The Trouble with Mumps
Say what you want about the big software vendors like Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and others but if you want to peek into an alternative universe of walled gardens look no further than this article in the New York Times about how hard it is to share medical records despite billions spent on electronic medical records […]
Technology in healthcare, a post-Sapphirenow update
As noted here recently, technology is completely revolutionising the healthcare industry. And that was brought home to us forcefully when we attended SAP’s 2014 Sapphirenow conference last week. I had fifteen meetings scheduled at the event, and while there wasn’t much mention of healthcare during the keynotes, seven of my fifteen meetings were healthcare related. […]
Digital Medical Records, A Modest Proposal
For years and years (and years) there has been talk about the digitalization of medical records to enable portability. There are three primary problems that obstruct this vision, the first being a somewhat murky legal and regulatory environment with regard to what are the implications of the many laws dealing with privacy, data, and medical […]
