Guest article: Creating a culture of adoption for EHRs and health IT
There are many challenges surrounding the deployments EHRs and one of the biggest is that not enough training or pre-work done to prepare staff and resources.
Thoughts on HIT (technical) certifications vs. graduate degrees
These days I’ve been getting an increasing number of questions from some very smart readers of this blog about whether or not graduate degrees or technical (HIT-specific or otherwise) certifications are worth the effort. I’ve written a few posts recently on similar topics and those are worth reviewing: Check out these videos if you’re looking [...]
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Guest Article: Shakespeare in Namespace, or why Blue Button took off as fast as it did
I had the privilege of working with Dr. Peter Levin as an outside technology strategy adviser while he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Veterans Affairs during the first Obama Administration. Peter’s a hard-charging, fast-moving, take-no-prisoners style senior technical executive; he was an entrepreneur, professor, and engineer long before he came into government so it was no [...]
Doctors slow to embrace innovation? Maybe it’s because they own all the risk
I recently posted about my upcoming Healthcare Unbound presentation on why healthcare disruption is happening too slowly and requested some thoughts from my readers. This morning I woke up to receive these terrific remarks from Jeroen Bouwens which I’m sharing with permission: My theory as to what is holding back certain types of innovation in healthcare is [...]
Reducing shadow IT by embracing “good enough for HIPAA” business-friendly SaaS tools
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 to hear that Box.com is now willing to do so. I’m quite pleased that we’re finally seeing some serious healthcare SaaS offerings from [...]
How to use WebID to create single sign-on across healthcare systems
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 to hack several open source system to implement a single sign on solution based on the protocol.
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A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Understanding what’s next for healthcare information technology innovation
In Nashville on Friday, at the Vanderbilt Healthcare Conference, I gave a short talk on a panel focused on the question "What’s next for healthcare information technology innovation?"The talk focused on answering a couple of key questions: What does innovation in healthcare mean? Where are the major areas in healthcare where innovation is required?
Call it practical, actionable, or useful, just don’t call it big in healthcare conversations
By focusing on, and frankly scaring people with, the term "big data" we’re undermining the potential immediate utility of all kinds of data.
How to answer the question “Do you want to be my business partner?”
Answer these eight questions before you agree to a partnership with another company or individual.
Startup tips: Should you partner with another technology company to help sell your product?
Over the last few weeks a number of clients and readers have asked a similar question: I’ve been approached by company X to partner with us. Do you know them and what do you think we should do? Since many startups, especially technology firms, partner for the wrong reasons and end up having failed or […]
Maximize Revenue and Patient Care with Strategic Weight Loss Management
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
First wave of MU Stage 2 draft test procedures released
if you’re building software in the health IT world, you should be jumping into MU Stage 2 requirements in earnest now and start your programming engines as soon as possible.
8 mistakes to avoid when securing cloud services
There’s solid demand these days for services like DropBox.com or Box.net that allow easy but secure file sharing to occur with proper privacy restrictions and audit tracking. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that there are a few companies, such as FolderGrid, trying to solve the problem of HIPAA-compliant file sharing. What FolderGrid is doing, […]
10 tips for getting the best ROI on a real-time location system in hospitals
There are very few “no brainers” in hospital technology purchases — most of the decisions about what to buy and how to implement what we buy are complex. However, one decision is pretty easy — you have to put in asset management and tracking solutions for obvious reasons. But, how do you make sure that […]
Solutions for the top 5 PACS interconnectivity and interoperability problems
Most health IT interoperability and connectivity discussions these days center around HL7, CCD, and other structured data interchange. However, the vast majority of data (in terms of size) is shared as images and documents. The DICOM and PACS standards are very successful but given the number of questions I get about them from readers it […]
2012 HIT advice: Convert vendors to HIPAA helpers, master data integration
Like many of you, I made the annual pilgrimage to the HIMSS Conference last month but I didn’t write much publicly about it (I mostly wrote private analyst reports for specific clients). There’s so much noise at such a big conference that I like writing about HIMSS gatherings after a little time has passed and […]