Unity Farm Journal - Fifth Week of April 2016
Unpredictable New England weather continues - we’ve had temps in the 70’s and temps below freezing. Hard frosts are tough on ne…
The MACRA Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
This afternoon, the MACRA Notice of Proposed Rulemaking was released. I'll publish a comprehensive analysis of the 900+ pag…
Being a Cancer Treatment Partner
Recently my wife was asked to advise one of our friends about the process of cancer treatment. As I wrote in my 2011 post abou…
Unity Farm Journal Fourth Week of April 2016
It’s Spring harvest time and we’ve been up at dawn gathering lettuce for delivery to Tilly and Salvy’s in Natick, our local farms…
Protecting Patient Information
In my 20 years as a CIO, my expertise has evolved to include infrastructure provisioning, software architecture, strategic planni…
Unity Farm Journal - Third Week of April 2016
The Spring of 2016 continues to be highly volatile with hot, cold, snow/ice, and wind alternating, sometimes on the same day. …
Assessing Interoperability for MACRA
Dr. Larry Garber, Medical Director for Informatics at Reliant Medical Group penned this response to the HHS request for an asses…
The Primary Care revolution! Getting back to being a country doctor like I dreamed of being!
Who longs for the days of the family doctor having time to spend with you and actually listen to your issues? How about those ho…
Health Care and Data Breaches
This blog post is my 500th article!!! One of the most critical issues in the healthcare field today, for medical providers and f…
Unity Farm Journal - Second Week of April 2016
I’ve returned to Unity Farm after another round of international travel - this week was 48 hours in the UK. It seems that every…
Dispatch from London
I’m in London today with Bob Wachter, Dave deBronkart , Julia Adler Milstein, David Brailer and others working on healthcare IT p…
Health Care and FMLA
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was passed as a federal law in 1993, requiring covered employers to provide employees job…
Introducing Snapchart
Check out this game changer - Snapchart deletes patient information as soon as it’s viewed. What could be more secure than an emp…
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