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Gifts and Giving by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Now that Black Friday and Cyber Sunday are behind us, it's time to reflect on gift giving. There are been several great articles which provide guiding principles.George F. W ... Read on »

A Vegan Thanksgiving 2009 by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Last year I wrote about my vegan Thanksgiving and the reason I became vegan in the first place.Here's the 2009 menu - healthy, light, and traditional. Since there is no grea ... Read on »

A Plea for Civility by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy It's Thanksgiving Day and we should all take time for our families, our mental health, and a pause from the pressures of the modern world. As I've told my staff, it's been a ... Read on »

Status emailicus by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy My day is spent running meetings - staff meetings, steering committee meetings, and various kinds of national/regional/local governance bodies.Over the past year I have notic ... Read on »

A Visicalc moment by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy If you were an early Apple II or IBM PC user, you may remember the first time you saw Visicalc (1979), SuperCalc (1980), MultiPlan (1982), or Lotus 1-2-3 (1983).The spreadshee ... Read on »

Marketing Interoperability by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In the past, it's been challenging to market interoperability because incentives to share data between organizations are often not aligned.You can imagine the following conver ... Read on »

Cool Technology of the Week by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Cool Technology of the WeekWe've all used Google products - Search, Gmail, Blogger, You Tube, Docs, and Analytics. Along the way, we've provided information about ourselves ... Read on »

The November HIT Standards Committee Meeting by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The two major agenda items of the November HIT Standards Committee were the lessons learned from the Implementation Workgroup activities and security testimony from multiple i ... Read on »

Guiding Principles for the HIT Standards Committee by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In the past few weeks, the HIT Standards Committee has gathered a significant amount of written and in person testimony from standards stakeholders. We've run the FACA blog ... Read on »

An Open Access Scheduling Model for Management by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Wouldn't it be great if we could solve today's problems today?Every day I receive over 1000 emails. A small number of those emails are complex problems that require multi-st ... Read on »

CatDog by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy When my daughter was growing up, she watched a program called CatDog about the seamless integration of the two animals. "Their" life required constant communicatio ... Read on »

Cool Technology of the Week by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Recently, Harvard Medical School implemented a secure password reset architecture that is my cool technology of the week.Forgotten password processes typically work by asking ... Read on »

The China Study by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy As readers of my blog know I'm a vegan, a locovore, and grow my own vegetables organically. I avoid caffeine and exercise by climbing, cycling, hiking, kayaking, and skiing ... Read on »

The Magic of Middleware by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy As I mentioned in my blog about Certification verses Meaningful Use, there will be 9 data exchanges required in 2011ePrescribingSending reminders to patientsChecking insurance ... Read on »

The Genius of the AND by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Recently in Washington, an important political figure asked me why I had the reputation of resisting change.Since I've spent my life catalyzing change and embracing the latest ... Read on »

Certification Verses Meaningful Use by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Recently, clinicians have asked me "why should I implement my organization's preferred EHR when I've found a less expensive vendor that promises meaningful use?"This ... Read on »

Cool Technology of the Week by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy On November 4, I met with my director of IS at Needham hospital and we discussed the effort involved in creating a lab ordering/resulting dictionary that links together clinic ... Read on »

The H1N1 and Seasonal Flu Vaccines by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy On Monday, I received the 2009 Live Attenuated Intranasal (LAIV) H1N1 vaccine and the 2009 injectable seasonal flu vaccine. As a healthy clinician under 50 who sees pediatri ... Read on »

Standards Lessons from the Web by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Following last week's HIT Standards Committee Implementation Workgroup Hearing, Microsoft's Sean Nolan and Gartner's Wes Rishel wrote thoughtful blogs. They point out that th ... Read on »

The FY10 BIDMC IS Operating Plan by Dr. John H. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I've previously posted the Draft Clinical Systems Operating Plan for BIDMC Information Systems.Today, I've posted the entire FY10 BIDMC IS Operating plan for infrastructure, c ... Read on »

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