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Join me on June 2 in Baltimore to hear me speak about mHealth, cloud, wireless life sciences, patient access to EHRs, and Connected Medical Devices

The Baltimore Chapter of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) has invited me to come and talk about mobile health, cloud, wireless life sciences, patient centered access to their electronic records, and connected medical devices. I will be presenting and moderating discussions on Saturday, June 2 at the National Electronics Museum in Linthicum, Maryland. You don’t need to be an IEEE member and guests are welcome to attend – please register here for the free event.

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Guest Article: In a world of cloud services, are HL7 interface engines dead?

I spend a good deal of time with clients these days who are trying to connect web services, implement service oriented architecture (SOA), and moving to the cloud. All these requirements are focused on integration of multiple, sometimes legacy sometimes modern, systems but most of them still require lots of HL7 interfacing. Some of my clients start their integration efforts hoping that there is something better or more modern than HL7 but the truth is that HL7 and interfacing remains the backbone of health system integration.

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What I learned at the HIMSS Conference about developments in Health IT for the rest of 2012

Like many of you, I made the annual pilgrimage to the HIMSS Conference last month; here’s what I learned while I was in Vegas and my takeaways for the rest of the year. Major developments in Health IT for the rest of 2012 It was discussed a lot in the educational sessions and vendors didn’t talk about it much, but the new realities of complex business models (like PCMH and ACOs) mean that standardization of clinical workflows won’t really be possible for a while.

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Take new practice management technologies to the bank as patients push for online services

I was recently interviewed for a nice article on why and how private physician practices should push for new technologies. Andrea Downing Peck did a pretty good job putting together a collage of views from me and some of my well known colleagues online: Mary Pat Whaley, David Henriksen, Dr. Jaan Sidorov, Shari Crooker, Rosemarie Nelson, David Harvey, David Williams. Here are some of my favorite quotes (taken directly from the article):

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Join me on Friday afternoon for the Military EHR Conference in Arlington, VA

The Military Electronic Health Records Conference is being held at the Holiday Inn Rosslyn in Arlington, VA on Thursday and Friday this week. Military EHRs are a complicated topic and I have been invited to deliver a talk called Using Connected Medical Devices to Improve Military EHRs & Integrating Social Media into Military EHRs. I will be presenting on Friday afternoon at 1:45p but should be around at the conference before and after as well if you’d like to meetup.

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Guest Article: Do’s and Dont’s of RFID in Hospitals

I’ve written and presented recently on a number of “Do’s and Dont’s” around medical device integration, mobile health, EHRs, and various related topics. Some of you have asked if I could do something similar on the subject of RFID. Since I’m not an expert on the topic, I reached out to Yedidia Blonder, a Product Manager at Vizbee RFID Solutions. Vizbee offers RFID applications for multiple industries, including a patient and hospital asset tracking application for healthcare institutions.

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Meaningful Use Stage 2 NPRM means new opportunities for Medical Device and non-traditional Health IT Vendors

Last week at the HIMSS Conference ONC announced Meaningful Use Stage 2 Notice of Proposed Rule-Making. Many of you have asked me for a quick opinion of what it means to health IT and medical device vendors so I wanted to take a few minutes to share my initial thoughts. Meaningful Use Stage 1 was mostly about setting the bare minimum electronic health record functional requirements and pegging a “floor” for data capture; it had many required elements a few optional elements for care providers to utilize (but vendors had to make even the optional functionality available for use).

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Tips from Real Users on How to Succeed with Electronic Medical Records

There are important differences between the health care providers who truly reap the benefits of switching to EMR, and those who don’t. I’ve covered some of these differences before and I was pleased to see that Katie Matlack, Medical Analyst at Software Advice, actually went a step further and interviewed representatives of three health providers using EMRs now, identifying some key takeaways to extend the conversation. Below are four tips, and for the other four tips, you can view the entire article on her blog.

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Guest Article: Techniques for matching patient record data across disparate EHRs and other systems

Some of the most frequent questions I receive these days surround data interoperability and integrating multiple health IT systems. One of the biggest problems in connectivity is matching patient record data and ensuring that the same patient data in different systems is linked properly. Given how many times this topic comes up, I reached out to Cameron Thompson, Acxiom Healthcare Group Managing Director. Acxiom has an interesting method of patient data matching, called persistent links, and when I saw what they were doing for matching consumer records in non-healthcare settings (e.

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