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Why You Will Soon Get Access to Your Health Information

by francine 01.11.2010

A few years ago, my partners in AHITA.org ( a non-profit organized to help providers implement EHRs)  and I implemented an electronic health record in a physician practice. Along the way, we evaluated every major product and discussed with the physicians in the practice what they needed and how to examine their workflows to automate.  [...]

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British Doctors and Patients Refute Lies About NHS

by francine 09.14.2009

Dear Senator Kerry, Your reported call for “lies” about health care reform to be refuted is essential and requires an urgent response. To that end, may we – British health professionals and patients – respectfully expose those “lies” which are about our National Health Service, a service which our experience shows to work successfully for [...]

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Frank Luntz is Back with Doublespeak About Health Care Reform

by francine 05.08.2009

Senator Merkin from Oregon wrote a piece in the Huffington Post yesterday that deserves your attention. You have to be concerned enough to remember when Frank Luntz, noted Republican pollster, drove all honest people crazy by turning English into Doublespeak and twisting words so they didn’t mean what we thought they did. Sen. Merkin says [...]

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Twitter, Morning Joe, and the Health Care Conversation

by francine 04.19.2009

Image via Wikipedia Relying on a story from the Pew Research Center for People and the Press, Joe Scarborough called Obama the most polarizing President of our times on Twitter Friday. Because I have an empty life, most of which is frittered away on Twitter (I’m being sarcastic) I followed the conversation over the weekend, [...]

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