One challenge that many bloggers face is creating good titles for all of their posts. I usually don’t have too much problem creating one. Although, I have to admit that when I do my weekend Twitter round ups, I often do have a problem coming up with a title. I don’t like them all to be essentially the same. Maybe I’ll just do the top two stories in the title in the future and then say and more… I mostly mention that because of the creative title above.
Ok, enough discussion of blog titles. Let’s get to the meat of the tweets that I found. A number of these are really substantial pieces of news. So, take a look and enjoy.
We’re Dropping Prices Again — EC2, RDS, EMR and ElastiCache – bit.ly/wfKSiK #aws via @jeffbarr
— Amazon Web Services (@awscloud) March 6, 2012
I’m sure many might be wondering why this is in an EMR and health IT roundup. The EMR mentioned in the tweet is not electronic medical record. However, if you love tech, you’ll be amazed at that post. It’s such a great illustration of how what Amazon is doing with EC2 and their other “cloud” services is going to continue lowering the costs for so many internet services.
I like to think about it this way. How many servers are running at maximum capacity all the time? The answer is none of them. In fact, many of them often use some small percentage of what that server could process. So, that means there’s a lot of wasted processing power on servers. I think services like Amazon EC2 create such an interesting model since they have so many fewer wasted resources.
84% of #doctors and nurses say patient care improves with #HealthIT spr.ly/6012r6Op MT @IMREHealthIQ #ptcare #EMR #mhealth #hcsm
— Harry Greenspun, MD (@harrygreenspun) March 7, 2012
Yes, this is a survey by CDW healthcare, but that’s a pretty strong number regardless of who is doing the survey.
@bfm: EMR w/o value focused payment change doesn’t fix anything-and could make things worse-that’s the point. wapo.st/Aum9Qo
— Mike Painter (@paintmd) March 6, 2012
I’ve become more and more annoyed by the way our current payment system causes so many perverse incentives. It really makes me want to find ways to change the system.
Useability, the most overlooked aspect of #EMR selection, implementation & training- not aligning tech to w/ f & bus. need=disaster #HITsm
— Linda Lia (@EMRAnswers) March 5, 2012
It could be the most overlooked. Although, the question we should be asking is why is it overlooked? I think the answer is that it’s not an easy thing to understand during the selection process.
Epocrates To Sell Electronic Health Records Business ow.ly/9s2Ce #in
— Alex Boden (@shalmaneser) March 5, 2012
Nice job by Neil of covering Epocrates selling their EHR software. This is BIG news. Sure we could argue that Epocrates didn’t have the DNA in their company to build and sell EHR. However, this should be a cautionary tale for other EHR vendors trying to enter the market. Of course, entrepreneurs will ignore this caution and enter anyway. That’s why I love entrepreneurship.
An ipad emr saves a life bit.ly/xscid1
— Sriram Patil (@srirampatil) March 5, 2012
This story was passed around on Twitter all week this last week. It probably deserves more than a tweet at the end of a Twitter round up. This is a great story about an iPad EMR saving a life, but it’s also a great story about patient information being available in emergent situations. I’ve met a number of companies that are working on this problem (including My Crisis Records who advertises on one of my sites). I think over the next 5 years we’re going to see a really dramatic change in how an emergency responder addresses a medical situation. I look forward to that day. I believe information is power and I think we can do a lot better getting them the information that will make them more powerful.
Similar to “SUV kills pedestrian”, “iPad emr saves a life” is a bit ridiculous.
Also, if you read the article, maybe the tweet headline should have been “Loud yelling physician saves a life”.
There is no doubt a well connected, easy to use EMR is what we all want…especially if you are inside the Mayo Clinic…is there a better place to have a health issue?