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Dana Blankenhorn

Dana Blankenhorn
Dana Blankenhorn has been a business journalist since 1978, and has covered technology since 1982. He launched the Interactive Age Daily, the first daily coverage of the Internet to launch with a magazine, in September 1994.

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Covering all areas of medical technology, and the public policies under which they're paid for. From networked systems and electronic medical records to gadgets, breakthroughs, and research.

  • Mistrust of motives hampers health IT

    By Dana Blankenhorn | November 26, 2010, 9:27am PST

    The key to protecting privacy is to eliminate the motive for violating it.

  • Privacy fears slow health IT push

    By Dana Blankenhorn | November 24, 2010, 8:14am PST

    Until we settle on a unique identifier for all personal databases privacy is unachievable.

  • Reform attention turns to business models

    By Dana Blankenhorn | November 23, 2010, 8:02am PST

    We know what works. The only question is what will make it happen, the private sector or the political system.

  • Allscripts has not launched open source medicine

    By Dana Blankenhorn | November 22, 2010, 7:07am PST

    AllScripts did not introduce open source to health IT. It opened an app store.

  • IBM convinced clouds are the way to health

    By Dana Blankenhorn | November 19, 2010, 7:35am PST

    Collecting EMR data on your patients by hand, and turning a hard drive into your file room, is not the future.

  • Can HealthPoint model work in America

    By Dana Blankenhorn | November 18, 2010, 7:43am PST

    It’s sort of an Amway model, only more systematized. The question is whether paranoia over privacy and the qualifications of the outreach staff would ever allow this to go forward in America.

  • MedTera does its best on patient education

    By Dana Blankenhorn | November 17, 2010, 7:51am PST

    MedTera uses a sponsorship business model with publishing metrics to increase patient compliance with medical directives.

  • Medicare hires CSC but with short leash

    By Dana Blankenhorn | November 16, 2010, 9:25am PST

    Berwick signed a short-leash computing contract and appointed a respected reformer to head his innovation unit just before testifying to Congress for the first time since his recess appointment.

  • Autonomy to deliver diagnostic help with or without EMR

    By Dana Blankenhorn | November 15, 2010, 1:00am PST

    Autonomy can leverage your EMR system with decision support or deliver intelligent rules based on its own databases.

  • SureScripts becoming a health ISP

    By Dana Blankenhorn | November 14, 2010, 8:24am PST

    SureScripts will soon deliver Continuity of Care Records (CCRs) on its network and enable secure e-mailing between doctors.

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