by Peter Beck on February 27, 2010
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I can’t think of a better example of a technology working so quickly, so directly, so without any kind of special prep or FEMA-approved infrastructure, to help individuals connect in the most catastrophic of conditions.
Usually, communications are the first things to implode in times like this!
There are lessons to be learned, here, re: network durability, viral participation, and the primacy of doing what needs to be done.
This story could not have happened without people participating, working hard to help. And it could not have happened without the global software and hardware system collectively known as social networking.
Yes, it really works.
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by Peter Beck on January 7, 2010
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With all the money they make it appears that is the least they can do with doctors and hospitals struggling to survive in many areas of the US. There are also many other EHR vendors who are not financed or part of an insurance company that can help as well.
Interesting and disturbing post from The Medical Quack.
If I’m reading this correctly, the Ingenix subdivision of United Healthcare is offering a sweet deal for small group docs to get an EHR system: 6 months, no payments, to sign up for their version of the Allscripts-Misys electronic health record.
But it sounds like it comes with a kind of Big Brother price.
Derm offices using the system that suddenly had non-payment when the “business intelligence arm detected potential fraud.”
The State of Washington using the system to “score” Medicaid claims.
I’m all for the third quoted use: Sutter Hospitals using the system to look at costs, presumably to tighten things up financially (while hopefully looking just as closely at quality). But it’s a bit concerning when some of the first uses of an insurer’s EHR sound more “1984″ than “It’s A Wonderful Life.”
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by Peter Beck on November 30, 2009
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It’s not quite the world’s oldest profession.
More like civilization’s.
It predates EHRs, paper, papyrus…even clay.
So long as there has been writing, even on stone tablets, there have been scribes.
Folks trained to commit words to a more durable medium than fallible memory.
Folks who did nothing else besides that special act of translation.
Because the movers and shakers who were actually talking, doing, or thinking the important stuff were busy with the important stuff — and were unable to scribe simultaneously, and too busy to learn.
Sound familiar?
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