MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'cerner'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:24:06 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159277&cid=t_185624_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2Fw2QBei4mkwo%2F For years, we’ve heard about how much clinical information is locked away in payer databases. Payers have offered to provide clinical summaries, electronic and otherwise, The problem is, it’s potentially inaccurate clinical information because it’s all based on billing claims. (Don’t believe me? Just ask “E-Patient” Dave de Bronkart.) It is for this reason that I don’t much trust “quality” ratings based on claims data. Just how much of a difference there was between claims data and true clinical data hasn’t been so clear, though. Until today. A paper just published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that searching EMRs with natural-language processing identified up to 12 times the number of pneumonia c... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159277 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:47:57 +0100 5159277 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4747725&cid=t_185624_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2011%2F04%2F19%2Finterview-with-meaningful-use-physician-23%2F Yesterday morning, River Falls Medical Clinic (RFMC) of River Falls, Wisconsin, attested for Meaningful Use at 7:30 a.m. CT. The clinic was one of the very first – in fact, #23 to attest to meaningful use under the Medicare program. The following is an email interview I did with Dr. Tashjian about RFMC’s experience in the meaningful use attestation process. Christopher H. Tashjian, MD is the president of River Falls, Ellsworth & Spring Valley Medical Clinics in Wisconsin. The three clinics provide primary care services as well as specialty consults. How long have you been using EMR? Which EMR do you use? River Falls Medical Clinic, RFMC, implemented Cerner’s Ambulatory EHR in March of 2010 after several years of working with Cerner’s PWPM solution. Did you have to upgrade ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4747725 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:44:16 +0100 4747725 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4552050&cid=t_185624_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F03%2Fon-emr-forensic-evaluation-from-down.html Discussions with ED Directors: Are we on the right track?3.3 Part 3 - Discussions with Software Performance Experts.3.4 Part 4 - Conceptual Data Modelling.3.5 Part 5 - Database Relational Schema and Data Tables.3.6 Part 6 - Coalescing the Analyses of the ER Diagrams, Relational Schemata and Data Tables.3.7 Part 7 - The Integrated Assessment.3.8 Part 8 - Future HIT Regulation Proposals.3.9 Part 9 - Ockham's Razor of Design. Published at the IHI conference, Nov 2010 Washington.I have been reading these sections, and have found the technical sections (parts 4-6) highly informative about a major suspicion I've held for many years.I suspected chaos in the health care IT software engineering process, with inadequate attention to quality, rigor, fine detail, resilience engineering, talent managem... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4552050 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:23:00 +0100 4552050 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4549719&cid=t_185624_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F03%2Fstudy-of-enterprise-health-information.html Discussions with ED Directors: Are we on the right track?3.3 Part 3 - Discussions with Software Performance Experts.3.4 Part 4 - Conceptual Data Modelling.3.5 Part 5 - Database Relational Schema and Data Tables.3.6 Part 6 - Coalescing the Analyses of the ER Diagrams, Relational Schemata and Data Tables.3.7 Part 7 - The Integrated Assessment.3.8 Part 8 - Future HIT Regulation Proposals.3.9 Part 9 - Ockham's Razor of Design. Published at the IHI conference, Nov 2010 Washington.A non-technical but revealing summary from Part 2:Discussions were held with the Directors of 7 Emergency Departments in New South Wales (NSW) public hospitals assessing the impact of the introduction of the FirstNet information system into their Departments. All but one of the Directors has found that th... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4549719 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:33:00 +0100 4549719 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4294782&cid=t_185624_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2010%2F12%2F20%2Fdifferent-methods-to-become-a-top-emr-company%2F A few months ago, the blogger over at Health Finch wrote blog post which analyzes 3 of the top health care IT companies and how they were started. It is very interesting to see the evolution of the large health care IT companies. Here’s the summary of the 3 companies Health Finch looked at: Epic Systems – Started with Scheduling and Billing Cerner – Started as a Laboratory Information System McKesson – Started dong Rx Management As a PS to the post, they point out Epocrates working on the same model with their Epocrates EMR. That is one of the most interesting things I’ve noted when attending the various EMR related conferences that I attend. There’s a whole variety of ways that EMR companies are approaching the market. Another example of this trend is t... