Author Archives: Merle Bushkin
Finally, Mainstream Industry Is Getting Involved In Healthcare and Electronic Medical Records
If you’ve been listening to tech news lately, you’ve heard big announcements from tech conglomerate Apple, and a consortium of corporate giants Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase. They’ve all decided to tackle the problems in our healthcare system … Continue reading
Tips on How to Get Through the Cold & Flu Season
The winter season is cozy and can be filled with wonderful weather. On the other hand, winter season can bring the dreadful gift of cold and flu viruses. If you find yourself at the doctor’s office more than once a … Continue reading
MedKaz® Solves Critical Problems in Delivering Connected Cancer Care
Lifetime patient-controlled record makes health data available to providers, patients and caregivers today, anytime, anywhere Brownsville, VT, November 29, 2016 (Newswire.com) - A report just released by the President’s Cancer Panel, Report to the President, Improving Cancer-Related Outcomes with Connected Health, cites … Continue reading
Ransomware, Interoperability, Power Outages, Natural Disasters, Oh My!
This blog was initially posted on The Health Care Blog on February 25, 2016. It discusses the pressing need for a patient’s complete medical record to be available at the point of care anytime, anywhere—even in the face of ransomware, … Continue reading
Response to ONC’s Proposed 10-Year Roadmap to Interoperability
In June 2014, the Office of the National Coordinator of Healthcare IT (ONC) released “Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A 10-Year Vision to Achieve an Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure. This paper describes ONC’s broad vision and framework for … Continue reading
Interoperability Isn’t a One-Dimensional Problem or an Intellectual Exercise
With all due respect to the thousands of earnest folks spending untold hours meeting and writing papers and blogs about how best to make patient records interoperable, they’ve got it wrong Interoperability isn’t a one-dimensional problem. Neither is it an … Continue reading
A Better Way to Reduce Health Insurance Costs
Last week, the New York Times ran a front-page story about Harvard reducing its health insurance costs by shifting a portion of them to its faculty and other employees. It describes Harvard’s rationale and the angry faculty response. Harvard isn’t … Continue reading
Improving Veterans’ Medical Care Today
Today, I sent the following e-mail to The Honorable Robert McDonald, the newly named Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs, offering MedKaz® as a solution to the VA’s inability to share veterans’ records with military and civilian care providers. The need to … Continue reading
Crises at the Veteran’s Administration
Last week, Congress passed a bill that will allow veterans who have been unable to get VA appointments and live more than 40 miles from a VA facility, to see civilian providers. While we don’t know precisely how many will … Continue reading
Open Letter to ACOs
Dear ACO Executive, If your ACO is like most others, you are struggling to meet two major challenges: how to enable your providers to exchange patient records both among themselves and with providers outside your ACO, and how to increase … Continue reading