Category Archives: EHR Workflow

My Virtual Graduate Degree in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing

Besides “real” degrees in Accountancy, Industrial Engineering, Intelligent Systems and Medicine (among which I have great fun exploring connections), I have an additional “virtual” graduate degree. I’ve not mentioned it here, because, well, until recently I hadn’t really noodled how it fits into this blog’s brand: EHR Workflow Management Systems. I think I figured it out. I’ll [...]

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“Workflow’s Unique Contribution to Healthcare”: Let’s Make These Quotes from 1996 Come True Before 2016

It’s a truism in healthcare IT that we lag behind automation progress in other industries. Why can’t we access patient data anywhere as securely as we check our bank accounts? Why can’t EHRs be as easy to use as consumer electronics? Highly automated factories produce much more today with many fewer resources, why can’t healthcare [...]

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Hold Onto Your Hats: BPM in Healthcare is Taking Off!

I’ve been writing, presenting, blogging, and tweeting about HIT / EHR workflow management systems and business process management (BPM) for more than a decade. My 2003 white paper has been number one in Google for “EMR” and “workflow” for years (now watch it drop like a rock!). Also see Well Understood, Consistently Executed, Adaptively Resilient, [...]

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Paper & Video: EHR Business Process Management: From Process Mining to Process Improvement to Process Usability

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Update (2/20/12): as promised here are the proceedings paper and narrated slide video.
I’m presenting “EHR Business Process Management: From Process Mining to Process Improvement to Process Usability” this upcoming Monday, February 20, at the Healthcare Systems Process Improvement Conference in Las Vegas. Here’s the abstract. (I’ll add a link to the associated proceedings [...]

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Twitter 1 Blog 0: Haven’t Posted For a While, But You Can Find Me on Twitter

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I haven’t posted here for a while. I’ve got a lots of ideas for future posts, plus drafts I need to get around to polishing and publishing. In the mean time, Twitter sure is fun and I’ve met some great folks there with similar interests.
Ironic that I started tweeting to get attract traffic to [...]

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