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4294782 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:31:09 +0100 4294782 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3969071&cid=t_185624_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2F22Y9qkLZbrI%2F As I mentioned in my previous post about the race to be the first EHR certified (and the first ATCB to certify an EHR), there’s a lot more going on in the battle amongst the EHR certifying bodies. The first interesting detail surrounds the previous CCHIT certified EHR vendors. This turns out to be a really great move by CCHIT. A quick look at CCHIT’s website has 49 EHR products (or modules of products) that have been certified for either the CCHIT 2011 certification or for the Preliminary ARRA certification. That’s 49 pieces of EMR software (a few less since some are different versions of the same product) have paid $22k+ in order to be certified by CCHIT. I’ve talked to one of these EHR vendors and they said that CCHIT did a call with all current vendors and said t... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3969071 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:05:52 +0100 3969071 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3911651&cid=t_185624_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F08%2Fcerners-blitzkrieg-on-london-wheres-raf.html In the Battle of Britain in WW2, the Royal Air Force (RAF) heroically repelled a foreign invasion of the UK.The Supermarine Spitfire, key defense tool in the Battle of Britain. (Worked without major glitches.)Now, the invasion is American, and the battlefield is healthcare...I have often said health IT remains an experimental technology. However, the technology is being inexplicably force-fed with a vengeance to hospitals by IT companies and governments, force-fed with respect to the actual evidence of benefit.In the case of the NPfIT in the UK, we have items such as those below from a 2009 government report "The National Programme for IT in the NHS: Progress since 2006 - Public Accounts Committee." Emphases in italics mine: The termination of Fujitsu's contract has caused uncertainty amon... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3911651 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:46:00 +0100 3911651 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3482862&cid=t_185624_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F04%2Fcorporate-ethics-101-paper-and-website.html On April 16 at "Healthcare IT Corporate Ethics 101: A Strategy for Cerner Corporation to Address the HIT Stimulus Plan" I wrote about a Duke Fuqua School of Business paper (apparently authored by a Cerner official) promoting a business strategy of regulatory manipulation to restrain the free market for HIT products.The paper, and the Fuqua School of Business web page "Past Papers" on which the paper was promoted, have both disappeared as of this April 18 writing.I have posted an image of the "Past Papers" page and updated my link to an archived copy of the paper, but the scrubbing of the Fuqua site and removal of the paper is interesting.-- SSAddendum Apr. 19 -A former HIMSS staffer related to me that I am likely blacklisted from the HIT vendor industry as a result of my writings on health... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3482862 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:35:00 +0100 3482862 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3475768&cid=t_185624_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F04%2Fhealthcare-it-corporate-ethics-101.html I have written on these blog pages that the IT industry has staged an invasion of the healthcare professions.One of these invasions has to do with the ethics of the IT industry at odds with medical ethics and the Hippocratic oath. The HIT industry is characterized by an overarching interest in profits and a relative indifference towards patient harm and human life through sales of inferior products, ultra-aggressive marketing, and legalized suppression of adverse events information about poorly designed, unproven, insecure, experimental health IT medical devices.Worse, the health IT industry is entirely unregulated and has pushed to maintain that status quo.The public is beginning to wake up to the deception regarding at least some of the hazards regarding security and the profound exagge... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3475768 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:11:00 +0100 3475768 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3048067&cid=t_185624_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fwe-are-unable-to-share-documents.html In my post "Academic Freedom and ED EHR's Down Under: Another Update and a Welcome Development" I reported on the Univ. of Sydney's somewhat belated support for academic freedom, and the reappearance of an essay on ED electronic health records problems in NSW by one of its informatics faculty, Prof. Jon Patrick, after an apparently government-initiated attempt at censorship.A new update of the paper "A Critical Essay on the Deployment of an ED Clinical Information System - Systemic Failure or Bad Luck" version 6, has now been posted by Dr. Patrick at this link on his department's web pages (a direct link at this time to the PDF is here).The press has started to take notice. A piece in the Sydney Morning Herald entitled "Health department accused of censorship" appeared on Nov. 28 here.That... