Clinical Decision Support (CDS) is an important element in improving health care delivery. Given the dramatic variation in health care costs from one locale to another (the Dartmouth Atlas experience), prompting rank-and-file physicians with standard-of-care guidelines (one way of implementing CDS), at the point of...

One of the central features in the emerging national policy around Health Information Technology (HIT) is the need to connect everyone together in a way that is both seamless but also secure and private.

Last week, I was ill. I was coughing, sweating, aching, spinning, you name it. With a whole mess of sickness flowing through my immune system, I had little to no energy left to be my ol’ self. I haven’t been this sick in a long...

A little over a year ago, Practice Fusion started the national Certified Consultant Network to help medical practices implement an electronic health record with on-site help. It consists of third party consultants who provide a wide range of services from hardware setup to billing along...

Thanks to some connections at Microsoft I was made aware of some very interesting data that was published on the Windows Azure Data Marketplace by Practice Fusion – de-identified medical records of 5,000 patients. Of course, I had to take a look. What I found...