May 11, 2012 Pete Rivera
Well I was sure that there would be major adjustments to be made when I left the military after 21 years. I guess the biggest cultural change came down to the uniform. In the military you always know who is in charge by all the “ornaments” in the uniform. The more the colors and “bling,” the higher up the food chain they are, especially the Army-they are all about the bling!
May 10, 2012 Pete Rivera
Reach back to all your old quality training, Deming, Toyota, whatever and at the core it’s the same message; your front line workers really know what’s going on and what workarounds they are using because the existing system is so bad. They are also the first ones to create new workarounds because the brand new system now takes five mouse clicks to do what the old one did in two.
April 4, 2012
I find it ironic that after investing money and effort in an EMR implementation, many organizations are still handing out paper forms to collect history, insurance updates and HIPAA acknowledgements.
April 4, 2012
I don’t understand why application vendors place little importance on reporting requirements. I get the fact that customers like to customize their reports, but why not make that an inherent feature? Maybe that is why the market is constantly creating so many 3rd party Business Intelligence (BI) vendors. But what about Clinical Intelligence (CI) requirements?
February 28, 2012 Pete Rivera
During one of the HIMSS Roundtable discussions, the topic of recruiting IT talent from other industries and how to migrate them to Healthcare IT kept coming up. The vast majority of CIO’s and Directors all agreed that we must tap into this talent pool, but these candidates lacked needed skills necessary to relate to clinicians and they did not understand the unique challenges of Healthcare.
February 25, 2012 Pete Rivera
Last year I had a problem picking an education session to attend because there were so many excellent sessions. This year I did not have very many tick marks on the session brochure.
February 14, 2012 Pete Rivera
We sometimes are at the mercy of the political football and feel like we just aren’t moving forward like we need to.
If there is something that you are passionate about, it will translate to a good Blog.
January 27, 2012 Pete Rivera
Our industry often expands as some companies acquire others. As customers and industry watchers we grow accustomed to the various names of products and know exactly what it does based on its name. Ingenix Claims Manager scrubs electronic claims before sending them to payers. Initiate offers a tool that helps you determine the amount of duplicate medical records that are in your data base. Finally, IDX was the software used for practice management, EMR, radiology and HIS. These are just a few products that have been “rebranded.”
December 29, 2011 Pete Rivera
A very different workflow awaits small physician practices in 2012 ACO (Accountable Care Organizations) represents a big gorilla inside each exam room.
December 29, 2011 Pete Rivera
Many large organizations have embraced the concept of a centralized approach to Project Management, but the downside is that staff become so engrained with bureaucracy that they fail to be nimble. There is a fine line between having resources that assist with project management and having someone that checks blocks and has an opinion.
