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		<title>AHA-Erlebnis</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2012/05/03/aha-erlebnis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 15:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not a US citizen, so I can&#8217;t officially react to the latest news from the US patient access front nor put my opinion on the &#8220;protest page&#8220;. What is going on. First see this post from the Healthcare IT News and following see the post my friend e-Patient Dave wrote about it.
When Dave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Post: WHCC – Washington, DC, April 16-18, 2012</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2012/04/20/guest-post-whcc-%e2%80%93-washington-dc-april-16-18-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2012/04/20/guest-post-whcc-%e2%80%93-washington-dc-april-16-18-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/2012/04/20/guest-post-whcc-%e2%80%93-washington-dc-april-16-18-2012/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a public health information technology consulting company, it seemed unusual for STC to attend the recent 9th Annual World Health Care Congress, a three-day conference supported by all major health insurance companies, clinical provider networks, and emerging Accountable Care Organizations. The attendee list reads like a who’s who of the health care industry, all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glad to be Dutch</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2012/03/26/glad-to-be-dutch/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2012/03/26/glad-to-be-dutch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=23968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I had a mail in my inbox from my good friend e-patient Dave. He brought to my attention a new blog post he produced over the weekend. Dave was the one who initiated the phrase &#8220;Give me my damn data&#8220;.
He knows that this site is about health informatics and its social, societal and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help a friend!</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2012/02/13/help-a-friend/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2012/02/13/help-a-friend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=23613</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On February 13 I received a mail from my friend Dave deBronkart, better known as @epatientdave. In that mail he informed me about his recently diagnosis with skin cancer. And that he wanted to use the powers of modern communication to find the best treatment, if possible for an affordable price (Request for Proposals).
He reminded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Watson, what made me sick?</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2012/01/30/what-made-me-sick/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2012/01/30/what-made-me-sick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=23463</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[IBM and WellPoint produced a couple of weeks an infographic in their &#8220;Watson in Healthcare&#8221; series, titled What makes you sick?
How can one simplify things? An essential part of their post:

Watson is often predicted as a good tool in personalized medicine. The above reminded me of my own recent past as a patient. 6 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ICMCC Guest Post: 3 Implementations of RFID in Healthcare</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2011/10/28/icmcc-guest-post-3-implementations-of-rfid-in-healthcare/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2011/10/28/icmcc-guest-post-3-implementations-of-rfid-in-healthcare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=22473</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[RFID is quickly becoming a household subject in today’s technological world. You can’t seem to go anywhere without running into some form of it. Whether it is re-branded as NFC (Near Field Communication) as with the Google Wallet, passive RFID tags such as those used in many libraries, or active RFID tags being used for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juggling Numbers</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2011/10/20/juggling-numbers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2011/10/20/juggling-numbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=22372</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As our regular visitors know, the ICMCC News Page provides you with recent news on Health Information Technology. And with an average of more than 2,500 unique visitors per day from over 150 countries the News Page is one of the best viewed news sources. So we provide a preview from and links to work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ICMCC Guest post: Patient access to GP electronic health records</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2011/08/09/guest-post-patient-access-to-gp-electronic-health-records/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2011/08/09/guest-post-patient-access-to-gp-electronic-health-records/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=21397</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Amir Hannan is GP in the UK and one of the first who started giving his patients full access to their medical records. During the ICMCC Event 2007 he presented the concept of a &#8220;Partnership of Trust&#8220;. He published about his work, links to those articles are here. I am proud to present some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of standards</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2011/06/24/the-importance-of-standards/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2011/06/24/the-importance-of-standards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 06:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What made me so jubilant in my previous post about the fact that the NLM launched MedlinePlus Connect? A remark from my friend @epatientdave, the observation of various other news items covering the launch as well as Prof Sarkar&#8217;s blog post made me realize that I should spend some more words on it.
Standards and ontologies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally!!!!!!</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2011/06/21/finally/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2011/06/21/finally/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=20794</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Make my day!!
MedlinePlus brings together information from NIH, other federal agencies, and reputable health information providers. MedlinePlus covers a wide range of health conditions and wellness issues, and includes key resources to inform patients about their health.
