Essays on Clinical Informatics

2003

Building the national health information infrastructure for personal health, health care services, public health, and research (Oct 1 2003)
Public Response to HL7 Ballot 1: Electronic Health Records (Sept 1 2003)
Key Capabilities of an Electronic Health Record System (Aug 15 2003)
An inventory of publications on computer-based medical records: an update (Aug 1 2003)
Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality (July 15 2003)
Improving Safety with Information Technology (July 1 2003)
The Value of Computerized Physician Order Entry in Ambulatory Settings (June 15 2003)
Evaluating computerised health information systems: hard lessons still to be learnt (June 1 2003)
Use of the Internet and E-mail for Health Care Information (May 15 2003)
A cost-benefit analysis of electronic medical records in primary care (May 1 2003)
Why Wi-Fi? Getting a better connection (Apr 15 2003)
A Clinical Aspect of the Computer-Based Patient Record: Free Text versus Coded Data (Apr 1 2003)
The Open Source Movement (Mar 15 2003)
Electronic Medical Records: Can They Revolutionize Health Care? (Mar 1 2003)
Marriage between nation's largest health care group (Kaiser Permanente) and most advanced technology (Epic Systems) to revolutionize health care (Feb 15 2003)
Medication Safety Tools: Evaluation of Vendor Offerings for Computerized Physician Order Entry and Medication Administration (Feb 1 2003)
A Proposal for Electronic Medical Records in U.S. Primary Care (Jan 15 2003)
EBM: Unmasking the ugly truth (Jan 1 2003)

2002

Bioterror monitoring software offered free to aid health groups (Dec 15 2002)
Return on investment analysis for a computer-based patient record in the outpatient clinic setting (Dec 1 2002)
The Good Side of HIPAA (Nov 15 2002)
RelayHealth webVisitSM Study Results (Nov 1 2002)
If electronic medical records are so great, why aren't family physicians using them? (Oct 15 2002)
Confidentiality issues for medical data miners (Oct 1 2002)
Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response: Use of Information Technologies and Decision Support Systems (Sept 15 2002)
Crossing the Chasm with Information Technology: Bridging the Quality Gap in Health Care (Sept 1 2002)
Medical Privacy - National Standards to Protect the Privacy of Personal Health Information (Aug 15 2002)
The Going Rate on Shrinks -- Big Pharma and the buying of psychiatry (Aug 1 2002)
What your doctor doesn't know could kill you (July 15 2002)
Doctors vs. Geeks (July 1 2002)
Partners Launches Healthcare IT Research Center (June 15 2002)
New study on quality of health information on the web sheds light on methodological problems (June 1 2002)
The American Academy of Family Physicians and Microsoft® Technology Guide: Practice Management Software (May 1 2002)
The Grammar of Cyberia (April 1 2002)
Reflections on the Health Information Management Systems Society 2002 Meeting (Mar 15 2002)
Clinical Information Systems: Achieving the Vision (Mar 1 2002)
Medical Informatics Takes Center Stage with Bush Bioterrorism Agenda (Feb 15 2002)
Pointing the Way: Competencies and Curricula in Health Informatics (Feb 1 2002)
Executive Summary of the Supercourse on Public Health and the Internet (Jan 15 2002)
Computerized Physician Order Entry: A Look at the Vendor Marketplace and Getting Started (Jan 1 2002)

