Business Week publiched an article challenging the broad asumptions concerning the benefits of digital health initiatives. It is worth reading along with the sidebar article highlighting Newt Gingrich’s Health-Care Mission. In a nutshell, this article provides links to research and cases where the promise of electronic health has not been realized. It is always good [...]
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The Other Side of Digital Health
May 28th, 2009 · No Comments
Categories: E-commerce · Healthcare informatics · Information Technology
Tags: eHealth, EHR, EMR
Business Week on Health IT
May 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Business week maintains a good collection of health IT articles worth browsing. You may want to check on this periodically.
Categories: E-commerce · Healthcare informatics · Ideas · Information Technology
Tags: Digital Health, EHR, EMR
eGovernment
May 26th, 2009 · No Comments
The Atlantic magazine carried an excellent article recently on electronic government. This article highlights some of the possible applications of technology to streamlining government services.
Categories: E-commerce · Ideas · Information Technology · Social media
Tags: eGovernment, iGov
Information integration and organizations
August 12th, 2008 · No Comments
For a number of years, I have explored a concept (or framework) I call “Information Integration“. Whether we are looking intra-organizationally, at groups or inter-organizationally, information has a number of roles to play. For example, information acts as a vector for the transfer of knowledge (boundary spanning) or as a means of coordination. But one [...]
Categories: E-commerce · Healthcare informatics · Ideas · Organizational informatics
Tags: EDI, EHR, information, information integration