A Health IT Soothsayer

A Health IT Soothsayer

One of the best parts about predicting the future is how rarely the soothsayer is held accountable. The famous Michel de Nostredame, better known as Nostradamus, is popularly credited with predicting the rise of Hitler in Germany, the attacks of 9/11, and climate...
Analytics: Act Like an EIS Officer

Analytics: Act Like an EIS Officer

If you lived in Milwaukee in early April 1993, you would have found an unusual sight in many of the pharmacies around town. Row after row of anti-diarrheal mediations were missing from shelves, bought up in a frenzy by citizens suffering from acute abdominal pain,...
EMRs: Are We There Yet?

EMRs: Are We There Yet?

Our unfinished journey is more than half a century old. While rock’n’roll came of age and hippies invaded San Francisco, a small hospital in Mountain View, CA, in the heart of what was to become Silicon Valley, teamed up with the Lockheed Corporation and began the...