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Reflecting upon the Obama Presidency, haven’t we seen this play before? In the Broadway Musical “The Music Man”, the very charismatic, handsome and articulate Professor Harold Hill (a traveling salesman) lands in River City Indiana for the purpose of selling to the community musical instruments and uniforms for a Boy’s Band. In order for him to succeed, however, [...]  The benefits promised us in Clinical Informatics are conditional; they depend upon people doing stuff on a regular basis inside an information system that is operationally transparent and easy to use. The challenges of making informatics work are being pursued by many honorable companies such as Allscrips, Cerner, Epic, McKesson just to name a few, [...] “The purpose of information is to affect the efficiency of achieving outcomes” The Character of Information, Curtiss Priest, Ph.D. Seeing Informatics Nurse positions requiring specific vendor experience such as Meditech, Cerner or Epic, leads me to believe that hospitals continue to poorly understand the role of information in their business. Vendor specific experience or [...] Two college professors are traveling the West Coast on a train; one is a “man of letters” a professor of English literature, the other a scientist, a professor of Physical Chemistry. After a few hours discussing respective tenure tracks, conversations dwindled as they read and gazed out the window to the passing scenery. Soon the [...] Back in 1996 when the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was signed into law there were approximately 20 million internet users, AOL was the most visited site and the average amount of time spent on line was about 2 hours a month. Today there are over 245 million internet users, no one talks [...] |
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