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Welcome to the online archive of the HIT Bottom^TM health IT cartoon series! HIT Bottom, penned by HITTG's Michael Christopher and Martin Jensen, appears in issues of the HITSync Digest of Health IT, an approximately-weekly digest of the top healthcare information technology media articles. Subscription is free; click here to subscribe.

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The Archive

Click to view the animated cartoon "The 2008 HIStalk HISsies Awards":	Jonathan Bush of athenahealth and Neil Patterson of Cerner take top "honors." This is the official HISsies Awards 2008 animated cartoon video, produced for HIStalk.

Click to view the animated cartoon "HealthFault from Microsoft":	Patient privacy group in league with Microsoft's HealthVault PHR?

	Her crystal ball can't access health records. The RHIO was shaping up to be a bigger challenge.

	CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) is like a box of chocolates.

	Teddy bear bites it: The market experiments with alternative methods of acquiring physician performance data.

	Intel teams with Wal-Mart to keep American jobs in America. Urology's with the toilet paper. Craig Barret declares that U.S. healthcare is "Ot of Control...bankrupt."

	Mark McClellan of CMS resigns, pushes nine days of reimbursements into next year.

	RHIOs get all the money they need.

	Fear not: The CIA invests in Initiate Systems' EMR product, but only for the cutting-edge health IT.

	Health IT - the other white meat - didn'y fry with the Congressional majority.


Conference of RHIO Managers

	Healthcare CIO Summit

	Answers? CMS didn't comprehend the Jeopardy thing

	More foolishness out of Massachusett... spend less money on healthcare by keeping people from getting sick

	Healthcare choices: the bills are on the refrigerator, the check's in the mail.

	Losing medical records - another CDROM outa the park.

	Bush's health IT message: We're for it.

	School of Google Medicine

	Newt Gingrich and Hillary Clinton on the real health IT imperative. Don't they make an attractive couple?

	Uncle Sam's Energy Policy: Santa brings coal to the Medicaid kids. Khappy Holidays!

	Prescription cheerleaders prepare a demonstration of the human pyramid for the good doctors.

	EMPI Wizard: the magical Master Patient Index

	Good news and bad news: No code until ICD-10.

	Old Doctor Brown learns laptop EMR.


Quixote assault on the federal healthcare windmill

	Open source clinical software documentation

	Surgergy: RFID chip subs for dodgy pacemaker

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