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3048067 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:50:00 +0100 3048067 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3044706&cid=t_185624_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fwe-are-unable-to-share-documents.html In my post "Academic Freedom and ED EHR's Down Under: Another Update and a Welcome Development" I reported on the Univ. of Sydney's somwehat belated support for academic freedom, and the reappearance of an essay on ED electronic health records problems in NSW by one of its informatics faculty, Prof. Jon Patrick, after an apparently government-initiated attempt at censorship.A new update of the paper "A Critical Essay on the Deployment of an ED Clinical Information System - Systemic Failure or Bad Luck" version 6, has now been posted by Dr. Patrick at this link on his department's web pages (a direct link at this time to the PDF is here).The press has started to take notice. A piece in the Sydney Morning Herald entitled "Health department accused of censorship" appeared on Nov. 28 here.That... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3044706 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:50:00 +0100 3044706 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2992671&cid=t_185624_88_f&fid=38153&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ozemedicine.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D832 This report should be sending waves of concerns to both hospital and government administrators who are looking to roll out such systems. Perhaps the vendors need to talk more with clinicians and find out how we work and what we need to be more efficient, not less efficient. The same issue has occurred with Victoria’s PMI system which is less efficient for clerical staff than the previous DOS-based system. Why are the software vendors ignoring the needs of users? To help them out, I have just posted screen shots of my version of an Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) which is designed from a clinician’s point of view and places patient safety and clinical efficiency as it’s prime priorities – see here for the screen shots, and note guys all the speed butto... Oz E Medicine - emergency medicine in Australia blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2992671 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:32:49 +0100 2992671 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2871532&cid=t_185624_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fhealth-it-vendors-trafficking-in.html Of all of the risks regarding electronic health records, the largest is perhaps to privacy and confidentiality, and other civil liberties through the ability of information technology to rapidly duplicate and disseminate massive amounts of data.This duplication and dissemination can be performed in a controlled manner for the betterment of patient and public health, but it can also occur in a harmful manner that serves the interests of others, often without meaningful informed consent by the patients (legal jargon on typical disclosure forms that almost nobody reads or understands does not fall into what I consider "meaningful").This can occur in, for example, the stealing of computers and computer backup disks, tape etc., which seems to be a common occurrence in the news in recent years, ... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2871532 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:06:00 +0100 2871532 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2637801&cid=t_185624_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Fphysicians-down-under-get-direct-about.html Too often, physicians acquiese to demands by hospital executives that they adjust to and use health IT, even if that health IT is flawed. This is despite the fact that liability for patient care resides with the physicians, not the HIT vendor or executives.Several physicians Down Under have had enough:Doctors issue deadly warningDaily Examiner, Grafton, AustraliaDavid Bancroft | 23rd July 2009It seems incredible that a patient record system that aims to improve treatment could kill people [not so incredible to the informed - e.g., see "Bad Informatics Can Kill" - ed.], but that is a claim being made about a new system that is almost certainly going to be introduced into the Grafton Base Hospital next week.Earlier this month, leading health officials from the Lismore Base Hospital wrote to ... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2637801 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:41:00 +0100 2637801 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2314689&cid=t_185624_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F04%2Fsurrealism-at-himss.html CHICAGO—This picture is on display at the HIMSS conference booth of OpenVista developer Medsphere Systems.Cerner doesn't seem to be making many friends here by deciding to skip the exhibition, but still. (Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog) Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2314689 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:46:00 +0100 2314689 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2258328&cid=t_185624_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FI-htBxlmfmA%2F HISTalk did a great job summarizing what this writer found about the new health czar Nancy-Ann DeParle’s ties to healthcare. According to this writer, new health czar Nancy-Ann DeParle has some deep financial ties to the healthcare industry she’s supposed to reform: (1) she is a managing director for an advisory firm whose affiliate converted a non-profit Idaho hospital to a for-profit; (2) as a Cerner board member, she was paid $195K in stock and cash and held around $1 million of CERN shares at the end of 2007; (3) she was on the board of Triad Hospitals and made $1.4 million on its sale; (4) she’s on the board of medical device maker Boston Scientific, paid $160K and holding $400,000 of stock at the end of 2007; (5) she’s on the board of dialysis vendor Davita, paid $194K an... