less support under the new CEO. We learned today that “less support” meant that it would be [...]

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Guest Article: How to sell your EHR and other health IT products into clinics and physician practices

A frequent question I am asked by startups and new product development teams (especially those building EMRs / EHRs) is “what’s the best way to sell my EHR to doctors and clinics?” My friend Steve Carbonara has been selling software to practices for years so I asked him to write a companion to his piece [...]

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Report from NIST EHR Usability Forum: 5 Things EHR Vendors Should Do Right Now to Prepare for Meaningful Use Usability Criteria

Last week I was invited to attend the second annual NIST forum for EHR Usability called “A Community-Building Workshop: Measuring, Evaluating and Improving the Usability of Electronic Health Records.” NIST, in collaboration with the ONC, unveiled its initial discussion points for what it might consider as the “Usability Criteria” in the upcoming Meaningful Use Stage [...]

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Guest Article: Smartphones aren’t the only patient communications devices, text messaging works better sometimes

With the mobile and tablet frenzy at a fevered pitch, most of us technical folks end up thinking that the best way to reach patients is through the most expensive means possible (a high end PC, a tablet, a smart phone, etc.) because those are the devices we’re using all the time, too. However, sometimes [...]

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Transparent heath data and APIs are real, where were the med device vendors?

I was invited to attend the second annual Healthcare Data Initiative Forum at the NIH Institute of Medicine (IOM) and after spending most of the day today listening to the keynotes and panelists as well as acting as a judge for some of the app contests, I’m leaving impressed and full of hope for our [...]

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Health Wonk Review posted at The Health Care Blog

John Irvine and Matthew Holt have posted this week’s issue of Health Wonk Review at The Health Care Blog – lots of good reading. John and Matthew talk about the IOM Health Data Initiative Forum (called the “Data Palooza”) where I’m writing from today (I’m helping judge a contest on apps). Also covered is other [...]

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