Comments on: News 3/31/10

By: John@Chilmark

John@Chilmark — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:24:49 +0000

I’m with you Inga – have no idea where those 1M customers/users of the MMR PHR are coming from. Their PHR is one of the worst out there according to Chlimark’s research of the PHR market. As to their founder, he is not exactly the most reputable guy in business (or at least that is what I have been told). Google him

By: chromosome

chromosome — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:23:53 +0000

@@@@Of the three executives who have left HIMSS’ employment at the end of March, Dave Garets and Mike Davis will be missed.@@@

Yeah, they are going to work for the advisor company that guides Leapfrog Group, another for profit not for profit that promotes CPOE as an unproven leap off the cliff to death and injury.

By: HIMSS Insider

HIMSS Insider — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:33:48 +0000

CCHIT has no leader! No one is sure when Mark Leavitt, CCHIT Chair, left CCHIT, since Leavitt’s departure plans have not been openly shared at HIMSS.

The only two staff ever listed on the CCHIT “About” page were Mark Leavitt and Alisa Ray. Then their photos mysteriously disappeared last September, but the two bios remained.

Now there is no link to CCHIT staff on their website. CCHIT is a ghost ship with no leader, so the whole HHS “certification” work group is a farce. And there is still no replacement for Mark Leavitt at CCHIT.
http://www.cchit.org/about/organization/staff/

Of the three executives who have left HIMSS’ employment at the end of March, Dave Garets and Mike Davis will be missed. They were well-respected men and straight shooters, who communicated openly with their staff. Very approachable…

We wish them both the best.

By: rejuvenator

rejuvenator — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:15:24 +0000

98,000 is a magic number. It is the made up real truth that Berwick used when writing the IOM report to escalate the need for his company to provide solutions.

“Thomson Reuters claims that more than 98,000 additional patients would survive each year if those patients received the same level of care as ones treated in Top 100 facilities.”

The 23 Everest award winners do not appear to have deployed CPOE systems.The extent of EMR at these hospitals is unknown.

I can sleep at night knowing that once these 23 hospitals deploy currently inferior CPOE systems, thousands more lives will be lost, opening the door for another non profit savior.

By: Michelle W

Michelle W — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:47:59 +0000

#iPad Release: It’s certainly an exciting release, but there are other tablets out there wanting to get in on the action. In my blog yesterday I spoke about one of them that looks like it could give Apple a run for its money (http://www.occampm.com/blog/general/medical-tricorder-ipad/). With 2010 shaping up to be the year of the tablet, it’ll be interesting to see how these devices (if any) play into the following years of EHR implementation.

@Blah: I’ve got a lot of questions regarding your responses to the discussion of Medicare cuts, which I’ve posted over at my blog due to length (http://www.occampm.com/blog/general/reponse-to-histalk-medicare-cuts-discussion/). In brief, I’m unsure as to why you feel the reported 21% cut will not happen tomorrow, and where the figure 23% came from in your response to HISJunkie. Would you please provide a source that asserts that no cuts will indeed happen this year?