John,
Just a followup on your original question, and to expand on it a bit. Dr. Verghese has a transcript of his commencement speech at Stanford he gave last weekend, which is on his site and mine, and worth reading, but in preparation for his speech he had mentioned a historical figure, Paracelsus, I had not read much about. I have been on a Paracelsus reading frenzy since, but his concept of microcosmic and macrocosmic theory got me thinking a bit more.
I suppose one could argue that I have been a bit of a cheerleader for AC of late, and I would not deny that in the least, but this whole concept of microcosmic/macrocosmic theory, if I can corrupt it a bit, may explain some of my behavior.
On a microcosmic level, integrating just 3 tools to my practice, (AC,Udpox with the portal, TV/Chromebook), has been quite transforming for my practice, and hopefully by reaching out and helping others both in the AC family and outside, I hope to restore at least some of the connectivity back to the patient that I have witnessed with the TV/Chromebook integration.
I realize many, if not most, may not even be interested in changing current "tools", but on a macrocosmic level, I think if done appropriately, the twitter medium may help in that endeavor. I am learning as I go, but hope to reach out to other physicians and if some part of my solution works for them, then that is all I can ask for.
I am not quite sure how other EHR's project on a large screen to a patient, but I do know how AC works in this fashion, and I cannot trumpet loudly enough how well this works.
