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IOM Report 1/9/09 - Computational Technology for Effective Health Care: Immediate Steps and Strategic DirectionsRobert S. Miller, FASCOJan 10, 2009
Wow, hot off the presses today is a landmark report from the National Research Council of the IOM/National Academies. As I post this I have just read the Executive Summary (the whole report is available here), but what...
CPOE does not impact time to enter orders—a time and motion study we didDouglas W. Blayney, MD, FASCOJan 05, 2009
In the University of Michigan Hospital, we went live with the Eclipsys CPOE system in April 2008. My medical informatician colleague, David Hanauer, along with some industrial engineering colleagues, studied the time taken to enter orders before, shortly after, and longer after introduction of CPOE...
Using our Eclipsys inpatient CPOE (computerized physician order entry) systemDouglas W. Blayney, MD, FASCOJan 02, 2009
Rounding with the housestaffIn October, I rounded on the inpatient hematology service for two weeks as the inpatient attending. I was with a heme onc fellow and a clinical pharmacist, and two teams each with a Resident, two Interns, and a medical student. The attending is the...
"...to glimpse medicine’s digital future"Douglas W. Blayney, MD, FASCOJan 01, 2009
Marshfield Clinic's EHR and chronic disease management
EHR should offer information at the point-of-care (and the point of care may move!)Douglas W. Blayney, MD, FASCODec 19, 2008
Information at the Point of Care. (I write this while I'm on vacation, four hours from my home and office). My new patient last week was sent by her oncologist in northern Michigan for an opinion regarding his suspicion that she had Hodgkin lymphoma, recurrent within a year after...
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Drum Beat for govt mandate / monies for Health IT....John V. CoxDec 18, 2008
The post below is from Modern Healthcare..... a significant press lining up strategies for the upcoming year to support the 'transformation' of healthcare with informatics...... We have heard these drums for a while..... Will the next year bring substantial change, or will we remain in the talking...
Industries moving away from paper transactions—examples from this weekDouglas W. Blayney, MD, FASCODec 18, 2008
Three recent examples of industries which are moving from paper-based transactions into the online world:Newspapers moving from print to online

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