MedlinePlus Connect accepts the coding standards already in the organization’s system, such as ICD-9-CM, SNOMED CT CORE Problem List [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OMG! Worse than the Dutch?</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2011/06/14/omg-worse-than-the-dutch/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2011/06/14/omg-worse-than-the-dutch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=20690</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the Dutch started creating an EHR over a decade and a half ago, primary care providers soon saw the benefits of electronic records over  paper ones, resulting in the Netherlands having one of the highest  adoption rated worldwide amongst PCPs. However, they did not consider the patient as en essential part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disaster consequences – digital questions</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2011/03/25/disaster-consequences-digital-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2011/03/25/disaster-consequences-digital-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/2011/03/25/disaster-consequences-digital-questions/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Articles are appearing about the necessity of EHRs in disaster situations like Japan. And of course, they are right when mentioning the fact that having digital records might immensely help chronically diseased and elderly being able to continue their proper care. This is all based on the fact that a major disaster destroys paper records.
However, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations: Q.E.D.</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/07/23/observations-q-e-d/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/07/23/observations-q-e-d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=16490</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of years there have been a couple of issues I have been repeating time and again. Two articles this week showed that my emphasis and endurance were correct. As there are too many to quote here, you can run through my speeches or my blogs if you want to read my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Blog: Significant Strides Occurring in Modernization of Public Health IT</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/07/07/guest-blog-significant-strides-occurring-in-modernization-of-public-health-it/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/07/07/guest-blog-significant-strides-occurring-in-modernization-of-public-health-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=16201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the ICMCC website we try to give space to people who have a clear opinion or vision on health information technology and might help to  enhance discussions in the area of compunetics. Today I am happy to  present a writing by Michael L. Popovich, CEO of STC and V-P of ICMCC. Mike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ICMCC site: 65,000</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/07/03/icmcc-site-65000/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/07/03/icmcc-site-65000/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=16147</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On July 2 we welcomed the 65,000th visitor on the ICMCC website, that is, in 2010!!! And on July 3 we will pass the 4,500,000 hits, also just this year. I would like to thank all our visitors, you make the work worth while. And apparently you think so too, as this year&#8217;s average shows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations: Eye Opening Issues</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/06/21/observations-eye-opening-issues/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/06/21/observations-eye-opening-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=15897</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The part on HONcode has been edited and phrased more precisely (22 June 2010).
Some published titles last week: &#8220;Public Still Pretty Clueless About Electronic Medical Records&#8220;, &#8220;Millions have online medical records ‘without knowing it’&#8220;, &#8220;esalud en  España, según datos recogidos por la Fundación Telefónica&#8221; (eHealth in Spain, according to data gathered by the Fundación [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A President’s thoughts</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/06/04/presidents-thoughts/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/06/04/presidents-thoughts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=15686</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m preparing the President&#8217;s address for the upcoming ICMCC annual event, next week in London. Today it is 6 years ago we closed our very first event and decided to create our foundation, not knowing what, 6 years later, the consequence would be. The annual events, and the proceedings going with it, have become important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(m)e-patient</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/05/12/me-patient/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/05/12/me-patient/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 08:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=15276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Time flies. During the last couple of years the word e-patient has become very common amongst people advertising Health 2.0. On 10 May I was invited for a tweet up (in French) by Denise Silber. I was announced as e-patient. Not as ICMCC president, but as e-patient. Friends of mine told me last week they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What about hospitals?</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/05/04/what-about-hospitals/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/05/04/what-about-hospitals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 21:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=15118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Paul Roemer, who had a contribution on the ICMCC blog on April 30, which was viewed more than 600 times, produced another great article on his blog, this time about the business model of hospitals:
The large provider business model is dying.  Play along with me for a  minute.  How many different services and procedures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Blog: Why Google, Apple &amp; Microsoft will win the EMR battle</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/04/30/guest-blog-why-google-apple-microsoft-will-win-the-emr-battle/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/04/30/guest-blog-why-google-apple-microsoft-will-win-the-emr-battle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=15047</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the ICMCC website we try to give space to people who have a clear opinion or vision on health information technology and might help to enhance discussions in the area of compunetics. Today I am happy to present a writing by Paul Roemer, which struck me by its magnificent vision on what the future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe’s Health 2.0</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/04/10/europes-health-2-0/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/04/10/europes-health-2-0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://patientra.icmcc.org/?p=14657</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week was the first European version of the Health 2.0 conference. And there seem to be quite some misconceptions about the state-of-the-art on Health 2.0 in Europe.
