Earlier this week I had the opportunity to attend a lecture on the Microsoft campus given by visiting author, Matthew May ( The Elegant Solution, In Pursuit of Elegance, The Shibumi Strategy ). Matthew May’s (left) latest book is titled, The Laws of Subtraction...

Fellow doctors, if the current crop of popular slate tablet computers have been letting you down; if you have been loving the form factor but frustrated by what you can’t do with it or run on it; if you or your IT department are increasingly worried about...

I came across a report that has me shaking my head. A new Commonwealth Fund report provides the following information on projected average family health insurance premiums as a percentage of median family income 2013 to 2021.  Here’s the data: Projected...

Happy New Year to HealthBlog readers around the world. I hope you had a wonderful holiday. As evident from this post, I’m now back in the saddle after enjoying more than two weeks away with family and friends.  It seems that the blogosphere is exploding...

If you work in healthcare, you’d have to have been living under a rock not to know about HIPAA, the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Among other things, HIPAA specifies how doctors, hospitals, clinics and anyone else who is...

Two articles, both in Healthcare IT News, caught my attention today. The first was an article by Erin McCann that reports on the results of a new survey. It suggests that the use of electronic health records (EHRs) by family physicians in America could...

After what seems like too long a time confined to my Microsoft office in Redmond, next week I will hit the road to visit with some of our customers and partners in the greater Louisville area. The reason for my visit is an invitation to provide a breakfast...