Wes Rishel

After reading Health 2.0: Take a Lesson From the Web Peter Basch asked me “exactly what a Provider Health Internet looks like – [and what are] the implications of using it vs. a RHIO / NHIN?” The question has special piquancy because users of EHRs will need to show certain kinds of interoperability to meet [...]

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Believe it or not, this is about the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) and maybe the Health Internet, whatever that turns out to be. But I’ll get back to that.
As discussed in Healthcare 2.0: Better Tweetment? I am on a mission to find concrete value propositions for Health 2.0. By this I mean not the [...]

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In A Singular Opportunity for Health Interoperability I summarized a metaphor based on the Web standards HTTP and HTML which was “get HL7 and other SDOs out of the HTTP business.”
Metaphors gain their power from poetic ambiguity. One of the great things about a metaphor is that it can rally so many folks to believe [...]

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Healthcare SDOs should “get out of the HTTP business, but we still need transport standards.

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Harvard’s plan to mine vaccination and claim data to detect adverse effect is important, despite big problems.

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Negative articles continue to appear implying that incentives in the Stimulus to roll out EHR will lead to a disastrous failure. Here we want to note that there are numerous examples of successful deployment in EHRs and to identify some of the ingredients of those successes.
EHRs today are far from highly-tuned instruments anticipating and meeting the [...]

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I enjoyed Carleen Hawn’s Take Two Aspirin And Tweet Me In The Morning: How Twitter, Facebook, And Other Social Media Are Reshaping Health Care. Not the typical “wall of evidence” from Health Affairs, but numerous well-chosen and credible anecdotes. These make a credible case for at least two advantages for e-enabled healthcare

social network software as [...]

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Congrats to John Halamka on nailing the specifics of the eCW/Dell/Sam’s Club deal in his blog entry Electronic Health Records from Wal-mart. He got a more complete picture than any reporter or analyst I have read, including me.
I wonder, though, if his endorsement is a bit sanguine about the implementation process and the formation of e-enabled [...]

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