Unfortunately there is little outcome yet, like blogs, reports etc. There is an overview of all the tweets made during the event and Denise Silber, organizer of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go Google Go!</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/03/26/go-google-go/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/03/26/go-google-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been very outspoken in the past and still am about PHRs.
A PHR is an American invention that IMHO serves no purpose whatsoever.  It only brings lots more work (especially for the patient), will by definition double everything as every piece of information will be stored at least in 2 locations, the EMR/EHR [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The way to solve a problem is to make it bigger</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/03/21/the-way-to-solve-a-problem-is-to-make-it-bigger/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/03/21/the-way-to-solve-a-problem-is-to-make-it-bigger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=14126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Famous last words? It was said by Ilias Iakovidis during the European Barcelona meeting WoHIT. It was the same event where HIMSS announced that they are definitely getting into Europe. I know, it is not fair and not scientific to combine these two things, but what is happening in Barcelona has me seriously worried.
There is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conceptual Changes: Data in a Cleaninghouse</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/02/22/conceptual-changes-data-in-a-cleaninghouse/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/02/22/conceptual-changes-data-in-a-cleaninghouse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=13676</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We thought it would be all over. And as was published today, it isn&#8217;t, we still dump paper medical records. We thought we would stop loosing records in the mail or grabbing the wrong pile of documents. Not so. There are still many, too many places where records are kept physically, on paper, in cupboards.
One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 3 February 2010: Questions</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/02/03/observations-3-february-2010-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/02/03/observations-3-february-2010-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=13356</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I come across hundreds of news items a day when selecting the ones that should be posted on the ICMCC Newspage. And sometimes these articles raise questions.

Yesterday The Health Tweeder was announced. An exciting new application to analyze Twitter data.  However, it raises some questions:

How far back goes this surveillance?
Are ReTweets also included?
What is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest: If Air Travel Worked Like Health Care</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/01/20/guest-if-air-travel-worked-like-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/01/20/guest-if-air-travel-worked-like-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=13117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in September, Jonathan Rauch of the National Journal wrote a terrific (fact-based!) send-up of our archaic, arcane, not-customer-centric healthcare system, titled &#8220;If Air Travel Worked Like Health Care.&#8221; I wish I&#8217;d known about it then, but I only learned of it recently, because a couple called &#8220;The New Altons&#8221; have made a great home-brew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 15 January 2010: Numbers; again</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/01/15/observations-15-january-2010-numbers-again/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/01/15/observations-15-january-2010-numbers-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=13056</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate it when I have to repeat myself, it brings memories of those classic vinyl records and the needle hanging in the same groove. Nevertheless, it seems necessary.
What inspired me to come back to something I have written about before is the title of an article in today&#8217;s e-Health Europe, Half of European doctors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Goal of HIT</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/01/06/the-goal-of-hit/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2010/01/06/the-goal-of-hit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=12873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of the 2nd decade of the 21st century I would like to share some thoughts with you on my idea about the goals of HIT.
We have grown in many aspects and very rapidly so during the last decade. We rarely spoke, outside a relatively small group of specialists and promoters, about EHRs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Automation in Homecare</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/12/29/automation-in-homecare/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/12/29/automation-in-homecare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/12/29/automation-in-homecare/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Working on an paper on automation in homecare I came across a number of older papers that I would like to share with you.

An Overview of the Development of Handy 1, a Rehabilitation Robot to Assist the Severely Disabled
Mobile Robot Command by Man–Machine Co-Operation – Application to Disabled and Elderly People Assistance
Wheelchair Guidance Strategies Using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 17 December 2009: Patient Data Again</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/12/17/observations-17-december-2009-patient-data-again/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/12/17/observations-17-december-2009-patient-data-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=12640</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a lot to write about with all the EHR studies appearing the last couple of days. And I will do so in due course. For now I would like to react to 2 blog articles that were published yesterday,
Health IT: What We Can Learn From Toys ‘R’ Us and Patient control over patient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health IT: To Good to Be True?</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/12/07/health-it-to-good-to-be-true-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/12/07/health-it-to-good-to-be-true-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/12/07/health-it-to-good-to-be-true-2/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration has made Electronic Medical Records and Health Information Technology a centerpiece of its Health Reform proposals, suggesting that millions of dollars can be saved from fraud, abuse and waste. Administration officials also contend that we may also be able to significantly improve the qualtiy of healthcare through eHealth and other technology solutions. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grateful</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/11/17/grateful/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/11/17/grateful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=12202</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the very first days of ICMCC I have stressed the importance of the delivery of information.