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2258328 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:31:50 +0100 2258328 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2240800&cid=t_185624_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fit-vulnerabilities-highlighted-by.html Bill Gates's company, Microsoft, touts the User Experience as the Sine Qua Non of computing. Billions of dollars have been spent tweaking every little nuance of Windows, with version 7.0 soon to appear. Apple has done likewise with Mac OS X. (The various X-windows managers for Linux, less so). I respect these efforts and use both mainstream OS's in my daily work.In HIT, however, the "user experience" as I outlined in my eight part series starting here is deemed an issue to solve once the sale is made and physicians are scrambling to avoid harming or killing patients. After all, the HIT industry is unregulated, shielded from liability based on the "learned intermediary" doctrine (a.k.a., clinicians are the bank and insurance company for IT vendors, in that they are the creative implementors... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2240800 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:28:00 +0100 2240800 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2232509&cid=t_185624_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fmeet-new-boss-same-as-old-boss-health.html Today we learned that President Obama has announced his new picks for Secretary of Health and Human Services and for Director of the White House Office for Health Reform. The choice of Nancy-Ann DeParle for the latter position raises some issues. The NY Times provides some background:He also named Nancy-Ann DeParle to coordinate health policy for the administration. Her position, counselor to the president and director of the White House Office for Health Reform, is not subject to Senate confirmation.Ms. DeParle was commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Human Services from 1987 to 1989. Under President Bill Clinton, from 1997 to 2000, she was administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, now known as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.Since then, she has gain... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2232509 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:14:00 +0100 2232509 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2232510&cid=t_185624_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fcerner-board-member-as-healthcare-czar.html President Obama has declared that National Electronic Health Records are essential to curing healthcare's ills.From MSNBC:WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will name former Clinton administration health official Nancy-Ann DeParle on Monday to lead the newly created White House Office on Health Reform, a U.S. official said.DeParle, a former administrator of what is now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will lead the White House office charged with coordinating Obama's ambitious healthcare reform efforts with Congress.From the NY Times:WASHINGTON — In picking Nancy-Ann DeParle to champion an overhaul of the nation’s health system, President Obama selected someone with deep roots in the Washington bureaucracy, an intimate familiarity with health policy and respect on both ... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2232510 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:33:00 +0100 2232510 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2222370&cid=t_185624_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FGd5Nwaffsug%2F I’m always happy to have people smarter than me do a guest post on EMR and HIPAA.  There’s far too much going on with Health Care IT for me to be able to cover everything that’s going on.  So, I’d like to thank Randy Pickard for sending in the following guest post about the HITECH stimulus act. There is almost a Kafkaesque quality to the likely short term impact of the stimulus package upon adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems. The passage of the stimulus package will probably serve as a speed bump to EHR adoption until the details of the act have been spelled out. Up until the passage of the stimulus package, adoption of EHR systems has been proceeding slowly but steadily. However, the vaguely defined promise of $17 billion in reimbursements for ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2222370 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:39:05 +0100 2222370 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2187642&cid=t_185624_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F02%2Fmeditech-to-skip-himss.html I may be a week behind on this, but I just saw a Feb. 6 announcement that Medical Information Technology, better known as MEDITECH, has decided to pull out of April's HIMSS conference.According to the company: Participating in the annual HIMSS conference has proven to be beneficial to MEDITECH and LSS through the years, as we have been able to renew acquaintances, attract new customers, and showcase new product offerings there. Nonetheless, the current economic climate mandates we pay particular attention to spending resources wisely this year. Just as we encourage customers to make HCIS selections based on value, we too must carefully evaluate our expenses and focus on priorities. For this reason, MEDITECH and LSS will not attend the HIMSS conference this year. Instead we will use communi... