Key lesson from the NPfIT – The Tony Collins Blog
ComputerWorldUK.com Key lesson from the NPfIT – The Tony Collins Blog Listening to critics is critical to the success of big projects. But has this lesson been learnt? Published 07:56, 20 May 11 A US doctor Scot Silverstein, who has an expertise in clinical IT design, says of the NAO report on the NPfIT that [...]
Kids and Health Care: Using Insurance, Cash and Government Programs to Make Sure Your Children Get the Best Doctors, Hospitals and Treatments Possible
Kids and Health Care: Using Insurance, Cash and Government Programs to Make Sure Your Children Get the Best Doctors, Hospitals and Treatments Possible Review I′m a single mother of two children. We live in a middle class neighborhood just outside of Phoenix. Three months ago, we were one of six families who play in our [...]
IOM Committee on Patient Safety and Health IT, Meeting Two: Institute of Medicine, or Institute of Mediocrity?
In my Jan. 2011 post “Institute of Medicine Committee on Patient Safety and Health Information Technology, and Thoughts on Social Aspects of Health IT Evaluation” I wrote that: The U.S. National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences issued a report in early 2009 on the state of health IT. That study’s report, led [...]
The Sorry State of Listed Health IT Companies in Australia. Pretty Sad!
It really has been a pretty bad time for large Health IT companies in Australia. First we had the well-known collapse of iSoft and its purchase by CSC. Then, right as the death knell of the Australian Listed Companies reporting season we have had the following news: Global Health narrows FY11 loss to $223k Healthcare [...]
What Really is DNA?
The story of DNA keeps becoming curiouser and curiouser. On the one hand the story of DNA might be viewed as sort of the ultimate triumph of the reductionist Western scientific approach. The stuff of life is parsed into smaller and smaller pieces until at last the fundamental molecule is found and the clockwork method [...]
