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Do not mistake chaos for fluidity. Three gazillion dollars have been spent to date implementing EHRs — that’s a bunch of money followed by two zeroes. And the feds are still offering rebates. Just tear off the coupon on the back of the EHR system and mail it to CMS. The speed at which the productivity of [...]
“Dinner’s warm — it’s in the dog.” The phrase above came from my friend’s wife, who said it after he and I came home late from work one night, he having forgotten his promise to call her if we were to be late. Apparently, she hadn’t forgotten his promise. We walked into the kitchen, and [...]
Times are perilous, and they ain’t a-changin. As Europe focuses its attention on whether the Euro will become a collector’s item, and the Middle East eagerly awaits the chance to lower the amount it pays for air conditioning because of the surplus of electricity that will be available from all of Iran’s nuclear reactors, America [...]
The title of the book on the lap of the person sitting next to me was “Cost Justifying Usability”. My cynicism jumped immediately to Def-Con 4. Cost Justifying Usability. Did the author get his inspiration for the title at the Shopping-For-New-Ideas store? Now, before you laugh too hard, recall that many inane ideas make gobs of money, such [...]
I just returned from the Prada show in Milan. Not really — that was the opening line from a piece on NPR. Apparently the runaway hit on the runways a few years ago was high heels, with the emphasis on the notion of high. The following passage comes from the UK Telegraph: The girls looked like [...]
To read and complete this post, you may use the following tools; graph paper, compass, protractor, slide ruler, a number two pencil, and a bag of Gummy Bears from which to snack. The following problem was on the final exam in my 11th grade physics class. Let us give this a shot and then see if we [...]
What could we have done differently, is the question I hear from many of the healthcare executives with whom I speak about the productivity loss resulting from their EHR. My answer, nothing. I am willing to bet that in most cases your EHR was implemented correctly. I am just as willing to bet that the [...]
With EHRs in and going in, here is my take on what we may be facing. To keep the conversation as simple as possible, let us focus just on the EHR and — for the purpose of this discussion — set aside the discussion of Meaningful Use, Certification, and interoperability. EHR we learned, is a [...]
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