Rebooting America’s Health IT Conversation Part 1: Put EHRs in Context

To get its health care infrastruction buildout effort right, the Obama team should think more broadly than EHRs [By David C. Kibbe & Brian Klepper] On December 19th, we published an Open Letter to the Obama Health Team, cautioning the incoming Administration against limiting its Health Information Technology (IT) investments to Electronic Health Records (EHRs). […]

TransVisioning

7 VISIONS to guide the build-out of a new health care system As we move toward a new administration, and our new leaders and their challenges are laid out before us, it is useful to ask ourselves, "Do we know what we want to build?" For health care, I’ve given this question some serious thought […]

An Open Letter to the Obama Health Team

Electronic health records would be the easy-but-wrong emphasis of an Obama health IT effort[By David C. Kibbe & Brian Klepper] It seems likely that the Obama administration and Congress will spend a significant amount on health IT by attaching it as a first-order priority to the fiscal stimulus package. We take the President-elect at his […]

America’s CEOs Set Priorities for the Obama Administration

The Nation’s Most Influential Business Leaders Have Developed Consensus Priorities for America’s FutureThis past Monday and Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal convened an extraordinary conference of about 100 CEOs to develop and recommend issue priorities for the new Administration. (See the participant list here.) This meeting brought together the nation’s industry power players. Several Senators […]

A Simple Thank You

Feedback from a reader about Barack ObamaMy post last week on election of President-elect Obama, positive leadership, and our future drew a large number of responses to the site, pro and con. I share with permission one comment from Susan Karim of Braintree, Massachusetts, with her personal wish for openness as we confront significant challenges […]

The Changes We Need

Renewed energy and enthusiasm are not enough for health care reform. We need a paradigm shift.These are, as the Chinese curse reputedly called them, interesting times. If the burst of new Democratic health care reform proposals is any indication, the fresh breeze of the Obama campaign’s "Yes We Can" optimism is blowing across the nation. […]

President-Elect Obama, Change and Positive Leadership

Good reason to hope Yesterday, a former colleague and fellow child of the 60’s asked me to participate on a HHS consensus group exploring caregiving. I responded, "For many of us who were involved in the 60’s, and saw our worst fears realized in the loss of our great leaders, the war and the terrible […]

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