When asked about the research that went into the design of the iPad, Jobs replied “None, it’s not the consumer’s job to know what they want.”
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Seeing Is Not Believing
As organizations work at deploying health information technology and deliver clinical transformation through redesigned workflows, they need to recognize the basis for many of the errors we, as human beings, make in our everyday lives.
Continue readingShow Me the Money
The most important lesson in medical care comes from a bank robber who stole more than $2 million and spent more than half his life in jail.
Continue readingA True Tipping Point?
From the signing of healthcare reform legislation to the release of final rules for “meaningful use,” events in 2010 are driving toward a true transformation in the delivery of healthcare in the United States.
Continue readingIs “Meaningful Use” Meaningful?
Transformation of healthcare requires a complete disruption of our current system of healthcare delivery.
Continue readingRegulate HIT Tools as Medical Devices? Yes and No
Regulation of HIT tools as medical devices is currently premature. The regulations must be constructed to advance HIT use while simultaneously protecting patients.
Continue readingHealth IT’s Glue
The future of health IT over the next five years is in the development of these “glue” applications that allow the seamless linking of large, robust system, such as EMRs or laboratory applications, so that end users can utilize these tools in a coherent, patient-centric manner.
Continue readingKeynote Adddress at HIMSS 2010 Annual Conference
Our great country is on an unsustainable healthcare cost curve that threatens our ability to bounce back from the severe economic challenges we now face.
Continue readingNews from HIMSS 2010 Annual Conference
The strength of HIMSS is in its diversity.
Continue readingRaison d’Être
The raison d’être of health IT includes four key items: 1) enhance patient safety, 2) improve quality of care, 3) foster greater accessibility, and 4) facilitate a reduction in medical costs.
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