February 12, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Dr. Jim Levin was both a clinical informatics pioneer and a true mensch. Well do I remember the first time I met him, four years ago, when in the spring of 2009, as I was meeting with executives and leaders from across the UPMC health system in Pittsburgh, to find out what UPMC leaders were doing to leverage information technology for systemic performance improvement.
February 11, 2013 Mark Hagland
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James E. Levin, M.D., Ph.D., CMIO at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, died unexpectedly on Feb. 10 while traveling on business. Dr. Levin, 55, was a nationally recognized pioneer in medical informatics, and had helped guide his colleagues at Children’s of Pittsburgh, part of the vast 20-plus-hospital University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) health system, through industry-leading innovations in clinical innovation and electronic health record (EHR)-driven clinical performance improvement.
February 3, 2013 Mark Hagland
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CIOs, CMIOs and other healthcare leaders have a real opportunity to help shape community-wide healthcare delivery performance improvement initiatives: just ask Jane Brock, M.D., of the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care, that state's QIO.
January 28, 2013 David Raths
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What does a technology platform for accountable care look like? What tools do organizations need to allow them to integrate clinical, claims, patient-reported and public health data into a patient-centric data model? Healthcare Informatics recently interviewed several chief information officers (CIOs), chief medical information officers (CMIOs), and consultants involved in creating accountable care organizations (ACOs), and a consensus seems to be developing about the areas of infrastructure they need to bolster.
January 16, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Visiting senior executives at the UPMC health system in Pittsburgh last week, some of the thoughts I’ve been having lately around what creates and advances a culture of innovation were validated and confirmed for me.
December 18, 2012 by Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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As healthcare moves toward a future in which providers will handle more population level risk, the chief integration officer will play a central role in helping hospitals integrate and align with physicians to build a broad-based care management platform.
December 3, 2012 Pete Rivera
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The fun begins when you look at the various CIO personalities out there. They don’t always fit the corporate climate or mesh well with the CEO’s personality. Personalities and stress factors all contribute to decision making and if you take a step back, you often can get an education, as well as some entertainment value out of it.
November 18, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Deloitte’s first-ever look at senior executive interest in and support for informatics development across all the major sectors of healthcare has uncovered both heightened interest and a lack of resource support as major issues facing informatics leaders
November 14, 2012 Mark Hagland
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One thing seemed clear last week at the AMIA 2012 Conference: physician informaticists are helping to move the discussion—and the solutions—forward towards new solutions in the physician documentation arena
October 10, 2012 Pamela Dixon
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As meaningful use challenges the industry on meeting deployment deadlines, it is becaoming clear that Chief Information Officers (CIOs) need help. As the Chief Medical Information Officers (CMIOs) has become more and more engaged, we see the interaction between these key IT players expanding and continuing to evolve. This is where the future of Healthcare IT is being built. The responses of two surveys conducted by executive search firm SSi-SEARCH, one with CIOs and the other with CMIOs, help to clarify each perspective as the interaction between these two key players moves forward.
August 29, 2012 Mark Hagland
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What's most fascinating about the final rule for Stage 2 of meaningful use is not what was surprising, but what wasn't surprising. Then again, the leaders of the pioneering patient care organizations in this country already understand the direction of the new healthcare; for them, meaningful use is just one (very big) element in the overall operational landscape.
July 30, 2012 David Raths
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Federally Qualified Health Centers are the foundation of our health care safety net, providing care to people of all ages, regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay. Because they operate on tight budgets, they have traditionally struggled with health IT adoption. But one Texas nonprofit organization put a solid technology infrastructure and a transparent quality improvement effort at the heart of its expansion.
