Practice Fusion and the Value of Electronic Health Records
While in Texas recently I took the opportunity to spend time with Practice Fusion, an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) vendor that I’ve covered previously. Practice Fusion is an interesting vendor, providing a free EMR service to physicians. It boasts that its solution is used to manage the records of over 31 million patients across the [...]
Healthcare And Cloud Computing
I am a strong proponent of tapping into the Cloud to solve healthcare problems. Both myself and Zoli, at different instances, have written about Cloud based healthcare initiatives by Google and Microsoft in this blog. Even though the progress on both Google Health and Microsoft Healthvault services are disturbingly slow, we need the big players [...]
India Needs Public Policy And Service Innovation And Not Web 2.0 Companies
The second most populous country with the fourth largest spending power, India, saw a surprising 7.9% YOY GDP growth well above the expectations of 6.3%. The Indian stock market recovered much quicker since the US financial meltdown. In fact one of my friends who oversees sales of a European earthmoving equipments company in India complained [...]
It’s an Innovation Geekfest! AT&T’s Tech Showcase
On Thursday, November 5, I attended the AT&T Technology Showcase in San Francisco. The Tech Showcase presents some of the latest cool inventions coming from AT&T Labs. Imagine a highly professional, well-resourced Maker Faire. AT&T calls the showcase, “The Art of the Possible”, stressing the experimental nature of this stuff. While I’m not actually a [...]
Our Health System Can be Fixed Through Technology, Process and Governance
A little while ago I posted, venting my frustration at the New Zealand health system. One of my friends at IBM New Zealand saw my post and wondered firstly whether my criticisms were justified and secondly what solutions there are that could solve some of the health system woes. She invited a healthcare specialist from [...]
Putting Health Records Online
When I offered my predictions for 2009 on Cloud Computing to Sys-Con Media, I mentioned about how Health 2.0 will pick up steam in 2009. We will see a stronger support towards Health 2.0 with Microsoft and Google leading the way. Any attempt by Obama administration to revamp healthcare will include a Health 2.0 strategy. [...]
