Trust in the Machine

Enigma Machine We talk about trust a lot these days. Trust is one of those things that the scarcer it becomes, the more you find yourself th...

Arguments for a Universal Health Record – Part II

All animals can exchange information when in proximity to each other. Humans advanced this useful exchange to occur when the interacting par...

Arguments for a Universal Health Record

We passed the one thousand mark on products certified as EHR technologies for ambulatory care and the five hundred mark for inpatient care, ...

Commedia dell'Arte

"Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted." -- Pasi Sahlberg This was the year when Americ...

The F Words of Health Care

Vassily Kandinsky, 1923 Fragmentation, Fee-for-service and Futile care are the trifecta of what is supposedly ailing our health care system,...

The Pin Factory EHR

In 1776 Adam Smith explained to posterity how specialization increases productivity using the now famous example of a pin factory. While on...

2011 EHR Adoption Rates

On Wednesday, November 30, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the results of its yearly survey on Electronic Hea...