Meaningful Use Stage 2 Beta - A Suggestion

It’s that time of year again when Meaningful Use conversations heat up because all sorts of deadlines are approaching, and as expected, nobo...

How to Hang Out Your Electronic Shingle

(Source: forgotten-ny.com ) When a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant or any other professional graduated from University, or moved to a new to...

New Medicine – First, Show Me the Money

This is a warning shot across the bow of the mighty health care ship which seems to be changing course in search of calmer waters to carry t...

Cost Effectiveness of Health Information Exchange

At some point it was decided that the exchange of clinical information between facilities of care is lacking in both quantity and quality, a...

The Contrived March to Scarcity in Health Care

A recent survey of physicians , conducted by Tilburt and colleagues and published in JAMA, finds that most doctors support measures to impro...