Reengineering Health Information Technology to Wire The Medical Home
Over at The Health Care Blog Dr. Kibbee issues Part 2 of his a href=”http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/11/confessions-of.html”Confessions of a Physician EMR Champion/a, subtitled “A Conversation with American Physicians About How to Save Medicine in the Age of Information.” The Part 2 post, a href=”http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/12/confessions-of.html#more”Empowering Health IT for the Connected Medical Home,/a is a must read for all interested in the world of changing world of health/technology.br /br /Dr. Kibbe lays out 5 areas that health IT should focus on to be empowering and disruptive to the current models:ollielectronic data and information collection and access/lilicommunications among providers and patients/liliclinical decision support/lilipopulation quality, performance, and cost reporting/liliconsumer/patient education and self-management/li/olHe highlights the importance of stepping back and looking at the current EMR model (a bit of thinking a href=”http://createwv.typepad.com/createwv/2008/07/lessons-in-crea.html”outside the box/a):a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://hardknoxlife.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/squarewatermelon2.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 233px;” src=”http://hardknoxlife.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/squarewatermelon2.jpg” alt=”” border=”0″ //aa onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://hardknoxlife.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/squarewatermelon2.jpg”/ablockquotepThere is nothing transformational or disruptive about EMRs because they have been designed to meet the functions and features of a status quo business model — not the collaborative and participatory capabilities required of the business models of the future health system./p pIn this next installment […]
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