Archive for the 'EHRs' Category

What Will Be the Biggest Disruption in Health Care?

August 28, 2007

Will the biggest disruption in health care be an Internet-based health care industry?  We already know that more consumers get answers to their health care questions on a daily basis from the Internet than from their doctors.  But do we think that online tools will evolve enough to allow consumers to organize and make sense [...]

Applying “Rapid Learning” to Behavior Change Science to Transform Health Care

January 28, 2007

I attended a fascinating Health Affairs (www.healthaffairs.org) briefing on “A Rapid-Learning Health System” this past Friday, January 26 here in Washington. The project was led by Lynn Etheridge and Health Affairs and sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (www.rwjf.org), Kaiser Permanente (www.kp.org), and the US Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (www.ahrq.gov).
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