Health Innovation

Bridging the Gap Between Personal Health Records and EHRs

By Cora Alisuag – It has only been about two generations since traveling medicine shows were common forums for medical information. Today’s digital age patients still don’t know what is in their medical records. They need transparency, not secret hospital –vendor contracts and data blocking.






A Billion Here..And the New DOD EHR Contract

Everett Dirkson, the Illinois Senator, did not actually say “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you’re talking real money”, although he did say he wished he had. The billions, or $4.3 billion to be exact, that I have been thinking about is the Department of Defense two year contract with Cerner, Accenture Federal and Leidos to provide an EHR to 8 hospitals in the first year and eventually 55 hospitals and 600 clinics.



Information Governance – The Next Round’s on Me.

By Susan Clark – Master data management, data governance, compliance, health information management, and risk management walk into a bar…..Bartender says, “It’s about time you all came to the same watering hole. Now, how about a round of shots of information governance?” In fact, we are late to the party.