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‘Meaningful Yoose’ rap?

Many of us have spent the better part of a year trying to explain “meaningful use” to people inside and outside of healthcare, with varying degrees of success. It turns out I should have been paying attention to “meaningful yoose” instead, because the far-hipper-than-I Dr. Ross Martin spits truth in less than three minutes.

The Meaningful Yoose Rap from Ross Martin on Vimeo.

Martin, the founder of the American College of Medical Informatimusicology, apparently did this to the tune of that “Pants on the Ground” song from last year’s American Idol. You can play along at home with the lyrics, then get your 44 Gs for doin’ meaningful yoose.

Peace.

March 17, 2011 I Written By

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Spring training for Health Wonk Review

 

The sun is shining here in Chicago and the mercury is supposed to hit 60 degrees today for the first time in months. That could mean only one thing: Spring is in the air, and hope springs eternal, even for the star-crossed Cubs. Though it’s still spring training, noted Yankees fan Glenn Laffel of the Pizaazz blog is in midseason form as he hosts this week’s Health Wonk Review, with an all-star lineup of contributors.

My impassioned defense of Don Berwick makes the big-league roster among the sluggers (health policy), while health IT gets its due respect as a disruptive force by being categorized as the base-stealers.

Of note, longtime HIT blogger Shahid Shah, known as the Healthcare IT Guy, talks security. “I hear a lot of naive talk about how systems are secure because ‘we use SSL encryption’ or ‘we’re secure because we have a firewall.’  Anybody who’s been security and privacy work for more than a few months would know how false those statements are,” he writes. To continue the baseball analogy, it’s like a pitcher making a couple of light tosses over to first to keep the base runner honest, then leaving the next pitch out over the middle of the plate.

And now back to an afternoon of watching basketball, er, I mean, answering e-mail or something. o:-)

 

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