July 2011

FDA’s new draft guidance on mobile apps and what it means to health IT vendors

The FDA released the (currently non-binding) “Draft Guidance for Industry and  Food and Drug Administration Staff on Mobile Medical Applications” earlier this week. I knew many of my clients and readers would be asking about the ramifications of this new guidance so I read the document as soon as it came out. In general I [...]

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How to teach Microsoft applications that “HER" is not the proper replacement for “EHR”

After the 4 thousandth time I’ve cursed Microsoft Outlook, Word, or Excel for “auto correcting” the acronym “EHR" to “HER” I finally took 30 seconds to fix this once and for all. I figured with 20 years of programming experience I should be able to figure it out Here’s what you should do if you’re [...]

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Life Sciences venture investing dramatically outperformed Tech venture investing over the past decade

I read with great interest a study posted on TheBij.com which talks about venture investment returns in the healthcare field: Life Sciences: The Rodney Dangerfield of Venture Capital. I’ve been in the general IT as well as the specific healthcare IT world for many years but the study results managed to surprise me, specifically the following: [...]

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Why medical device data is the best way to fill meaningful use EHRs and conduct comparative effectiveness research (CER)

I will be presenting at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCon) in Portland at the end of the month. As an avid reader of dozens of O’Reilly’s technical books over the years I was excited when they reached out to ask if I would talk about open source in the healthcare world. While open source [...]

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