Category Archives: health IT
Guest Blog from John Lynn: My Overall View of Healthcare IT After HIMSS15
I would like to welcome Health System Ed’s first guest blogger for the occasion of HIMSS15. John Lynn of Healthcare Scene and EMR & HIPAA has been blogging on health IT for 10 years and is a regular at the annual HIMSS … Continue reading
HIMSS15: Live Vicariously!
By Peggy Salvatore The Health Information Management System Society is hosting its 15th annual convention this week. It is probably one of its most important, too. Health IT has morphed from an emphasis on getting functional patient record systems into … Continue reading
In Health IT: Think Globally, Act Globally
By Peggy Salvatore Two items caught my attention last week that underlined the importance of thinking more expansively and inclusively about health IT as we thunder ahead with Meaningful Use 3 requirements and HHS’s health IT Roadmap. Over the past … Continue reading
Project Writer Available for HIMSS15
Would you like to use HIMSS15 as a starting point to explore a topic, do research this year and create a white paper and do a presentation next year? I am hoping to tap into a network of health IT people … Continue reading
Whose Patient Record Is It, Anyway? Speak Up Now
By Peggy Salvatore The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee’s hearing last week on the electronic health records trained its sights on interoperability of EHR systems, or lack thereof. And the Senate, like much of the rest of … Continue reading
Redefining Health IT (or) Are We Putting Disc Brakes on a Space Shuttle?
By Peggy Salvatore My grandmother was born in 1896. The ice man delivered big blocks of ice through a little ice door in the kitchen where my great-grandfather moved the ice into the family icebox. My great-grandmother, fresh from birthing … Continue reading
Working the Roadmap
By Peggy Salvatore The ONC’s national meeting held earlier this month is cause for the greatest amount of optimism I have seen since the government decided to drive health information technology. Current and former national coordinators gathered on one stage, … Continue reading
Valentine’s Edition of Health Wonk Review: For Health Policy Lovers Everywhere
By Peggy Salvatore A few years ago I hosted the Valentine’s Day edition of HWR, and it remains one of my favorite weeks to host. Love makes the world go ‘round, whether it’s our spouse, kids, family, friends, pets, or … Continue reading
The Limits (and Horrors) of Technology in the Patient World
The New York Times called attention to a horrific death in a NYC hospital earlier this month. It raised a plethora of issues about our right to privacy, as well as how, when and what types of technology, are appropriate … Continue reading
Don’t Blink! Today’s Electronic Patient Record Systems are Tomorrow’s Horse-and-Buggies
By Peggy Salvatore Given the geometric pace of change, the electronic health record systems of today are horse-and-buggies rapidly in the making. The pace of recent change means that your typical EHR will not experience obsolescence from the amount of … Continue reading
