| Wednesday, November 25, 2009 |
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| Can Cloud Computing Significantly Change HIT Requirements |
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| Cloud Computing holds great potential to change the dynamics of the HIT industry. The ease of use, flexibility, scalability, and low up front costs are driving the growth of cloud at a CAGR of 27% (over 2008–12). But despite its numerous benefits, cloud computing still needs to answer concerns such as control, data security, privacy, availability, portability, vendor viability, and regulatory and compliance requirements for... |
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posted by Michael W. Craige, MBA at 8:10:11 PM |  1 comments |
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| Thursday, August 13, 2009 |
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| CIO’s Technology Investment Priorities |
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Despite the current downturn, there are p ockets of growth and investment spending in several key healthcare IT areas. I am seeing strong signs surfacing of CIOs shifting their focus to cost cutting initiatives vs. growth-oriented investments. However, current dynamics are dramatically different from the last recession.
….. Conditions within the IT... |
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| posted by Michael W. Craige, MBA at 4:57:25 PM | 0 comments |
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| Sunday, July 05, 2009 |
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| New Revenue Opportunities for 2009, 2010 and Beyond…… |
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We would agree that the healthcare industry is facing some serious challenges, such as, rapidly increasing costs, lack of quality control, depleting level of care and revenue management. Nevertheless, despite – or perhaps because of – these challenges, today the healthcare industry presents significant opportunity and growth prospects.
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| posted by Michael W. Craige, MBA at 12:29:31 PM | 2 comments |
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| Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
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| Before You Choose an EMR Vendor – Consider E-prescribing! |
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Calling all “Ambulatory Care Providers” that have not implemented an EMR, please evaluate e-prescribing vendors that offer e-prescribing as part of their complete EMR solution.
What's it about?
Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) involves the use of application software and connectivity tools... |
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| posted by Michael W. Craige, MBA at 3:23:09 AM | 4 comments |
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| Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
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| Healthcare IT Adoption without Collaboration - How Does That Work? |
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The power of technology has transformed every single
industry and line of business in our economy. But for Healthcare, technology is
yet to be properly implemented to allow patient information to be shared across
multiple health facilities and hospitals.
Even as we work today to achieve 100% of healthcare IT
adoption across the country many... |
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| posted by Michael W. Craige, MBA at 1:00:00 PM | 4 comments |
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| Thursday, February 05, 2009 |
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| Heads Up! My Technology Survival Watch List for 2009 and Beyond |
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| Open technologies are more and more becoming high-value solutions, and making large strides --- but wait until you see what's to come below…….
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| posted by Michael W. Craige, MBA at 12:48:33 AM | 0 comments |
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| Tuesday, February 03, 2009 |
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| Is IT Spending a Value, or just “Spending Money”? |
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Can you justify your IT spending as an investment that creates an asset with value? If you can---let us know!
Only a few IT executives, and CIOs can say the same?
I have witnessed a tenfold increase in IT investments in US firms alone over the past 15 years or my career. Given such large investments, I can conclude that managing IT is one of the single...
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| posted by Michael W. Craige, MBA at 5:28:43 PM | 0 comments |
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| Monday, November 24, 2008 |
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| What Healthcare IT Professional Should Know! |
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Is it fair to state that your level of involvement in the healthcare industry dictates how much you know about the industry? Well, if you believe this - here’s a quick summary of three important areas that all IT professional should understand and be able to present in three minutes or less.
The global... |
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| posted by Michael W. Craige, MBA at 10:11:55 AM | 2 comments |
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| Wednesday, October 15, 2008 |
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| Economic Uncertainty? Cost Saving Strategies. |
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| CIO and technology decision makers in our current market place are feeling the pressure of economic uncertainty -- either directly in their healthcare organization, or simply because they have to deal with the constant barrage of stories about troubling economic conditions and weak market and industry trends that directly affect their business strategies.
On top of all this economic pressure, IT decisions makers were already feeling the pressure to reduce operating... |
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| posted by Michael W. Craige, MBA at 9:23:55 AM | 0 comments |
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| Monday, September 08, 2008 |
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| Healthcare Transparency - A Vision of Change |
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Like Newt Gingrich article on the “Future State” (April 2008 issues of Healthcare Informatics), my vision of tomorrow’s healthcare system cannot be accomplished with Healthcare IT alone, we need... |
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| posted by Michael W. Craige, MBA at 9:57:01 PM | 3 comments |
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| Tuesday, August 26, 2008 |
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| Clinical is the Name of the Game - Hospitals' IT budgets. |
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Clinical applications continue to be |
| posted by Michael W. Craige, MBA at 9:49:35 PM | 0 comments |
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| Friday, August 22, 2008 |
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| Going Green Strategies – thoughts from my data centre |
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I spend most of my professional career going in and out of technology data centers for some reason or the other. Today more that before I noticed that many data centers are at their max with space constraints, power/heat constraints, and aging technology infrastructure. Likewise, businesses, clinics and hospital buildings that house data centers are becoming old and less suitable with many energy related challenges. Challenges that are now attracting the EPA……
At the end... |
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| posted by Michael W. Craige, MBA at 3:05:58 PM | 2 comments |
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| Thursday, August 21, 2008 |
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| Smart Strategies – HIT Requirements and Trends |
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| Our health system is currently in the midst of a transformation that will be re-shaped by the continued adoption of information technology, and an up-to-date IT management strategy. During this transformation CIOs have the burden of... |
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| posted by Michael W. Craige, MBA at 5:04:52 PM | 2 comments |
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| Wednesday, August 20, 2008 |
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| New Blogger - With Strategic Initiatives to Push HIT |
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I am pleased to be the newest blogger on the Health Informatics website. I hope my contribution will be useful to other health informatics readers and health care technology leaders. Please, shower me with feedback and discussions.
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| posted by Michael W. Craige, MBA at 5:00:22 PM | 1 comments |
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