Month: March 2010
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Adelstein Brown’s presentation on caregiving
I’ve had a couple of requests for this link, so I’m going to post it so others can find it more easily. Adelstein Brown (Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Systems Strategy Division, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care) gave a talk at the Breakfast with the Chiefs speaker series on May 13, 2009. The title…
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Kaiser Permanente keeps chugging along with EHR implementation
[UPDATE] I forgot to mention that Kaiser was also recognized as one of the world’s most innovative companies (2010) for its work on EHRs by Fast Company (link to the 2010 list of most innovative companies). I’m probably biased, but Kaiser Permanente’s Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Centre sounds quite a bit like the…
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Google and health privacy – is it enough?
I’m not sure what to make of this “warning” that Google provides to users of its Google Health service as reported in a recent post on Blogoscoped. I can’t say that I’m completely up to speed on my health information privacy regulations, but this does seem to be a bit odd. This type of…
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Nurse Order Entry – an alternative to CPOE?
Getting physicians to enter their own orders on computerized systems has and continues to be a challenge to those in the health informatics field. Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) is often used as a measure of success. Given how the health care systems in North America are structured, getting physicians on-board and using information systems…