http://www.zdnet.com/blog/healthcare/rss en-us The key to protecting privacy is to eliminate the motive for violating it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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