2001

Answering Family Physicians’ Clinical Questions Using Electronic Medical Database (Dec 15 2001)
The Importance of Leadership in the Clinical Information System Implementation Process (Nov 15 2001)
Access to Mobile and Wireless Tools May Improve Patient Care (Nov 1 2001)
Health Online: A Health Information Action Plan for Australia, 2cd Edition (Oct 15 2001)
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement's Technology Assessment Report on Computerized Physician Order Entry (Sept 15 2001)
Making Health Care Safer -- A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices (Sept 1 2001)
Medication Safety Tools: Evaluation of Vendor Offerings (Aug 15 2001)
The eHealth Landscape: A Terrain Map of Emerging Information and Communication Technologies in Health and Health Care (Aug 1 2001)
The First Official Guidance on the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Reality Checks Back In (July 15 2001)
Five Critical Observations about Disease Management Assembling (July 1 2001)
It’s Stupid to Take a History (June 15 2001)
Can We Protect Health Plan and Provider Privacy, Too? Public Agency Health Care Databases and the Public Records Problem (June 1 2001)
The Semantic Web (May 15 2001)
Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (May 1 2001)
Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century (Apr 15 2001)
The Simple Object Access Protocol and an Online Health Information Infrastructure (Apr 1 2001)
Structured Document Entry Survey (Mar 15 2001)
Development of a Model and Comparison of Personal Health Record and Related Health Sites (Mar 1 2001)
Accordant Documents and Quantifies Effectiveness of Its Disease Management Programs (Feb 15 2001)
Preliminary Analysis of HIPAA Privacy Regulations: Information Privacy and Processes (Feb 1 2001)
Survey of Physicians' Experience using a Handheld Drug Reference Guide (Jan 15 2001)
Protecting the Privacy of Patients' Health information: Summary of the Final Regulation (Jan 1 2001)

2000

Healthcare Computer Applications and The problem of Language: A Brief Review (Dec 15 2000)
The Usability of Punched Ballots -- Improving Usability in America's Voting Systems (Dec 1 2000)
Health e-People: The Online Consumer Experience (Nov 15 2000)
Poor Web Site Design Denies Access to Vital Information (Nov 1 2000)
The Five Rights of Effective Patient Care (Oct 15 2000)
BloodLink - A decision support system for blood test ordering (Sep 15 2000)
Networking Health - Prescriptions for the Internet (Sep 1 2000)
Health Insurance Reform: Standards for Electronic Transactions (Aug 15 2000)
Open Source Software in Healthcare (Jul 15 2000)
The Max Model: A Standard Web Site User Model (Jul 1 2000)
Cutting to the Chase: What Physician Executives Need to Know about HIPAA (Jun 15 2000)
Provider Attitudes toward Patient-related E-mail (Jun 1 2000)
Evidence based medicine and information flow in the medical library (May 1 2000)
The CareWave Technology System (Apr 15 2000)
The future of health care and the impact of the Internet (Apr 1 2000)
The impact of culture on technology: How do we create a clinical culture of innovation? (Mar 15 2000)
Using E-mail in Clinical Care: A Practical Approach Combining the best of high tech and high touch (Mar 1 2000)
Report on the Privacy Policies and Practices of Health Web Sites (Feb 15 2000)
E-Health: Putting Health on the Net (February 2000)
Making a Powerful Connection: the Health of the Public and the National Information Infrastructure (Jan 2000)

1999

The Choice of Outpatient CPR's: Questions to Ask (December 1999)
Developing a Systematic Planning Process: Case Study - Catholic Healthcare West (November 1999)
Personalized Health Care Record Information on the Web (October 1999)
All Bets Are On: Physicians are Using and Accepting the Internet! (September 1999)
Best Principles for Health Privacy (August 1999)
HIPAA Update Midyear 1999: A Review of a Seminar by Lee Barrett (July 1999)
The Future of the Internet in Health Care: A Five-Year Forecast (June 1999)
10 Essential Clinical Informatics Skills (May 1999)
Building and Using A Clinical Data Repository (Apr 1999)
Controlling common risks to patient data in a clinical computing environment (Mar 1999)
Prerequisites for a real-time clinical decision support system (Feb 1999)
Advantages of computer-based medical records (Jan 1999)

1998

Grand Challenges in Clinical Informatics (Dec 1998)
User interaction models for knowledge-based clinical decision support systems (Nov 1998)

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Once again, anyone interested in suggesting other topics for consideration (or contributing their own essays) is encouraged to contact me at dean@informatics-review.com

dfs 1 Jan 2003