July 9, 2013 Mark Hagland
If you're a healthcare PR or marketing professional wanting to pitch successfully to the editors at Healthcare Informatics, please do read on. I want you to be successful--really, I do.
June 29, 2013 Mark Hagland
It was fascinating to watch the dialogue unfold at the annual Physician-Computer Connection Symposium this week, as CMIOs shared with each other their challenges, frustrations, and hopes, at a time when CMIOs and other medical informaticists are faced with an avalanche of demands and requirements
June 27, 2013 Mark Hagland
An AMDIS Physician-Computer Symposium session entitled “The C Suite and the IT of the Future” triggered a lively discussion, and led to a healthy debate over whether or not creating new titles and positions is the best way to bring about transformational change in healthcare
June 11, 2013 Mark Hagland
An April article by leaders at McKinsey & Company looks at the future of big data in healthcare, and frames that future in terms of large investments that span the gaps in patient engagement, care management, clinical performance improvement, payment reform, and other areas. Is their broad vision one that CIOs and CMIOs can translate into reality?
June 3, 2013 Mark Hagland
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today made an important announcement at Health Datapalooza IV, being held in Washington, D.C. this week. Her announcement of the release of hospital outpatient charge data, as well as Medicare spending and utilization data, will further federal officials’ strategy of forcing hospitals towards greater transparency.
June 2, 2013 Mark Hagland
Earlier this year, The New England Journal of Medicine published a compelling, research-based commentary in its Perspectives section, entitled “Use of Health IT for Higher-Value Critical Care,” by Lena M. Chen, M.D., and several other colleagues. The implications of Dr. Chen’s team’s research findings are potentially far-reaching for hospitals, and especially for CMIOs and other clinical informaticists.
May 28, 2013 Mark Hagland
Attendees at the third annual HCI Executive Summit participated in a number of important discussions, as roundtable discussion-based sessions and lecture-based sessions all turned to the opportunities and challenges facing healthcare IT leaders around healthcare reform, population health, analytics, and related topics.
May 13, 2013 Mark Hagland
The May 6 announcement that the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) was calling for a one-year extension of Stage 2 of meaningful use has pushed the association deeper into the waters of policy and regulatory development. Can CHIME avoid becoming involved in partisan politics in its new push on MU?
May 9, 2013 Mark Hagland
In the second decade of the 21st century, amid the new transparency in everything, the days when issues like hospital pricing-and clinical outcomes-were obscure topics, are nearly over. What are the implications on both the pricing and outcomes sides of the equation?
May 8, 2013 Mark Hagland
In speaking recently with industry experts and healthcare IT leaders about the topic of strategizing around vendor contracts, I had a particularly interesting conversation with Fran Turisco of Aspen Advisors, that underscored for me how vital it will be for CIOs, CMIOs, and other healthcare IT leaders to let go of the mental constructs of the past when it comes to laying the IT foundations for the new healthcare.
