Report from the IERHIO Annual Summit Meeting

Inland Empire Regional Health Information Organization held it’s annual summit meeting this week in Riverside California under the auspices of the RCMA and SBCMS. A live meeting web conference had presenters from Canada, Pennsylvania and Northern California. The group was quite eclectic with different approaches to the challenge of health information data input, storage and exchange. The Department of Public Health of Riverside County was also represented by Janis Neuman M.D. and and Geoffrey Leung M.D They discussed their ongoing projects and needs. Dr Leung recently returned from Taiwan and stated that he wished the U.S. was on a par with Taiwan in regard to health IT. Laura Landry represented the Long Beach Initiative. Their non profit has been funded and they have selected a vendor....

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SUMMIT MEETING IERHIO RIVERSIDE CALIFORNIA

DATE: TUESDAY JANUARY 23 2007TIME: 6:00 PMPLACE: RIVERSIDE SAN BERNARDINO MEDICAL SOCIETY HEADQUARTERSLIVE WEB CONFERENCE: MICROSOST OFFICE LIVE MEETINGAttendees have received email invitation. If you have not received an email invitation and wish to attend send email request to:gmlevinmd@gmail....

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House Keeping Notes

Some of you may have noticed that Health Train Express now has an RSS Feed. The Icon which is orange and located on the right sidebar allows you to "subscribe" to the feed. If you click on the icon (orange) it will pop up the option to subscribe directly to your browser favorite folder, or whatever feed you use. Any time you use your browser you can find and click "Health Train Express" and see the short summary of the latest posting, without remembering urls.If you wish please make comments on the blog. If you have problems doing so, please email me directly at gmlevinmd@gmail.com I have not been getting any commentary since I converted to the new blogger and new title. Perhaps it is a glitch.I look forward to the meeting on January 23 2006. Contact me with suggestions at my email as...

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Posted in: rss feeds,web conferencing

Which Locomotive are you in Front of?

This article in Southern California Physician in early January seemed to juxtapose with the title of my blog. Lytton Smith M.D. categorizes five different locomotives in the "health train express" which threaten to either derail or provide synergy in converting our present health care non-system into an efficient one focused on optimal patient care and outcomes.With his permission I have copied a few key remarks:After 30 years in healthcare, I think of these payment conflicts as locomotives of varying size and power. Each train carries a different constituency.Locomotive No. 1 represents the health plans. Thinking they drive the healthcare train, they charge ahead. Focusing on profits to maintain their stock value causes them to ignore the economics of actually paying for the care they expect...

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Posted in: contracting,health train,locomotives

Amazing factoids from 2006

Brought to you with permission of the AMA. Comments are most welcome.http://www.ama-assn.org:80/amednews/site/facts06....

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