Showing posts with label informatics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label informatics. Show all posts
Thursday, November 17, 2016

The electronic health record problem list - how I'd do it for the third time

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I did corporate research and development in clinical software for about 20 years. During that time I couldn’t write about informatics ideas....
Monday, July 18, 2016

Informatics core: US genomic and healthcare standards have a common problem.

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My current work means I’ve spent many hours plumbing details of major American and international health care standards, particularly FHIR, H...
Monday, July 11, 2016

Systemic failure in American medicine: combining ICD-10-CM with "leaf code" reimbursement rules

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This is very much “inside baseball”. It’s related to professional work I do. It’s incomprehensible to most people, but it’s having a big imp...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Apple's CareKit (HealthKit) - what kinds of clinical data does it work with?

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I thought Apple had given up on HealthKit, but recently we learned that it’s been rebranded as CareKit and it seems to be going forward. Si...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Using Gmail and the link to correspond with patients -- HIPAA 2013 clarification

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HIPAA is designed to protect patient confidentiality. It’s widely misunderstood, not least because of the scary fines for violations . I thi...
Monday, September 14, 2015

Google Trends: Across my interests some confirmation and some big surprises.

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I knew Google Trends was “a thing”, but it had fallen off my radar. Until I wondered if Craigslist was going the way of Rich Text Format ....
Thursday, July 02, 2015

Automating medical error: misadventures in medication reconciliation

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I recently enjoyed a nasal surgery procedure. More on that in a later post, this one is about a medical error that followed the surgery. It’...
Thursday, January 01, 2015

Gene-environment interactions and the modesty of 2014 personalized medicine: Obesity, Reefer madness

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Between 2007 and 2008 my work life got unusually exciting. Most of the time I work on software development in well understood aspects of med...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Usability of electronic health records: test cognitive cost first

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Obama raised mileage standards for my industry. Ok, so it wasn’t him personally, and it’s not mileage, and I don’t exactly own the health c...
Sunday, November 06, 2011

The sharing challenge: access, topic and identity. Why G+ fails.

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Setting aside the act of mass datacide that moved Google up my corporate evil scale , G+ suffers from a fundamental Circle problem. It may ...