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2187642 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:45:00 +0100 2187642 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2167530&cid=t_185624_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F02%2Fso-why-exactly-will-us-spend-20-billion.html Conclusions and recommendations 1 Recent progress in deploying the new care records systems has been very disappointing, with just six deployments in total during the first five months of 2008-09. The completion date of 2014-15, four years later than originally planned, was forecast before the termination of Fujitsu's contract and must now be in doubt. The arrangements for the South have still not been resolved. The Department and the NHS are working with suppliers and should update the deployment timetables. Given the level of interest in the Programme, the Department should publish an annual report of progress against the timetables and revised forecasts. The report should include updates on actions to resolve the major technical problems with care records systems that are causing seri... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2167530 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:50:00 +0100 2167530 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2163550&cid=t_185624_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F02%2Fso-why-exactly-will-us-spend-20-billion.html Conclusions and recommendations 1 Recent progress in deploying the new care records systems has been very disappointing, with just six deployments in total during the first five months of 2008-09. The completion date of 2014-15, four years later than originally planned, was forecast before the termination of Fujitsu's contract and must now be in doubt. The arrangements for the South have still not been resolved. The Department and the NHS are working with suppliers and should update the deployment timetables. Given the level of interest in the Programme, the Department should publish an annual report of progress against the timetables and revised forecasts. The report should include updates on actions to resolve the major technical problems with care records systems that are causing seri... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2163550 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:50:00 +0100 2163550 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1909419&cid=t_185624_113_f&fid=38130&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tempdev.net%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D233 I recently blogged about American EMR in Europe. This week, I ran across an article on the United Arab Emirates selection of Cerner for the Northern Emirates Ministry of Health. TempDev has partnerships with a number of consulting companies, including a Cerner partner. Turns out the Cerner partner will be involved in the UAE roll-out. One of their senior managers was explaining to me that he sent an email out to his staff here in the states inquiring who would be interested in staffing the UAE project. He was suprised at the number of favorable response. While the UAE is relatively safe as Middle East countries go, the American embassy in Abu Dhabi still releases warnings about Americans in UAE becoming potential terrorist targets. Would you be willing to travel to the UAE to assist with t... Implementing EMRs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1909419 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:14:45 +0100 1909419 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1537821&cid=t_185624_113_f&fid=34636&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rodspace.co.uk%2Fblog%2F2008%2F06%2Fuwe-pioneers-health-training-using-new.html (Source: Informaticopia) Informaticopia blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1537821 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:51:00 +0100 1537821 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1485000&cid=t_185624_113_f&fid=35744&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fe-CareManagement%2F%7E3%2F302413715%2F Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA We’re not. From the Kansas City Business Journal : Google Inc. has approached Cerner Corp. about a partnership, but Cerner officials don’t sound eager to entangle themselves with the Web-search Goliath. That’s because the proposed partnership relates to Google Health, the personal health record site launched earlier in May in beta form. The overture hasn’t led to substantive talks, Cerner President Trace Devanny said, because Cerner doesn’t see much value in Google Health or HealthVault, a similar site that Microsoft Corp. launched in October. Cerner CEO Neal Patterson referred to the sites during a May 23 shareholders meeting as "electronic shoeboxes," requiring consumers to do much of the data importi... e-CareManagement blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1485000 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:06:52 +0100 1485000