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Bill Clinton: It's 5 minutes 2 midnight for health care in America!
I wouldn't bet against America on healthcare, not because of some US government takeover of the health care system (a meme that is pure fiction), but rather because we STILL HAVE the most resilient entrepreneurial economy that the planet has ever known. I have written often about how American...
HHS & Meaningful Use: Innovation Happens!
The controversy surrounding MU will continue, but if the vendors displaying their ware at the WHIT Conference are a harbinger of things to come, and we believe they are, then innovation is increasing at alarming rate, and those providers that choose to remain on the sidelines waiting for the US...
HHS: New Sheriff in Town?
On October 30, 2009 HHS issued the following release: >> The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued an interim final rule today to conform the enforcement regulations promulgated under the Health Insurance...On October 30, 2009 HHS issued the...
Danger: Smart Government at Work?
A privacy policy, however, is culturally and organizationally complex (i.e. a wicked problem) and historically we have not been so good at solving these kinds of problems. All the really tough problems facing us (and the planet) are wicked problems. We should collectively become more fluent in...
HIT/EHR Implementations are Wicked Problems!
As counter intuitive as fail forward fast may seem (i.e. even more so in the heath care industry where anything that smacks of failure is anathema), this is right prescription but will almost universally not be followed. Why? Because as a society we appear to be hell bent on using engineering...