The ICMCC Record Access Portal was a first major effort to make information on a specific subject accessible. This was soon followed by the ICMCC News Page, which intended to become an important source on medical and care ICT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping track</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/11/15/keeping-track/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/11/15/keeping-track/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/11/15/keeping-track/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The ICMCC News Page is becoming more and more a source of information on medical and care ICT, not just the place for the latest news.
The site also has a large database with scientific articles, at the moment included in the News Page, but soon to be presented as a separate part of the ICMCC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. Democratic Healthcare Reform Bill Proposal</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/11/05/the-u-s-democratic-healthcare-reform-bill-proposal/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/11/05/the-u-s-democratic-healthcare-reform-bill-proposal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://articles.icmcc.org/?p=12020</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the ICMCC News Page we try to stay out of politics as much as possible. We try to give a good overview of new developments in Health Information Technology, covering both news and scientific articles. Interesting debates are mentioned, we try to give overviews of outcomes of conferences.And we try to make our coverage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journal of Participatory Medicine; congratulations!</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/11/01/journal-of-participatory-medicine-congratulations/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/11/01/journal-of-participatory-medicine-congratulations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=11967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On 21 October I was in hospital with a severe cellulitis, with sometimes sky-high fever and as only participatory aspect making an arm available for the much needed antibiotics drip. Although I am home when writing this I am far from recovered as all this (i.e. 3 serious still open wounds in my left leg) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health 2.0 from a distance, once more</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/10/08/health-2-0-from-a-distance-once-more/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/10/08/health-2-0-from-a-distance-once-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=11799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The fall edition of the Health 2.0 Conference is behind us. And, as usual, I have not been there. You can find a summary of blogposts about the San Francisco edition on the ICMCC News Page.
Like with all previous editions, I stick to my opinion that it has become an industrial show. Revealing, probably without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meaningful use, where is the patient?</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/10/02/meaningful-use-where-is-the-patient/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/10/02/meaningful-use-where-is-the-patient/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.icmcc.org/?p=11621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In March this year the issue of meaningful use appeared in the USA EHR implementation discussion. The ICMCC News Page has an extended overview of meaningful use related articles. In the beginning the discussion was descriptive, not defining. Aspects like e-prescription, interoperability and electronic exchange where considered essential elements (Ryan Ricks, 7 April 2009; John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 Hospital = 220 patients times 15 seconds = 55 minutes saved per day</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/09/30/1-hospital-220-patients-times-15-seconds-55-minutes-saved-per-day/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/09/30/1-hospital-220-patients-times-15-seconds-55-minutes-saved-per-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=11554</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What wouldn&#8217;t we gain in health care if we did the obvious but unusual? For example, collaborating with medical equipment manufacturers in addition to better teamwork?
Imagine the tangible and less tangible profits if a patient spent 15 seconds less in an MRI scanner or radiation treatment device?
Wouldn&#8217;t health care personnel want to waste less time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 29 September 2009: Kennedy takes the wrong turn on EHR</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/09/29/observations-29-september-2009-kennedy-takes-the-wrong-turn-on-ehr/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/09/29/observations-29-september-2009-kennedy-takes-the-wrong-turn-on-ehr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=11524</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;People Can Opt Out of Listing STDs, Abortions in Gov&#8217;t-Mandated Electronic Health Records, Patrick Kennedy Says&#8221; was the heading of an article in the US CNS News from September 28.
&#8220;So, obviously, for the full effectiveness of the person, it&#8217;s to their benefit to have everything on a record, but it&#8217;s going to be totally up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 30 August 2009: Theft</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/08/30/observations-30-august-2009-theft/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/08/30/observations-30-august-2009-theft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=11063</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[THERE IS NO REASON TO CARRY AROUND ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS, ESPECIALLY NOT IN BULK.
