New thoughts on EHR and ARRA money
So, there I was, laying out my plans for 2012. I had started training to become the first person to cross the English Channel on horseback, but I was having difficulty finding a company to sponsor me....
View ArticleHow the Grinch stole healthcare
Not much has changed since I wrote this two years ago…or has it? Every Congressman Down in Congress-ville Liked Health reform a lot…But the Payors, Who lived just North of Congress-ville, Did NOT! The...
View ArticleEHR Incentive Payments: The line forms at the rear
Three AM. A night not fit for man nor beast. Billowing fog roiled out of the steam grates all but obscuring vast sections of the town. I arrived early to secure my place in line—my first tail-gate...
View ArticleThe Physics of EHR
To read and complete this post you may use the following tools; graph paper, compass, protractor, slide ruler, a number two pencil, and a bag of Gummy Bears—from which to snack. The following problem...
View ArticleWill National EHR Work?
I’ve never been mistaken as one who is subtle. Gray is not in my patois. I am guilty of seeing things as right and left and right and wrong. Sometimes I stand alone, sometimes with others, but...
View ArticleHow to push the EHR into the cloud
For those wondering if the fact that I have not written recently is a result of me having mellowed or having found the world more to my liking, not true. I have been busy earning minus points as I...
View ArticleICD-10′s Hidden Cost
The characters on the train into Philadelphia, while never dull, were more interesting than usual this morning. The woman across the aisle from me wore her hair in a style that could be described best...
View ArticlePatient Experience Management is abi-normal
I remember the first time I entered their home I was taken aback by the clutter. Wet leaves and small branches were strewn across the floors and furniture. Black, Hefty trash bags stood against the...
View ArticleEHR’s 5 stages of grief
Being a blogger is not too dissimilar to being a failure’s biographer. Unless you simply repeat the ideas of your contemporaries, good blogging requires a certain avidity to oppugn those who revel in...
View ArticleEHR–“Our Lady of Perpetual Implementations”
“There is no use trying,” said Alice; “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day....
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