and how is this different from the value of a specific green piece of paper we all agree has Value.
but is basically just fancy paper?
paper a bunch of people this is valuable.

that said, i hate buying pokemon cards for my son. he gets so excited about them and thinks they are so valuable because this one is a Mega or this one is an Ultra. Its just ink saying that. how does that provide value.

same can be said though for baseball cards, stamps, ART!, really so much in our economy.....

not the SCSI...i can't bear to throw away those cables....god what a pain in the ass they were....

that should have said "lab coat" not "lab connect"....sorry

this reminds me of a story

years ago i was working at a very large, very prestigious hospital in boston. at the time they had no guest wifi. i needed a network connection so i set my laptop on a the nurses workstation and handed her one end of a long network cable and asked her to unplug the printer and plug in my wire. which she promptly did.
i was not in a lab connect, i was in a suit. i didn't know this nurse and she had no idea who i was. she simply removed one cable and plugged in mine.
needless to say, i was stunned.

13 marathons in 5 years, 2 of which were 50 milers, 3 sub 3:00 hours, 5 bostons, 7 bqs, so some running experience...
but thru it all, still a slashdot reader and a nerd....

try Intelligent Medical Objects, IMO
i don't work for them, just know about them.
they do exactly this.

i disagree with the statement "people tend to not value things that they don't think costs them anything".
i went to school basically free. i had to pay 10% of instate costs at a big 10 school.
we grew up poor and it was really the only way i was going without monster loans.
i can tell you i sure valued that education.
i consider the consequences, they are a nice life based on my degree and education.

HIPAA doesn't cover this at all. have you ever read that legislation? as an employee, you agree to allow your employer to see that data.

its not a GPS. it measures ups and downs, steps, its an accelerator..... .

how is this News?

many other healthcare systems are built on mumps, not just VA and EPIC. Notably Meditech is also mumps based, having rolled out of MGH the founders of MT took mumps with them. Judy Faulkner (from epic) then rolled it from MT created epic and drug around mumps with her. IDX (now GE) is also heavily into mumps. its everywhere. here she is talking about using mumps http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150314/MAGAZINE/303149952

the new bread of healthcare apps have pretty much moved away from it.

i own my own domain and its a normal name (e.g. fredjohnson.com or such)
so i get tons of email randomname@fredjohnson.com
recently though i have been receiving legal correspondence from a firm in texas (i'm in mass). its happened a number of times
they send case related info
i keep telling them to stop
they keep sending it.
dipshits.
i know who not to hire as an attorney if i ever need one in texas (god forbid)
 

when does this chart end?

i'm literally going to the gym in like 3 mins to run 10 miles at a 9.0mph.
i have this ? about stress tests generally
to get it down in 3 minute increments they are going to have to max that machine.

to langelgjm's point, my nest connects to my furnace with 2 wires. one is red, the other is white. if you connect the wires, the furnace turns on. if you disconnect them, it turns off. this is not rocket science people.

i agree with all of your points.
connecting your EHR to your lab system, to your HIE, to your practice systems, etc is a mess. HL7 stinks. So things do indeed get missed.
of course, with deliberate, thoughtful deployments, these are solvable problems. it takes time and patience.

and don't get me started on end users. :-) but i do believe they are trying, they are busy, and they didn't go to medical school to deal with systems, but to help people.

Obamacare or ACA did not mandate the use of EHR. This was in legislation long before ACA, it was part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). It was specifically called Meaningful Use. it mandates a series of electronic use requirements over three phases with initially payments for use and later penalties by CMS. The vast majority of MU certified vendors were producing EHRs long before ARRA and have reasonable security in place. Clearly though some vendors, and hospitals need some shoring up though.