March 26, 2012 Mark Hagland
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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 25, 2012
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Dirk Stanley, M.D., M.P.H., chief medical informatics offer at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass., has evolved forward professionally a great deal in his five years as CMIO at that community hospital; and he continues to bring multiple perspectives to that role, including bilingual and bicultural ones.
March 21, 2012 Mark Hagland
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(April Healthcare Informatics) What does the development of transistors from single atoms on the part of Australian and American physicians have in common with the important advances being made in patient care organizations every day by CMIOs? More perhaps than one might think.
March 21, 2012 Mark Hagland
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As physician informaticists rise into CMIO titles, the CMIO role itself is gradually being transformed, particularly in more advanced patient care organizations, from its early “tech-head doc” function to a management role focused on implementation, to increasingly, a transformational leadership role. CMIOs and industry experts agree that the skills needed to help lead change on a broad scale are pushing medical informaticists to new levels of professional development.
March 16, 2012 Tim Tolan
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We’ve all heard the phrase “work-life balance” (WLB)—and while many of us truly get it, others are so busy trying to keep their heads above water that they never pause to figure out how to build a true work-life balance into their career track. I’m certainly no expert on WLB, but (as you might suspect) I do have some firsthand experience with what it means and why it’s necessary.
March 12, 2012 Mark Hagland
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When it comes to healthcare IT leaders reaching out to office-based physicians, a Deloitte study released in February adds to the mounting evidence for the perceived benefits of hospital-physician collaboration on healthcare IT.
March 1, 2012 Mark Hagland
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The sense of frenetic activity and anticipation was never greater in the healthcare IT sphere than last week, during the HIMSS12 conference in Las Vegas. I can’t remember a HIMSS conference that was more frenetic. What I think is particularly important at times like this is to have bold, passionate, clear-eyed leaders in our midst, women and men who can peer into the future and help lead their colleagues forward into it.
February 29, 2012 Tim Tolan
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Managing a team of IT professionals is both rewarding and challenging—especially if they’re remote employees. I’ve learned over the years that it takes a unique kind of person to successfully function away from the heartbeat of that traditional office environment most workers take for granted. It’s equally challenging to recruit remote employees—to convince the new hire that you actually have a plan to integrate them to the team.
February 28, 2012 Bobbie Byrne, M.D.
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...Of ICD-10 delaying, HIT rock stars, stage 2 MU snafus, and... those old ladies playing slots in the Vegas casinos...
February 28, 2012 Pete Rivera
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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 21, 2012 Gwen Darling
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Can't make it to HIMSS12? The fact that this year's conference is in Vegas should provide some added excitement and spectacle. Certainly some added spectacle is always welcomed on these trips. I'll do my best to report on the sights and sounds of conference for those of you who couldn't make it this year, and hopefully do so with ease on this slick new keyboard I just purchased for my iPad.
February 10, 2012 Kevin Kolus, Editor of sister publication, Long-Term Living Magazine
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Information technology is on its way to becoming the hottest topic in long-term and post-acute care—if it can just wrestle that label from our importunate friend “reimbursement cuts.” Healthcare itself is in a transition period as efforts are being made to dismantle provider silos, employ interoperable electronic health records and capture clinical outcomes data, all for the sake of proving that quality care is indeed being delivered.
