October 21st, 2008
Advances in Technology create dilemmas.
Obama says technology will save health care, and it’s true that IT is quickly becoming a medical resource: Google, which...
October 21st, 2008
A new study released by the RAND corporation, a nonprofit think-tank, has found switching to a system using unique patient IDs for electronic health...
October 21st, 2008
A Rand Corporation study finds that the use of unique patient identification numbers would help improve healthcare quality and efficiency.
The creation of such an...
October 20th, 2008
It’s been a decade since federal legislation called for the creation of a unique patient identifier — a number carried by each American linking...
October 20th, 2008
Is Esther Dyson, the technology venture capitalist who is training to be an astronaut, genetically predisposed to a major heart attack? Does Steven Pinker,...
October 15th, 2008
According to Wikipedia, a male African elephant can weigh up to of 26,000 pounds. That gives you some idea how ponderously depressing acting CMS...
October 14th, 2008
The Kabuki we see in the transition to electronic health records obscures two obvious and fundamental issues: The nature of the confidentiality privilege for...
October 14th, 2008
A new Morpace Omnibus study, fielded in September, reveals that 48 percent of American adults support creation of a nationwide system of medical records,...
October 13th, 2008
Many Americans want electronic health records, and say they would access their personal health information online, but the majority are concerned about confidentiality issues,...
October 13th, 2008
Is the government looking for terrorists in Americans’ electronic medical records? Admittedly, it’s an astonishing question, but for many months, this year and last,...
