• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

Most Popular Essays from Volume 2

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

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