Will physicians use an EMR? Will healthcare use an EHR? Will patients use a PHR? And will these forms of digital health records be massively adopted?
Moving from a paper to a digital record brings issues of interoperability and distinguishability. In a paper world, form, presentation and content have been understood for thousands of year. Paper [...]
If this equation has some validity, then the complexity of the health cloud may be inferred from the number of potential exchange transactions. Here the HIE (exchange transactions) term, a surrogate measure, will be replaced by interoperability. The equation is reformulated as:
Complexity = Entities × xHRs1 × Interoperability
In terms of a complexity scale, the lowest [...]
Patient X was contacted by his personal physician yesterday, he reports that his potassium is high. Patient Y is on three medications: the diabetes one, the blood pressure one and the cholesterol one. Patient Z has been vomiting and urinating blood for months and has had several tests performed with unknown results. These are common [...]
Stark introduces Health–e Information Technology Act: bill sets deadline for standards for HIT system developments, creates incentives for adoption, and includes strong rules for privacy protection
Clear Standards and Deadlines to Spur Development of Health IT Systems
Codifies the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT, present) within the Department of Health and Human [...]
MedicalQuack raise the issues of competing strategies and philosophies for health information exchange. One end of the spectrum is the PHR-movement, with Google Health and Microsoft’s HealthVault the front-runners. On the other end of the spectrum is the RHIO-movement, lead by insurers and governmental and non-governmental third-party providers. A fundamental question at play here is [...]
