Information Technology
Wednesday, August 26, 2009Reform slithering in through health ITBy Joe GuarinoFiled As: Health Care, Information TechnologyIs this becoming the Year of the Whack-a-Mole? Just when you thought one government takeover was being pushed back into its hole, we find out another one has already begun popping its ugly head out its aromatic cave. While ObamaCare has been compared this week to a listing ocean liner, we learn that ... more »»
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Monday, April 27, 2009Hope in Health IT?By John LaPlanteFiled As: Health Care, Information TechnologyGreg Scandlen, a contributor to this site, recommends The Data Model that Nearly Killed Me, a blog testimonial. Scandlen says that it is "the best description I have ever seen of why the concierge, direct practice, medicine movement ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009Health Care IT No Silver BulletBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health Care, Information TechnologyInformation technology is one tool that advocates of top-down health care hope will keep costs under control. But at least one academic who participated at a conference held at the American Enterprise Institute has doubts. Stephen Parente, a professor at the more »»
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Thursday, March 19, 2009A Database in HawaiiBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health Care, Information TechnologyThe Hawaii legislature is considering a bill to push the use of electronic medical records. Such records are fine in theory, but I fear that too heavy of an involvement by government will produce something equivalent to ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009Making the Health IT Bailout Work For You!What do to if you "don't have the resources to sit around watching C-CPAN." By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health Care, Information TechnologyBack on April 17, the Wall Street Journal's Elizabeth Williamson reported (online subscribers only) that ... more »»
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009Your Doctor is A-TwitterBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health Care, Information TechnologyABC News reports on a small number of doctors who are now tweeting surgeries. And that's not all: "By one estimate, more than 100 hospitals have some kind of Twitter account and 82 ... more »»
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Friday, April 17, 2009Get in the Game!By Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Economic principles, Events, General, Health Care, Information Technology, Municipal Services, PrivatizationWe're looking for creative submissions around questions like whether government is the best way to expand health coverage and whether health care in other countries is indeed better than in the U.S., as we hear so often. We offer a more »»
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Thursday, April 2, 2009A Letter on EHRBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health Care, Information TechnologyJohn R. Graham's post on Wal-Mart's IT system and its applicability to health care prompted a response from a company called Software Advice, which has a "an online resource that reviews and compares electronic medical records." ... more »»
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Thursday, March 26, 2009Health IT: Wal-Mart 's Retail Clinics Show The WayBut the government plans to make them uncompetitive By John R. GrahamFiled As: Employment, Health Care, Information TechnologyPresident Obama's claim that a Health IT "system" sanctioned and subsidised by the federal government will save $80 billion has been convincincly debunked. So: Who's got an alternative? more »»
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Friday, February 20, 2009The Folly of Government-Run BroadbandBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Communication technologies, Information TechnologyHating the cable company is as American as apple pie, it seems. But that hatred drives people to do some irrational things, such as expect local governments to own or operate broadband systems. The lure: Save a few bucks on your Internet or cable bill. The reality: Taxpayers are at risk for ... more »»
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