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.
June 29, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Below the level of the page-one news headlines, healthcare leaders have quietly been moving forward to create the new healthcare, with or without the help of official Washington. The Supreme Court's affirmation of the constitutionality of the ACA only adds certainty to the landscape.
June 19, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Texas Health Resources, a 24-hospital health system, is moving Ferdinand Velasco, M.D., its CMIO into a new position: the CHIO role. What does this shift at THR mean for U.S. healthcare more broadly? Dr. Velasco thinks he knows.
June 12, 2012 Pamela Dixon. Survey conducted by Roberta Rochman
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Achieving meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) as part of the mission to improve outcomes has become one of the top strategic missions of most health systems. The increasing importance of healthcare technology in the strategic landscape is changing the manner in which hospitals operate. It also has accelerated the demand for a clinical IT skill set and physician IT leadership. Physicians are stepping into the role, often referred to as the chief medical information officer (CMIO), and moving these initiatives ahead without the benefit of a playbook or roadmap. As the role grows in importance, we see it evolving.
April 4, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In today’s Healthcare Informatics podcast, Dr. Bill Bria, CMIO of the Tampa, Fla.-based, Shriners Hospitals for Children, as well as Chairman and Co-Founder of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS), joins us to talk about the evolution of the CMIO. Dr. Bria is one of the industry’s leading CMIOs and over his extensive career has seen the role evolve from a facilitator of clinical IS implementations to someone who has a hand in an organization’s change management and a seat at the executive table.
January 23, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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The senior clinical informatics role in patient care organizations for those with a nursing background—variously given the title “CNIO,” “vice president of clinical informatics,” and other labels—is increasingly becoming a nexus position in hospital-based organizations nationwide. Yet this position is only beginning to be standardized in terms of title, pay, responsibilities, and reporting relationships.
November 7, 2011 Mark Hagland
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A new study produced by HIMSS Analytics, a division of the Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and sponsored by the Andover-based Capsule, a provider of medical device connectivity solutions, is confirming trends being observed in hospitals nationwide, as the meaningful use process moves forward and clinical IT implementations advance, and that is the increased need for CMIOs to interface successfully with nursing leaders and managers for successful implementations.
September 26, 2011 Mark Hagland
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As a variety of developments and trends in healthcare intensify the demand for patient care organizations to use clinical and other data to analyze and improve clinical and financial performance and overall effectiveness, the chief medical information officer (CMIO) role is becoming more and more firmly entrenched in patient care organizations of all kinds, a new survey released at the AMDIS Physician-Computer Connection Symposium this summer in Ojai, Calif. confirms.
July 14, 2011 Mark Hagland
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What a difference a year makes. Last year (indeed, a year to the day of this writing), the annual Physician-Computer Connection Symposium, held (as it has been for years now) at the Ojai Valley Inn and Spa in Ojai, Calif., opened literally on the day that the top HHS, CMS, and ONC officials unveiled the final rule for stage 1 of meaningful use under the HITECH Act.
July 11, 2011
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This week, the New York Times published a fascinating article on a strategic change that medical school admissions officers in the U.S. and Canada are making with regarding to selecting which applicants for available slots in their medical schools.
June 24, 2011 Mark Hagland
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Nationwide, CMIOs in every type of hospital organization are developing strategies for leading their clinical, IT, and administrative colleagues forward through the complex area of quality data reporting under meaningful use. Those CMIOs in organizations at various stages along the journey agree that it will require a subtle combination of persuasion, sharing evidence and data, and a lot of granular hard work in order to get their clinician colleagues fully on board.
May 31, 2011 Mark Hagland
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Ann S. O’Malley, M.D., M.P.H., a senior researcher at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Studying Health System Change, on March 24, published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine in which she discussed some of what she called the “daunting task” of fully leveraging information technology to improve healthcare delivery over time. O’Malley stated, “HIT, especially if widely implemented, can facilitate coordination by making information electronically at the point of care. As clinical care processes become more effective and efficient, they can inform new HIT cap abilities that will better support coordination,” including, for example, developing consistent notification processes around communication about care transitions, she added.
