From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Google And Feedburner Changes Coming

January 23, 2009
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This wasn’t my idea but coming in the next few weeks, Google will be taking over the feed for The EMR Show from Feedburner.
If this is totally incomprehensible geek-speak to you, no worries. The changeover should be seamless, anyway.
However, in case it doesn’t go as planned, keep this post in mind.

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Tom Daschle, HHS Secretary-designate: Keep It Coming, Love

January 15, 2009
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In what seems like a consistent extension of President-elect Obama’s recent statements on healthcare, Tom Daschle called for a rethinking of the problem, and constructive action to fix it, during a January 8th Senate Hearing.
This AAFP article summarized his statements nicely. As a primary care physician involved in medial IT and EMR’s, it’s difficult to [...]

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Obama And The Future Of American EMR’s

January 9, 2009
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On Thursday, President-elect Obama explicitly named EMR’s as a major part of his go-forward economic plan:
To improve the quality of our health care while lowering its cost, we will make the immediate investments necessary to ensure that within five years, all of America’s medical records are computerized.  This will cut waste, eliminate red tape, and [...]

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A Tweaked Look, From A New Theme

January 5, 2009
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A slightly new look for the blog, while improving functionality.
This time, the visual theme of the site has been changed to the Thesis theme, which has been tweaked to closely resemble the last theme, Copyblogger.

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Update On Navigating “The EMR Show”

January 3, 2009

I’ve just combed through all my previous posts, and “indexed” them via tags, as opposed to categories.
In case you’re not aware of the distinction, tags are terms that describe various features or phrases in a blog post that you as a reader may want to use as a search phrase. For example, “tags” and “categories” [...]

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