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AMIA 2009 – Social Neworking and Second Life

I’m currently attending the AMIA 2009 conference. I’ve really enjoyed it so far and it’s proven to be worth the 12 hour plane journey from New Zealand. Just 3 hours after getting off the plane, I was presenting my slides as part of the Social Networking and Second Life workshop with Ed Hammond, Constance Johnson, Parvati [...]

Why Doctors Hate Electronic Medical Records (EMR)

Article by Dr Bill Cast from No More Clipboards, a personal health records company on why doctors hate EMRs: “Today most EHRs and EMRs are invasive both to workflow and finances. While high cost is a significant barrier to physician adoption, workflow disruption remains the killer deterrent. Most proprietary softwares offer a limited palate of practice [...]

Epic Systems EHR on Forbes

Forbes have an article about Epic Systems which is a nice overview of the company: Big name companies like General Electric, Siemens, McKesson and Cerner are rushing to profit from the push to install electronic patient records. But the hottest company in the electronic medical records industry is a secretive Wisconsin outfit called Epic Systems. It does [...]

Register now for m-Health NZ 2009!

It’s time to register for m-Health NZ 2009. We have a great line up of local and international speakers for this one-day conference on 6th November 2009 at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. There’s a huge discount for students, so if you are researching mobile healthcare, this would be a great event for you to [...]

Blogging and Tweeting from HINZ09

The whole team at the National Institute for Health Innovation at the University of Auckland is live-blogging the HINZ 2009 conference in Rotorua, New Zealand. You can see all the blog posts up on our new Health InnoVation Exchange website at: www.hive.org.nz       I’m also doing intermittent tweets using the #hinz09 hashtag.