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Healthcare gets WIRED

Posted Sunday, December 09, 2007 6:46 PM by hlthblog
No, this isn't another story about Unified Communications, cellular phones, or even healthcare's most wired hospitals. It's about a keynote address I attended this morning at the World Healthcare Innovation and IT Congress in Washington, D.C., at the Read More...
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Data input: Still a final frontier in clinical computing but progress is being made

Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 6:26 PM by hlthblog
I've called "data input" the final frontier in clinical computing. In fact, data input has been a frequent topic on HealthBlog these past few years. If you want to see for yourself, just type in "data input" in the handy search box on the upper right-hand Read More...
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A New Day in Healthcare IT

Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 7:56 AM by hlthblog
In my last Blog posting I hinted that a "new day was coming in Healthcare IT". As HealthBlog readers may have surmised, I had advance knowledge of an announcement that was made late last evening and is hitting the press today. That announcement is the Read More...
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Mailbag: HealthBlog readers confirm some important trends

Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 10:11 AM by hlthblog
I wanted to share a couple of insightful comments on previous HealthBlog posts that I received this week. One reader responds to my post about a public hospital in Spain, Torrevieja Salud , that I wrote about while attending a health leaders event in Read More...
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The commodity storm; unleashing an EMR tornado for small physician offices and clinics

Posted Friday, October 19, 2007 8:29 PM by hlthblog
My latest travels took me to Louisville, Kentucky, where I provided a keynote for a breakfast event organized by Health Enterprises Network . It was a gathering of more than 275 healthcare, business, and community leaders from around the central Kentucky Read More...
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Microsoft HealthVault: A Place to Search, Store and Connect Health Information for You and Your Family

Posted Thursday, October 04, 2007 10:05 AM by hlthblog
As a physician, I know how important it is to have access to my patient's health information. As a patient, I know how frustrating it is to have my health information scattered across multiple doctors, ambulatory clinics and hospitals. As a care manager Read More...
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A Swiss Army Knife Approach to Healthcare IT

Posted Friday, September 28, 2007 10:30 AM by hlthblog
Last evening I returned to Seattle from a three-day trip to Switzerland. I was there to provide the opening keynote for the ehealthcare.ch conference in Nottwil and also to meet with Microsoft customers and partners attending the event. Perhaps the highlight Read More...
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If Disney Did Healthcare: Part 2

Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 6:44 PM by hlthblog
Last April I posted a piece on this Blog entitled " If Disney Did Healthcare ". I commented that there was a lot the healthcare industry could learn from Disney about customer service, customer experience, and customer satisfaction. It was one of those Read More...
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Microsoft Healthcare Common User Interface: Now available free worldwide

Posted Monday, September 10, 2007 3:25 PM by hlthblog
Anyone who works in healthcare knows that many of today’s clinical software applications leave a lot to be desired when it comes to “user experience”. Unlike ubiquitous, commodity software used in other businesses, healthcare applications are highly proprietary Read More...
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Help people around the world, win fame and prizes for your healthcare solutions

Posted Monday, July 23, 2007 10:51 AM by hlthblog
Are you a healthcare industry solution vendor? Do you want worldwide recognition for your company's good work and the solutions you build using Microsoft technologies? Would you like an opportunity to win prizes including a roundtrip for two to Paris Read More...
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If Disney Did Healthcare......

Posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 9:58 AM by hlthblog
I’m writing this from Orlando, Florida, where I just delivered the opening keynote for the American Association of Urgent Care Medicine annual conference and exhibition at the Walt Disney World Resort . As you might imagine, I come here frequently for Read More...
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Doctors write their own prescription for healthcare IT

Posted Friday, March 16, 2007 12:14 PM by hlthblog
This past week I've come across two examples of why I believe we are finally at a tipping point in healthcare IT solutions; solutions that are meeting the expectations and work-flow requirements of clinicians. Both solutions were designed by clinicians Read More...
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