Finding Health in the US: Healthcare and the Information Economy…..2012

The 2012 version of our exploration of information, IT, Health and Healthcare in the US kicks off this Friday, September 7th at 1:00pm. I’m looking forward to meeting all of you at our first session.

Please check back on this site regularly for class updates, notes and additional information. This years class syllabus will be published later this week. The syllabus will provides course overview, methods of instruction, policies and the all important lecture schedule. In addition, contact information for both myself and Sean Hennessey will be provided.

See you Friday,

Scott

Readings for Friday, 28 September

This Friday we’ll be discussing EHRs, PHRs, and online access to your health records.  The following (short) articles (and blog post) provide some useful background:

http://www.healthcareitnews.com/blog/google-ceo-eyes-national-ehr-database

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/06/is-one-company-about-to-lock-up-the-electronic-medical-records-market/258473/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/zinamoukheiber/2012/04/18/epic-systems-tough-billionaire/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2012/04/18/obamacare-billionaire-what-one-entrepreneurs-rise-says-about-the-future-of-medicine/

http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/06/13/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-meaningful-use/

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1203102