New HHS Secretary, rather than singing unabashed praise for EMRs like his predecessors, states the obvious. However, the "solutions" are the usual boilerplate.

In the past, politicians on both sides of the aisle have generally sung unfettered and uncritical praise for electronic medical records and ...

Our ED wait times wil be longer than usual this weekend (and beyond) so we can attend to the computer.

A hospital system, Pinnacle Health, not all that far from me in the Harrisburg, PA area is rolling out EPIC this weekend. The following bann...

Someone wasn't listening to me at my 2012 Keynote to the Health Informatics Society of Australia

In late July 2012 I gave an invited keynote presentation to the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) at the annual Health Informat...

More on uncoupling clinicians from EHR clerical oppression

At my August 6, 2016 post ( link ) I wrote of my belief that "best practices" for EHR evolution call for: ... a return to paper (s...

Weird emails from Independence Blue Cross via its IT outsourcing partners: showing yet more health IT industry trust-destroying incompetence

In the past week I've received two emails that made me highly suspicious of medical/insurance identity theft. The emails came from Indep...

Two recent stories of EHR un-exceptionalism, and a connection to prior HC Renewal posts including my own experiences

The following stories recently appeared in the press about the "un-exceptionalism" (or, I might more accurately state, the negativ...

NY Times/Steve Lohr asks "Why the Economic Payoff From Technology Is So Elusive." The answer in medicine is obvious.

In a June 5, 2016 article, New York Times reporter Steve Lohr ( http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/steve_lohr/inde...