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...

10 Steps to Prepare your Health App for Monetization

So you released a health app, now what? While waiting for your creation to do its thing and fix health care, there are some steps you can ta...

The Holy EHR Wars

"In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the gr...

Should the DoD Buy Epic, or Cerner, or GE, or…?

The Department of Defense (DoD) is in the market for an EHR solution… again. After a lengthy foray into building its own EHR from scratch (...

Health Care Transformation – It’s not Personal, It’s Business

Why are we transforming health care? Why do we feel compelled to act with such urgency and in such broad reformative strokes? Did we just wa...

Move Over Big Data – Boundless Information has Arrived

If a mosquito lands on someone’s head and you hit the mosquito with a shovel, is the death of the guy under the mosquito considered an unint...