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This is the blog of the Clinical Informatics R&D group, and the Center for IT Leadership, at Partners Healthcare System, Boston, MA. We will aim to educate, illuminate, entertain, and hopefully...
View ArticleHarvard CME Course on eHealth - stimulated yet?
Please consider joining us for the Harvard Medical CME Course on eHealth: http://tr.im/iyOz... you will be Stimulated!We have a fantastic lineup of local Harvard and national faculty that will help...
View ArticleHL7 Clinical Interoperability Council April 21, 2009
Yesterday I had the good fortune of presenting to the HL7 clinical interoperability Council meeting in Washington DC. What the CIC is responsible for helping is HL7 understand the clinical issues...
View ArticleTestimony on HIT "Meaningful Use" at NCVHS April 28, 2009
The National Committee on Vital and Heath Statistics (NCVHS) Executive Subcommittee special hearing on ‘meaningful use’ as proposed in the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act 2009Panel 2: Meaningful...
View ArticleSupporting Barack Obama for President
This slide show is from last fall when I had the oppotunity to speak on behalf of the Obama Campaign 2008. It was a privilege. Supporting Barack Obama for PresidentView more presentations from bfm.
View ArticleHL7: Clinical Decision Support
This is the presentation made to the CIC (Clinical Interoperability Council) at HL7 in April, 2009, on Clinical Decision Support. HL7: Clinical Decision SupportView more presentations from bfm.
View ArticleThe Clinical Decision Support Consortium
BackgroundElectronic health records (EHRs), when used effectively, can improve the safety and quality of medical care. For maximum benefit, however, EHRs must be paired with clinical decision support...
View ArticleRevisiting the eHealth Code of Ethics
Recently, we held the Harvard CME Course on Patient-centered Care and eHealth: Transforming Health Care Quality. It was a lot of fun (if you will allow the biased point of view!, I was course...
View ArticleReading Google Bundles
Thinking about how to keep up with the Tsunami of reading that I attempt to do I came across "Google Bundles". I use Google Reader as my method to organize news feeds from all sorts of places. This...
View ArticleMIE2009: Medical Informatics Europe
I had the great pleasure of visiting Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzogovina in early September to attend MIE2009: Medical Informatics in a United and Health Europe. It was a terrific conference, put on by Prof...
View ArticleInterview on ehrTV
Recently, I had the pleasure of talking with Dr. Eric Fishman of ehrTV about all things EMR, PHR, clinical decision support, and evidence-based medicine. It's not Hollywood, but was fun to do. Eric is...
View ArticleHarvard School of Public Health: Leadership Strategies for Information...
It is my distinct honor and privilege to be involved in directing a module for this course at HSPH. We have been very fortunate in assembling a stellar lineup of faculty drawn from several Harvard...
View ArticleRegister Early for the AMIA CMIO Boot Camp
The Spring CMIO Boot Camp will take place March 24-27, at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point in Bonita Springs, Fla. Learn more about this exciting new opportunity to achieve meaningful EHR use, designed...
View ArticleHarvard School of Public Health Certificate Program in Health IT
Second time offered: 2011 Leadership Strategies for Information Technology in Health Care at HSPHDirected by friends and colleagues John Glaser (Module 1), John Halamka (Module 2), Ashish Jha (Module...
View ArticlePatient-Centered Computing and eHealth: Transforming Healthcare Quality
May 6–8, 2011, Boston Sheraton Hotel, Boston, MA Brief Course Description This practical course presents best practices in patient-centered computing and eHealth using a format that will enable...
View ArticleHarvard CME Course: Patient-centered Computing and eHealth -- Transforming...
It has been terrific fun to be with all students and faculty at this year's course -- thanks all, and Happy Mother's Day.See tweetstream summary of course #pcehealth11 at http://bit.ly/inxozL, and...
View ArticleH@cking Medicine at MIT
Folks, posting for a friend to promote what sounds like a great conference: H@cking Medicine at MIT We are proud to announce Hacking Medicine, the first event of its kind. Engineers, scientists,...
View Article2012 Patient-centered Computing and eHealth: Transforming Healthcare Quality
We are pleased to announce that theClinical Informatics Research & Development group (CIRD) at Partners HealthCare System, and the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham...
View ArticleHarvard CME Course on EMR, PHR, Meaningful Use -> Health Care Transformation
2012 Patient-centered Computing and eHealth: Transforming Healthcare QualityWe are pleased to announce that the Clinical Informatics Research & Development group (CIRD) at Partners HealthCare...
View ArticleCancellation: 2012 Patient-centered eHealth Course
Folks, Given our low registration count to date, and low corporate sponsorships to date, I have made the difficult decision to cancel our HMS CME Course for 2012. We are unlikely to garner any more...
View ArticleBeatles Songs for Health Information Technology (HIT, EMR, CPOE)
I've recently discovered that the song medley performed at my opening session during HIMSS 2006 Annual Symposium may be freely shared (with attribution). This is a set of Beatles classics with words...
View Article"The Why" to be a Clinical Informaticist
Recently, at an informatics meeting it was suggested by a colleague that we all watch a recent TedTalk. I was moved by Simon Sinek's talk on "The Why" -- he eloquently discusses leading with 'the...
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High Velocity Medicine
Moving Toward High Velocity Medicine From The Rock:Where is the wisdom that we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge that we have lost in information? -- T.S. Eliot, 1934 A while back I had a...
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