Interesting impact on the Consumer-Driven Health Care. What this makes clear is every solution has ramifications to patients, doctors and payers.
One of the areas we hear over and over again in trying to solve our health care situation is transparency of cost for our consumers. This is a great illustration of the challenge. Disservice
Over the past 5 years, I worked with HITSP and the HIT Standards Committee to select standards for exchanging clinical summaries.
The following is a guest post from Dr. Larry Nathanson MD, who leads BIDMC's Emergency Medicine Informatics efforts
As Google Buzz rolled out and I made the switch to an Android phone (Motorola Droid), I struggled with where to invest my time and social media. I went through a previous effort to determine where to update virtually. Here is what it has come down to for me personally.
The following is a guest post from Dr. Larry Nathanson MD, who leads BIDMC's Emergency Medicine Informatics efforts. (Note that the photo contains only fictitious patient names):I had been anxiously awaiting the arrival of my iPad --This is the form ...
Over the past 5 years, I worked with HITSP and the HIT Standards Committee to select standards for exchanging clinical summaries. But what exactly is a clinical summary?There is common agreement about the need to exchange codified, structured data fo...
