Comments on: Intelligent Healthcare Information Integration 1/20/10 http://www.histalkpractice.com/2010/01/19/intelligent-healthcare-information-integration-12010/ Physician practice and systems news and opinion Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:10:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Gregg Alexander http://www.histalkpractice.com/2010/01/19/intelligent-healthcare-information-integration-12010/comment-page-1/#comment-978 Gregg Alexander Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:38:11 +0000 http://www.histalkpractice.com/2010/01/19/intelligent-healthcare-information-integration-12010/#comment-978 Cowgirl, I think Evan's years (nearly a decade) helping run his brother's pediatric ophthalmology practice helped him understand that operations and workflow are, at best, difficult to manage optimally for any physician. Be it PDF/H or any other interim step toward helping clinicians move toward digital data management while maintaining daily operations (i.e., seeing the volume of patients necessary,) I'm a fan. Being a doc is tough enough these days. Adding a complete workflow overhaul onto my less geek-oriented colleagues' To Do lists seems counterintuitive. Helping them take steps in the right direction, even if not as fully byte-based as I'd prefer, seems much more likely to eventually achieve the end goals of interoperability and meaningful exchange of clinical data you and I both desire. Cowgirl, I think Evan’s years (nearly a decade) helping run his brother’s pediatric ophthalmology practice helped him understand that operations and workflow are, at best, difficult to manage optimally for any physician. Be it PDF/H or any other interim step toward helping clinicians move toward digital data management while maintaining daily operations (i.e., seeing the volume of patients necessary,) I’m a fan.

Being a doc is tough enough these days. Adding a complete workflow overhaul onto my less geek-oriented colleagues’ To Do lists seems counterintuitive. Helping them take steps in the right direction, even if not as fully byte-based as I’d prefer, seems much more likely to eventually achieve the end goals of interoperability and meaningful exchange of clinical data you and I both desire.

]]> By: Cowgirl in the Dust http://www.histalkpractice.com/2010/01/19/intelligent-healthcare-information-integration-12010/comment-page-1/#comment-975 Cowgirl in the Dust Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:18:52 +0000 http://www.histalkpractice.com/2010/01/19/intelligent-healthcare-information-integration-12010/#comment-975 I'm sure Gregg understands that Evan Steele is taking a contrarian position re EHRs because his product supports the ongoing use of paper as the MD's primary tool for interacting with an "electronic" health record. Will that get us to interoperability and meaningful exchange of clinical data among providers and with patients? Hard to see how those dots connect! I’m sure Gregg understands that Evan Steele is taking a contrarian position re EHRs because his product supports the ongoing use of paper as the MD’s primary tool for interacting with an “electronic” health record. Will that get us to interoperability and meaningful exchange of clinical data among providers and with patients? Hard to see how those dots connect!

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