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	<title>ICMCC &#187; Blog</title>
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		<title>Conceptual Changes: Data in a Cleaninghouse</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/02/22/conceptual-changes-data-in-a-cleaninghouse/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/02/22/conceptual-changes-data-in-a-cleaninghouse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=13676</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We thought it would be all over. And as was published today, it isn&#8217;t, we still dump paper medical records. We thought we would stop loosing records in the mail or grabbing the wrong pile of documents. Not so. There are still many, too many places where records are kept physically, on paper, in cupboards.
One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 3 February 2010: Questions</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/02/03/observations-3-february-2010-questions/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/02/03/observations-3-february-2010-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=13356</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I come across hundreds of news items a day when selecting the ones that should be posted on the ICMCC Newspage. And sometimes these articles raise questions.

Yesterday The Health Tweeder was announced. An exciting new application to analyze Twitter data.  However, it raises some questions:

How far back goes this surveillance?
Are ReTweets also included?
What is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest: If Air Travel Worked Like Health Care</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/01/20/guest-if-air-travel-worked-like-health-care/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/01/20/guest-if-air-travel-worked-like-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=13117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in September, Jonathan Rauch of the National Journal wrote a terrific (fact-based!) send-up of our archaic, arcane, not-customer-centric healthcare system, titled &#8220;If Air Travel Worked Like Health Care.&#8221; I wish I&#8217;d known about it then, but I only learned of it recently, because a couple called &#8220;The New Altons&#8221; have made a great home-brew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 15 January 2010: Numbers; again</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/01/15/observations-15-january-2010-numbers-again/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/01/15/observations-15-january-2010-numbers-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=13056</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate it when I have to repeat myself, it brings memories of those classic vinyl records and the needle hanging in the same groove. Nevertheless, it seems necessary.
What inspired me to come back to something I have written about before is the title of an article in today&#8217;s e-Health Europe, Half of European doctors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Goal of HIT</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/01/06/the-goal-of-hit/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/01/06/the-goal-of-hit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=12873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of the 2nd decade of the 21st century I would like to share some thoughts with you on my idea about the goals of HIT.
We have grown in many aspects and very rapidly so during the last decade. We rarely spoke, outside a relatively small group of specialists and promoters, about EHRs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Automation in Homecare</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/12/29/automation-in-homecare/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/12/29/automation-in-homecare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working on an paper on automation in homecare I came across a number of older papers that I would like to share with you.

An Overview of the Development of Handy 1, a Rehabilitation Robot to Assist the Severely Disabled
Mobile Robot Command by Man–Machine Co-Operation – Application to Disabled and Elderly People Assistance
Wheelchair Guidance Strategies Using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 17 December 2009: Patient Data Again</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/12/17/observations-17-december-2009-patient-data-again/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/12/17/observations-17-december-2009-patient-data-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=12640</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a lot to write about with all the EHR studies appearing the last couple of days. And I will do so in due course. For now I would like to react to 2 blog articles that were published yesterday,
Health IT: What We Can Learn From Toys ‘R’ Us and Patient control over patient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health IT: To Good to Be True?</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/12/07/health-it-to-good-to-be-true-2/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/12/07/health-it-to-good-to-be-true-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration has made Electronic Medical Records and Health Information Technology a centerpiece of its Health Reform proposals, suggesting that millions of dollars can be saved from fraud, abuse and waste. Administration officials also contend that we may also be able to significantly improve the qualtiy of healthcare through eHealth and other technology solutions. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grateful</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/11/17/grateful/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/11/17/grateful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=12202</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the very first days of ICMCC I have stressed the importance of the delivery of information.
The ICMCC Record Access Portal was a first major effort to make information on a specific subject accessible. This was soon followed by the ICMCC News Page, which intended to become an important source on medical and care ICT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping track</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/11/15/keeping-track/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/11/15/keeping-track/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ICMCC News Page is becoming more and more a source of information on medical and care ICT, not just the place for the latest news.
