Just a couple of quotes from the past week:
“A cure is an expected, narrowly defined destination. Healing is a journey with unexpected twists and turns.”
Health Semantics 101: “Cure” vs. “Heal”, Jen McCabe Gorman, Health Management Rx, 30 March 2009
“Family trees are no longer just a display of crazy aunts, cousins thrice removed and great-grandfathers in stiff collars. They are also a rich picture of hereditary health risks that genetic testing and traditional consultations between patients and doctors often miss.”
United States government grows a family health tree, helping people trace hand-me-down genetic risks, Cal Woodward, CMAJ, March 31, 2009; 180 (7)
“The system transmitted insurance billing codes to Google Health, not doctors’ diagnoses. And as those in the know are well aware, in our system today, insurance billing codes bear no resemblance to reality.”
Imagine someone had been managing your data, and then you looked, e-Patient Dave, e-Patients.net, 1 April 2009
“Patients can and should be able to access and share their health information. Is it really appropriate, as some have argued, for some doctors or other members of the delivery system to decide if we, as patients, are “qualified’ to have access to our own health information?”
Whose Data is it Anyway ?, Doug Klinger, The Health Care Blog, 1 April 2009
“La ontología es una tecnología que permite hacer todo. Puede representar arquetipos y terminologías y facilitar un único espacio tecnológico o una misma herramienta para datos clínicos.”
(Ontology is a technology that allows to do it all. It can represent archetypes and terminologies and facilitate a single technological area or a tool for clinical data)
Fernández-Breis: “La ontología sirve para hacer de todo”, Pilar Laguna, Diario Médico, 3 April 2009
“I have been involved with LISs and EMRs for decades. I have never seen a request for interoperability with information systems in competing hospitals in an RFP. This is quite simply a matter of market competition. Hospitals don’t want portability of patient information with their competitors.”
Do Hospitals Really Want Interoperable E-Health Records?, Bruce Friedman, Lab Soft News, 3 April 2009
The top 5 articles this week:
- 2009 Call for Papers
- United States government grows a family health tree, helping people trace hand-me-down genetic risks
- The State and Profile of Open Source Projects in health and medical informatics
- Observations 30 March 2009 – The Other NEJM Article
- Wal-Mart + eClinicalWorks Electronic Medical Records | An Odd Couple with Good Intentions
