Author Archives: Merle Bushkin

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →