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  • Technical difficulties

    Happy 2007 everyone. I know I haven’t written in a while, but I’ve been busy with my dissertation. I was doing some server maintenance (mostly back-ups and cleaning up some files) and I seem to be experiencing some technical difficulties with the blog. My apologies to anyone who is looking for older articles/posts and can’t…

  • OHA Conference 2006

    I’m attending the OHA annual convention (www.ohahealthachieve.com) until Wednesday November 8th, 2006. I can’t speak for everyone else, but the OHA convention is an event that I look forward to attending each year, as there’s much to learn from all of the different presentorss and vendor exhibits. I’ll be writing up a summary of each…

  • EHR use in the United States

    Health Affairs has an interesting article titled “How common are electronic health records in the United States? A summary of the evidence“. The authors reviewed the literature to try and determine the availability of and use of electronic health records (EHRs). The short answer to the authors’ question is: not very much. A reported 24%…

  • Another tablet device for healthcare

    Intel recently announced a new “mobile computing platform for health care professionals”, dubbed the mobile clinical assistant. I used to be a big fan of tablet-style computers for health care use, but recently, I’m not so sure that this form factor works (at least in hospital environments). I think the technology itself is great, but…

  • Learning from the past and living with legacy systems

    Over the past eight years that I’ve been in the “real world”, I’ve had opportunities to work at various parts of the health care system from promoting healthy behaviours to children of family violence, preparing a small community hospital implement a new electronic records system, developing a quality improvement program and conducting business process re-engineering…

  • Should patients be worried about the security of their health information?

    Should people be worried about the security of their health information? In the past, I used to believe that perhaps the issues of security and privacy (an issue that is related to but NOT identical to security) were overblown. I would go so far as to suggest that those with vested interests used these two…

  • Disruptive Technologies in Health Care: A summary

    My apologies for not getting to this post sooner, but this past year has been … eventful. Here is my list of disruptive technologies that could be used in to improve and change health care. I have included links to the entries highlighting each technology – no need to rehash what’s already been written. Disruptive…

  • Upcoming Conference: Games for Health 2006 – Sept. 28-29, 2006

    Here’s an announcement for an exciting upcoming conference: Games for Health 2006 Third Annual Conference Covering Intersection of Games, Health and Healthcare – September 28-29, 2006 – Baltimore. Here’s a description of the goal of the conference: Summarizing the importance of the event, Ben Sawyer said, “Slowly but surely the last year has seen a…

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