The site also has a large database with scientific articles, at the moment included in the News Page, but soon to be presented as a separate part of the ICMCC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. Democratic Healthcare Reform Bill Proposal</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/11/05/the-u-s-democratic-healthcare-reform-bill-proposal/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/11/05/the-u-s-democratic-healthcare-reform-bill-proposal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://articles.icmcc.org/?p=12020</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the ICMCC News Page we try to stay out of politics as much as possible. We try to give a good overview of new developments in Health Information Technology, covering both news and scientific articles. Interesting debates are mentioned, we try to give overviews of outcomes of conferences.And we try to make our coverage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journal of Participatory Medicine; congratulations!</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/11/01/journal-of-participatory-medicine-congratulations/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/11/01/journal-of-participatory-medicine-congratulations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=11967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On 21 October I was in hospital with a severe cellulitis, with sometimes sky-high fever and as only participatory aspect making an arm available for the much needed antibiotics drip. Although I am home when writing this I am far from recovered as all this (i.e. 3 serious still open wounds in my left leg) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health 2.0 from a distance, once more</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/10/08/health-2-0-from-a-distance-once-more/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/10/08/health-2-0-from-a-distance-once-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=11799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The fall edition of the Health 2.0 Conference is behind us. And, as usual, I have not been there. You can find a summary of blogposts about the San Francisco edition on the ICMCC News Page.
Like with all previous editions, I stick to my opinion that it has become an industrial show. Revealing, probably without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meaningful use, where is the patient?</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/10/02/meaningful-use-where-is-the-patient/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/10/02/meaningful-use-where-is-the-patient/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.icmcc.org/?p=11621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In March this year the issue of meaningful use appeared in the USA EHR implementation discussion. The ICMCC News Page has an extended overview of meaningful use related articles. In the beginning the discussion was descriptive, not defining. Aspects like e-prescription, interoperability and electronic exchange where considered essential elements (Ryan Ricks, 7 April 2009; John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 Hospital = 220 patients times 15 seconds = 55 minutes saved per day</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/09/30/1-hospital-220-patients-times-15-seconds-55-minutes-saved-per-day/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/09/30/1-hospital-220-patients-times-15-seconds-55-minutes-saved-per-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=11554</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What wouldn&#8217;t we gain in health care if we did the obvious but unusual? For example, collaborating with medical equipment manufacturers in addition to better teamwork?
Imagine the tangible and less tangible profits if a patient spent 15 seconds less in an MRI scanner or radiation treatment device?
Wouldn&#8217;t health care personnel want to waste less time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 29 September 2009: Kennedy takes the wrong turn on EHR</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/09/29/observations-29-september-2009-kennedy-takes-the-wrong-turn-on-ehr/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/09/29/observations-29-september-2009-kennedy-takes-the-wrong-turn-on-ehr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;People Can Opt Out of Listing STDs, Abortions in Gov&#8217;t-Mandated Electronic Health Records, Patrick Kennedy Says&#8221; was the heading of an article in the US CNS News from September 28.
&#8220;So, obviously, for the full effectiveness of the person, it&#8217;s to their benefit to have everything on a record, but it&#8217;s going to be totally up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 30 August 2009: Theft</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/08/30/observations-30-august-2009-theft/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/08/30/observations-30-august-2009-theft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=11063</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[THERE IS NO REASON TO CARRY AROUND ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS, ESPECIALLY NOT IN BULK.
Many stories have been published about breaches in EHR security, hospitals hacked, USB sticks lost, laptops stolen. During the almost 3 years that I am maintaining this news page I did not pay much attention to it as I am convinced that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 28 August 2009</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/08/28/observations-28-august-2009/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/08/28/observations-28-august-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=11026</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I see many news articles and scientific publications pass by every day. And sometimes you come across an article that makes you think that it is not only right to the point, it is also showing you the way. This article that I want to mention now was also a reminder and an eye opener [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 14 August 2009: e-Consults, are they safe?</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/08/14/observations-14-august-2009-e-consults-are-they-safe/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/08/14/observations-14-august-2009-e-consults-are-they-safe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/08/14/observations-14-august-2009-e-consults-are-they-safe/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gathering the news items for the ICMCC News Page I came across this anonymous post &#8220;It&#8217;s a Virtual World Out There &#8211; The New Dawn of Telemedicine&#8220;. And one remark triggered my need to react and post this observation:
&#8220;[...] through reputable websites that specialize in online doctor consultations&#8221;
No example was given, so immediately the question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations: Three Years as Chemo Patient</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/08/11/observations-three-years-as-chemo-patient/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/08/11/observations-three-years-as-chemo-patient/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is three years ago today that I started chemotherapy for a B-cell plasmablastair non Hodgkin cd20 negative.Â  More details you can find here. You can also read there why I publish much less on this blog than I would like.
