May 16, 2012 Mark Hagland
Seattle Children’s Hospital’s Drex DeFord, in his closing keynote address to the HCI Executive Summit, last week shared with Summit attendees his philosophy of leadership. Refreshingly, DeFord, the current chairman of the CHIME board of directors, believes that CIOs need to get—and stay—outside their comfort zones.
May 6, 2012 Mark Hagland
Halfway through David Muntz’s excellent opening keynote address at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit this afternoon (May 6), I was struck once again by the sense that his having joined the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) four months ago may have marked a significant turning point for the federal agency. Let’s call it the Muntz Effect.
May 1, 2012 Mark Hagland
Tucked away inside President Obama’s proposed fiscal 2013 year budget are some hopeful statistics around electronic health record adoption, particularly recent figures around office-based physicians' EHR adoption, and the assist that doctors are getting from the federal government's regional extension centers (RECs). Are we reaching an important turning point on the long journey towards the new healthcare?
April 24, 2012 Mark Hagland
When it comes to charges for common healthcare procedures, a new study from UCSF Medical School finds dramatic variations in hospital charges, even as the healthcare system begins to bend toward greater pricing and outcomes transparency.
April 18, 2012 Mark Hagland
Mark Hagland’s recent conversation with Brian Parrish of Dodge Communications looks at growing opportunities—and intensifying competition—for healthcare IT vendors. Will vendors have what it takes to push their customers over the finish line? It’s a question that will be asked at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit next month.
April 16, 2012 Mark Hagland
The names of the top-place winning teams in the Healthcare Informatics/AMDIS IT Innovation Advocate Award program will be revealed just before the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit begins on May 6. What will the winning submissions say about the state of innovation in our industry?
April 11, 2012 Mark Hagland
Working towards creating the data analytics structures and processes of the future is going to be an ongoing challenge, and not necessarily just for the obvious reasons. Edward Hospital’s Bobbie Byrne, M.D. has one word for you on the subject: “process.”
April 3, 2012 Mark Hagland
James L. “Larry” Holly, M.D., president and co-founder of Southeast Texas Medical Associates (SETMA), in Beaumont, Texas, has helped lead his colleagues towards a significant optimization of readmissions management for the at-risk patients being cared for by their group. What’s SETMA’s secret?
March 26, 2012 Mark Hagland
Does the bridging of diverse groups within patient care organizations that CMIOs engage in every day have some things in common with what linguistic interpreters do? Dirk Stanley, a CMIO who also happens to be bilingual and bicultural, thinks so.
March 23, 2012 Mark Hagland
Drex DeFord, CHIME’s 2012 board chairman, has decades of experience in healthcare IT management and leadership. Find out why he feels compelled to talk about the leadership challenges facing healthcare, as he delivers the closing keynote address at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit in Orlando in May.