Many stories have been published about breaches in EHR security, hospitals hacked, USB sticks lost, laptops stolen. During the almost 3 years that I am maintaining this news page I did not pay much attention to it as I am convinced that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 28 August 2009</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/08/28/observations-28-august-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/08/28/observations-28-august-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=11026</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I see many news articles and scientific publications pass by every day. And sometimes you come across an article that makes you think that it is not only right to the point, it is also showing you the way. This article that I want to mention now was also a reminder and an eye opener [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 14 August 2009: e-Consults, are they safe?</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/08/14/observations-14-august-2009-e-consults-are-they-safe/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/08/14/observations-14-august-2009-e-consults-are-they-safe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/08/14/observations-14-august-2009-e-consults-are-they-safe/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gathering the news items for the ICMCC News Page I came across this anonymous post &#8220;It&#8217;s a Virtual World Out There &#8211; The New Dawn of Telemedicine&#8220;. And one remark triggered my need to react and post this observation:
&#8220;[...] through reputable websites that specialize in online doctor consultations&#8221;
No example was given, so immediately the question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations: Three Years as Chemo Patient</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/08/11/observations-three-years-as-chemo-patient/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/08/11/observations-three-years-as-chemo-patient/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.icmcc.org/?p=10666</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is three years ago today that I started chemotherapy for a B-cell plasmablastair non Hodgkin cd20 negative.Â  More details you can find here. You can also read there why I publish much less on this blog than I would like.
The treatment turned me from a cancer patient into a chemo patient as I seem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations: EHR, the experience of an English practice</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/07/23/observations-ehr-the-experience-of-an-english-practice/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/07/23/observations-ehr-the-experience-of-an-english-practice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the 2007 ICMCC event, Dr. Amir Hanan presented this excellent paper called: &#8220;Towards a &#8220;Partnership of Trust&#8220;&#8221;. Dr. Hannan, see here a guest article on the ICMCC Blog by Bettine Pluut, is strongly convinced of the benefits of EHRs and the patient&#8217;s access to it. You can find a whole series of Record Access [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 23 June 2009: Declaration</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/06/23/observations-23-june-2009-declaration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.icmcc.org/2009/06/23/observations-22-june-2009-declaration/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It had to happen. After weeks of following the discussion &#8220;meaningful use&#8221; it became obvious that the patient should be part of the equation. And it did happen. Yesterday &#8220;A Declaration of Health Data Rights&#8221; was published. And the whole US health IT blog world is buzzing about ownership.
These are the points of the Declaration:

Have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beauty of ICMCC News Page</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/06/19/the-beauty-of-icmcc-news-page/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marcel Salathe is the author of an applet that made this rendering. You can see it in action here.

Lodewijk Bos
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		<title>Interoperability Summit: Establishing the Infrastructure for Health Assurance and Disease Prevention, Washington 1-2 June 2009</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/06/13/interoperability-summit-establishing-the-infrastructure-for-health-assurance-and-disease-prevention-washington-1-2-june-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.icmcc.org/2009/06/13/interoperability-summit-establishing-the-infrastructure-for-health-assurance-and-disease-prevention-washington-1-2-june-2009/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Establishing infrastructure for health assurance and disease prevention through healthcare transformation was the theme of this invitation-only event. The meeting was sponsored by the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and co-sponsored by all major technical professional societies engaged in health information technology issues, from ethics and standardsâ€¦ to patient care and eHealth. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 25 May 2009 – about numbers</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/05/25/observations-25-may-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 18:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.icmcc.org/?p=8936</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was my intention to write an observation today on something remarkable which I already mentioned a couple of months ago:
&#8220;do these studies really have any value at all, looking at the numbers involved?&#8220;.
The reason why I come back to this is because of a publication in Health Data Management, published 1 June, by Howard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 13 May 2009: The Dutch are amazing!!!</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/05/13/observations-13-may-2009-the-dutch-are-amazing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 07:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.icmcc.org/?p=8632</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am at the WHCC Europe 2009 in Brussels, my first trip since I was really hit by the consequences of my chemotherapy. And it is not easy. Even more, because there is no internet in the rooms, due to a technical problem. And for a handicapped man it would have been much easier to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations 8 May 2009</title>
		<link>http://blog.icmcc.org/2009/05/08/observations-8-may-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 20:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lodewijk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.icmcc.org/?p=8564</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a relatively quiet week, news-wise talking. Which was to be expected, after HIMSS, WHCC and Health2.0. Most of the news was about meaningful use. It gave me the chance to do some other things. I&#8217;m trying to improve the lay-out of the ICMCC website, which I hopefully will finish by June 1, [...]]]></description>
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