The treatment turned me from a cancer patient into a chemo patient as I seem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations: EHR, the experience of an English practice</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/07/23/observations-ehr-the-experience-of-an-english-practice/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/07/23/observations-ehr-the-experience-of-an-english-practice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the 2007 ICMCC event, Dr. Amir Hanan presented this excellent paper called: &#8220;Towards a &#8220;Partnership of Trust&#8220;&#8221;. Dr. Hannan, see here a guest article on the ICMCC Blog by Bettine Pluut, is strongly convinced of the benefits of EHRs and the patient&#8217;s access to it. You can find a whole series of Record Access [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 23 June 2009: Declaration</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/06/23/observations-23-june-2009-declaration/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/06/23/observations-23-june-2009-declaration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It had to happen. After weeks of following the discussion &#8220;meaningful use&#8221; it became obvious that the patient should be part of the equation. And it did happen. Yesterday &#8220;A Declaration of Health Data Rights&#8221; was published. And the whole US health IT blog world is buzzing about ownership.
These are the points of the Declaration:

Have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beauty of ICMCC News Page</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/06/19/the-beauty-of-icmcc-news-page/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/06/19/the-beauty-of-icmcc-news-page/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marcel Salathe is the author of an applet that made this rendering. You can see it in action here.

Lodewijk Bos
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		<title>Interoperability Summit: Establishing the Infrastructure for Health Assurance and Disease Prevention, Washington 1-2 June 2009</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/06/13/interoperability-summit-establishing-the-infrastructure-for-health-assurance-and-disease-prevention-washington-1-2-june-2009/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/06/13/interoperability-summit-establishing-the-infrastructure-for-health-assurance-and-disease-prevention-washington-1-2-june-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Establishing infrastructure for health assurance and disease prevention through healthcare transformation was the theme of this invitation-only event. The meeting was sponsored by the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and co-sponsored by all major technical professional societies engaged in health information technology issues, from ethics and standardsâ€¦ to patient care and eHealth. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 25 May 2009 &#8211; about numbers</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/05/25/observations-25-may-2009/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/05/25/observations-25-may-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 18:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was my intention to write an observation today on something remarkable which I already mentioned a couple of months ago:
&#8220;do these studies really have any value at all, looking at the numbers involved?&#8220;.
The reason why I come back to this is because of a publication in Health Data Management, published 1 June, by Howard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 13 May 2009: The Dutch are amazing!!!</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/05/13/observations-13-may-2009-the-dutch-are-amazing/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/05/13/observations-13-may-2009-the-dutch-are-amazing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 07:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am at the WHCC Europe 2009 in Brussels, my first trip since I was really hit by the consequences of my chemotherapy. And it is not easy. Even more, because there is no internet in the rooms, due to a technical problem. And for a handicapped man it would have been much easier to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 8 May 2009</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/05/08/observations-8-may-2009/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/05/08/observations-8-may-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 20:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a relatively quiet week, news-wise talking. Which was to be expected, after HIMSS, WHCC and Health2.0. Most of the news was about meaningful use. It gave me the chance to do some other things. I&#8217;m trying to improve the lay-out of the ICMCC website, which I hopefully will finish by June 1, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Australian National Telemedicine Summit</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/04/30/report-australian-national-telemedicine-summit/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/04/30/report-australian-national-telemedicine-summit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian National Telemedicine Summit was held from 16-17th March 2009 in Sydney. It was organised by the IIR conferences under the theme &#8220;Creating a Viable Alternative to Face-to-Face Medical Care&#8220;. About fifty attendees including decision makers, doctors, nurses and technology experts came from around the country. The meeting was chaired by the ICMCC Vice-President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations from a distance &#8211; Health 2.0 Conference Part 2</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/04/29/observations-from-a-distance-health-20-conference-part-2/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/04/29/observations-from-a-distance-health-20-conference-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Moore in his post Health 2.0: A lot of Hot Air in This Balloon pointed out that
&#8220;Most of the companies on display at Health 2.0 will not be with us in 3 years time.Â There are simply too many companies with too little differentiation, chasing too few dollars with faulty business plans.Â The market is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations from a distance &#8211; Health 2.0 Conference Part 1 (updated 27 April)</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/04/26/observations-from-a-distance-health-20-conference-part-1/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/04/26/observations-from-a-distance-health-20-conference-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me start saying that I have not attended the Health 2.0 Conference in Boston.
This post is an overview of what has been posted about that conference. My reactions based on that output will come later; for now just a small starting remark:
A post at The Health Care Blog on April 23, a combined effort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations WHCC09</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/04/18/whcc09/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/04/18/whcc09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 6th Annual World Health Care Congress is the most prestigious meeting of chief and senior executives from all sectors of health care. The 2009 conference will convene over 2,000 CEOs, senior executives and government officials from the nation&#8217;s largest employers, hospitals, health systems, health plans, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and leading government agencies.
