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I received a cool looking document last week, the copyright certificate of registration for the EHR Workflow Management Systems survey of features and functions.
A fan of open source and open minds, I license everything on this blog (and we everything on our product website) under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
I essentially registered [...]
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“#HIMSS10” was the hashtag used in tweets about this year’s HIMSS conference in Atlanta, March 1-4. Attendees searched Twitter for #HIMSS10 to follow a gigantic conversation. #HIMSS10, or more precisely the convergence it symbolizes to me, transformed my HIMSS conference experience.
I’ve been coming to HIMSS conferences for ten years. The added social media [...]
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A while ago I proposed the following definition of clinical groupware:
“Intentional care team processes and procedures pertaining to the observation and treatment of patients plus the tools designed to support and facilitate a care team’s work.” (emphasis not in original)
I received a surprising number of suggestions (but: Post! Post!). All food for thought.
I do [...]
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I predict:
Future extensible clinical groupware will coordinate delivery of EHR functionality to teams of users by combining modular components with executable process models whose usability (effectiveness, efficiency, and user satisfaction) will be systematically improved using business process management techniques.
Let’s break this long and complicated sentence into parts, understand them, and then understand the [...]
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Here are the most recent 20 tweets from @EMRGroupware: Auxiliary account used by @chuckwebster for real-time, high-frequency, event-related Twittering (not wishing to flood timelines following @chuckwebster). Next use: HIMSS March 1-4, Atlanta. Feel free to follow and respond to me (temporarily at @EMRGroupware) on Twitter (my replies with links to your tweet should [...]
I do some of my best thinking while watching dogs gambol in the park (for example, see Does Your Pediatric EMR’s Form Follow Function, or Does Its Function Follow Form?).
A couple of days ago I drafted a definition for clinical groupware (Clinical Groupware: A Definition). There are things I like about it (with respect to the [...]
Short Link: http://j.mp/b9iezM
Last week I highlighted several dozen quotes about groupware, coordination, and workflow, and supplied commentary about their relevance to clinical groupware. This week I thought I’d take a stab at defining “clinical groupware” itself.
But first, what constitutes a good definition?
Southern Rose Buggy Tours
Beaufort, South Carolina
(From my recent vacation there)
While a graduate student in [...]
Bio: Chief Medical Informatics Officer, EncounterPRO Healthcare Resources, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia. About those initials (my mother used to say I was killing myself by degrees): BS, Accountancy, University of Illinois; MD, University of Chicago; MSIE, Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois; MSIS, Intelligent Systems, University of Pittsburgh. (Those are kickbikes.)
