ANNOUNCEMENT

These 11 companies will be featured in the MedCity ENGAGE Innovation Showcase June 5-6 in Washington, D.C.

EHR costs one of the main profitibility issues worrying doctors

EHR costs one of the main profitibility issues worrying doctors

May 21, 2013 1:06 pm by | 0 Comments

SAN FRANCISCO ’ You might not guess it to look at your most recent medical bills, but doctors are nervous about their ability to make money. CareCloud, which creates a ... Read more

Patient engagement and technology: Is “success” based on usage or outcomes?

Patient engagement and technology: Is “success” based on usage or outcomes?

May 21, 2013 12:55 pm by | 0 Comments

SAN FRANCISCO ’ Online consumer engagement has been around since social media took off, allowing companies to form meaningful relationships with customers through ongoing interactions. Led by marketing and sales ... Read more


How listening to doctors helped Meditech develop a bold new vision

How listening to doctors helped Meditech develop a bold new vision

May 7, 2013 6:00 am by | 0 Comments

I have no financial relationships with any EHR vendor, but feel a great affinity for the vendors in Massachusetts - eClinicalWorks, AthenaHealth and Meditech.For the past few years, I've suggested ... Read more

Reducing shadow IT by embracing ’good enough for HIPAA’ business-friendly SaaS tools

Reducing shadow IT by embracing ’good enough for HIPAA’ business-friendly SaaS tools

May 5, 2013 1:29 pm by | 0 Comments

I’ve said repeatedly that any cloud/SaaS vendor that wants to be taken seriously in healthcare must be willing to sign a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA) and I was happy ... Read more

Password problems are expensive: $5.5M in security breaches and $51 in labor for each reset

Password problems are expensive: $5.5M in security breaches and $51 in labor for each reset

May 1, 2013 10:35 pm by | 0 Comments

More than half of us say that we can’t remember all our passwords. Which makes sense, given that almost a third of all companies require their employees to remember six ... Read more

How to use WebID to create single sign-on across healthcare systems

How to use WebID to create single sign-on across healthcare systems

April 29, 2013 8:25 am by | 0 Comments

The Simple Sign-on challenge sponsored by the ONC through the Health 2.0 challenge was an exciting opportunity for us to learn about a sophisticated technology protocol and then being able ... Read more

Health Wildcatters looking to support HIT entrepreneurs in the great state of Texas

Health Wildcatters looking to support HIT entrepreneurs in the great state of Texas

April 26, 2013 12:47 pm by | 0 Comments

A Dallas technology accelerator is launching a new program for healthcare startups. Applications for the first class of Health Wildcatters is now open. The accelerator is looking for companies working ... Read more


What do athenahealth and Square have in common? They get outsourcing

What do athenahealth and Square have in common? They get outsourcing

April 17, 2013 10:32 am by | 0 Comments

Athenahealth is the biggest, best healthcare biller in the country, bar none. Their economies of scale and complete access to the raw information enable them to be the best biller ... Read more

Republicans, Democrats agree on IT procurement; Apocalypse expected Wednesday

Republicans, Democrats agree on IT procurement; Apocalypse expected Wednesday

April 9, 2013 10:33 am by | 0 Comments

In these politically polarized times, Americans expect Republicans and Democrats to disagree on every detail right down to what day of the week it is. This is especially true in ... Read more

Beautiful booths: A last look at HIMSS 2013

Beautiful booths: A last look at HIMSS 2013

March 7, 2013 9:03 pm by | 0 Comments

HIMSS 2013 is now history but we had to take one look back at the interesting conversations and booths at the health IT event. ... Read more

Epic artwork brings Wisconsin artists to HIMSS 2013

Epic artwork brings Wisconsin artists to HIMSS 2013

March 7, 2013 11:08 am by | 0 Comments

Every year at HIMSS, Epic includes right brain thinking in its booth as a nice balance to all the EMR talk. Employees select artwork from an art market in Madison ... Read more

Why healthcare isn’t ready for innovation: Docs, vendors, hospital hiring practices

Why healthcare isn’t ready for innovation: Docs, vendors, hospital hiring practices

March 6, 2013 1:11 pm by | 20 Comments

I just left the healthcare industry for the second time and it’s sad the level of ignorance and superstition that exists around computers . . . and SQL especially. The ... Read more

How to create a BYOD policy for your company

How to create a BYOD policy for your company

February 23, 2013 1:50 pm by | 0 Comments

Eighty-one percent of companies have some kind of BYOD program in place, but only 37 percent of IT managers thought that their company’s mobile strategy was working well. If you ... Read more

Insurers to pick up 60% of the bill for Pennsylvania’s newest HIE

Insurers to pick up 60% of the bill for Pennsylvania’s newest HIE

February 17, 2013 9:25 am by | 4 Comments

When patients insured by Independence Blue Cross are discharged from the hospital, discharge reports are added to medical records at their primary doctors' offices less than 50 percent of the ... Read more

What’s next: Agile hospitals will move into the post EHR era

What’s next: Agile hospitals will move into the post EHR era

February 12, 2013 6:00 am by | 2 Comments

At BIDMC, we've already achieved 100% EHR adoption and 90% Meaningful Use attestation among our clinician community. Now that the foundation is laid, I believe our next body of ... Read more