Following are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations &#8211; Standards world is moving</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/04/14/observations-standards-world-is-moving/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/04/14/observations-standards-world-is-moving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 6, Chip Means from Healthcare IT News Europe announced that International healthcare IT standards groups sign agreement, which was done on April 5 at HIMSS.
IHTSDO and HL7 cooperating is a very important move into the good direction, in my opinion. Interoperability is one of the leading issues in how we can and must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations &#8211; Meaningful Use? (updated 14 April)</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/04/13/observations-meaningful-use/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/04/13/observations-meaningful-use/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I wrote the below reaction to the overwhelming number of reactions to Dave &#8220;the e-patients&#8221; experience with Google Health and the interaction with his hospital data.
This morning I was shocked to see, that iHealthBeat had the audacity to announce the story as:
Physicians Raise Concerns About Inaccurate Claims Data in PHRs.
This is right out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations HIMSS09 (updated 15 April)</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/04/08/observations-himss09/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/04/08/observations-himss09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HIMSS09, 900 vendors, over 25,000 visitors.
I updated this on 15 April, with a couple more wrap ups and a podcastÂ  overview and of course videos from Matthew Holt, but also from EHRTV.
Pictures and Blogs
If you, like me, have not been there have a look at pictures on Healthcare IT News or on Medsphere.
Quite a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 4 April 2009 &#8211; Quotes</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/04/04/observations-4-april-2009-quotes/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/04/04/observations-4-april-2009-quotes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a couple of quotes from the past week:
&#8220;A cure is an expected, narrowly defined destination. Healing is a journey with unexpected twists and turns.&#8221;
Health Semantics 101: &#8220;Cure&#8221; vs. &#8220;Heal&#8221;, Jen McCabe Gorman, Health Management Rx, 30 March 2009
&#8220;Family trees are no longer just a display of crazy aunts, cousins thrice removed and great-grandfathers in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Information technology and behavioral medicine: impact on autism treatment &amp; research</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/04/02/information-technology-and-behavioral-medicine-impact-on-autism-treatment-research-2/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/04/02/information-technology-and-behavioral-medicine-impact-on-autism-treatment-research-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is World Autism Awareness Day today. And I use the title of a paper during our first ICMCC Event for this blog entry as a tribute to all those friends who have children with autism, and to my late mentor and friend Swamy Laxminarayan, for whom autism was one of his favorite subjects.
Have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 1 April 2009 &#8211; Shocking revelations</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/04/01/observations-1-april-2009-shocking-revelations/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/04/01/observations-1-april-2009-shocking-revelations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a European I have no access to Google Health or HealthVault. So unfortunately I am not in a position to look at these products myself and judge their quality, usability and all the other issues that would be important to me as a patient.
However, one of the more eloquent and well-known patients in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 30 March 2009 &#8211; The Other NEJM Article</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/03/30/observations-30-march-2009-the-other-nejm-article/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/03/30/observations-30-march-2009-the-other-nejm-article/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dust has settled. The last few days of last week were completely dominated in the US medical IT news by these to articles in the NEJM:
Ashish K. Jha et al., &#8220;Use of Electronic Health Records in U.S. Hospitals&#8221; [4]
and
David Blumenthal, &#8220;Stimulating the Adoption of Health Information Technology&#8221; [5]
I would like to focus on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest: Bettine Pluut: &#8220;Health 2.0 doctor@work: Amir Hannan&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/03/27/guest-bettine-pluut-health-20-doctorwork-amir-hannan/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/03/27/guest-bettine-pluut-health-20-doctorwork-amir-hannan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bettine Pluut is consultant on care innovation at Zenc in The Netherlands, with an emphasis on the effects of EHRs.
Amir Hannan is a General Practitioner working at Haughton Thornley Medical Centres in the UK. He works with an Electronic Health Record (EHR) to which both doctor and patient have access. Through the web-based EHR named [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 25 March 2009</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/03/25/observations-25-march-2009/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/03/25/observations-25-march-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To PHR or Not to PHR. That is Today&#8217;s Question&#8221; by Samantha Werner and Eric Fishman.
A challenging title.
&#8220;Electronic Health Record, can help physicians keep track of the examinations they perform, the prescriptions they provide, and the course of recommended treatment for an ailment.&#8221;
&#8220;Just like an EHR, Personal Health Records, also known as PHRs, can be [...]]]></description>
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