Doctors, healthcare professionals, and patients from around the world will convene in Paris, May 23-24, 2012, for the second annual “Doctors 2.0 and You” Conference whose focus is Web 2.0, social media and mobile apps for healthcare. Founder Denise Silber has partnered with Larry Chu of Stanford’s “Medicine X” event for this year’s conference that can [...]
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For those not familiar with #HITsm TweetChats, #HITsm is an acronym for “healthcare IT social media” and we focus on current topics that are influencing healthcare technology, health IT, and the use of social media in healthcare. Be sure and follow the @HealthStandards Twitter account, which generates each week’s topics, as well as other #HITsm [...]
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The way to a nurse’s heart is through chocolate. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Next Halloween drop your excess bags of candy off at the nearest nurses’ station and see what happens. You’ll probably be reminded of the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. And we’re not particular. Three pounds of M & M’s is just [...]
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For those not familiar with #HITsm TweetChats, #HITsm is an acronym for “healthcare IT social media” and we focus on current topics that are influencing healthcare technology, health IT, and the use of social media in healthcare. Be sure and follow the @HealthStandards Twitter account, which generates each week’s topics, as well as other #HITsm [...]
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HITECH. Meaningful Use. HIE. IHE. Many words and acronyms, but there is one often overlooked — Health Level Seven or HL7. While HITECH and Meaningful Use, Stage 1, primarily focused on get certified EHRs installed and operational, lingering in Stage 2 is actually exchanging patient data. Health Information Exchanges, or HIEs, are receiving a lot [...]
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It’s impossible to avoid the ongoing debate over the changes that Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) will bring to the industry. Much like the political rancor over the Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”) that first mentioned ACOs, the new model of care has hopeful supporters and a number of detractors within the health care industry.

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During a recent IM chat with HL7 Standards blogger and registered nurse Jennifer Thew, I sarcastically asked, “Why do nurses get a full week in their honor? Seems like overkill to me.” While I would love to share with you her reply, I’d rather not offend those who try to avoid offensive language or the [...]
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For those of you who may have seen my tweets from last week’s iHT2 Summit in Atlanta, you probably already know that one of my favorite sessions was Dr. Naomi Fried’s keynote on “Innovating Innovation.” She spoke at length (and quite engagingly) about her role as Chief Innovation Officer at Children’s Hospital of Boston, which [...]
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With the steady stream of updates about Meaningful Use Stage 2 requirements, health information exchanges, the Supreme Court’s pending decision on the Affordable Care Act and associated Accountable Care Organizations, it’s easy to forget that there is still plenty to learn about current health data standards.

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For those that have already gotten to know CLOUD and our vision, you know that the new Internet we seek to usher in is a big vision. Every so often, we like to “come out of the clouds” and look at a day-in-the-life scenario in a pre- and post-CLOUD world to illustrate these big ideas. [...]
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