July 7, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Spectrum Health’s J. Michael Kramer, M.D. sees a world of opportunity in moving his western Michigan health system forward to fully leverage the benefits of the electronic health record to create the clinical transformation needed in today’s healthcare.
June 29, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
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 27, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Regardless of what happens on Thursday in the Supreme Court, it’s clear that AMDIS’s member CMIOs and medical informaticists will continue to push ahead in creating practical change in their patient care organizations and across the U.S. healthcare system
June 25, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Healthcare Informatics honors the top winners in the Healthcare Informatics/ADMIS 2012 IT Innovation Advocate Award, and Mark Hagland interviews the number-one team lead, Brian Patty, M.D., CMIO of HealthEast Health System.
June 24, 2012 Mark Hagland
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As healthcare moves forward towards new, more accountable paradigms, CMIOs in patient care organizations nationwide are finding their positions becoming more and more focused on clinical transformation and process improvement. With such evolutionary changes are coming increased staff support, new reporting relationships, and even title changes.
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.
May 3, 2012 Mark Hagland
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The editors of Healthcare Informatics are delighted to announce the results of the Healthcare Informatics/AMDIS second annual IT Innovation Advocate Award, cosponsored by HCI and by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, and to present an interview between HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland and HealthEast CMIO Brian Patty, M.D., team lead of the first-place-winning informatics team.
For the second year in a row, Healthcare Informatics and AMDIS (the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems) are proud to sponsor the Healthcare Informatics/AMDIS IT Innovation Advocate Award program, which recognizes teams of clinical informaticists, clinicians, and other healthcare leaders in hospitals, medical groups, and health systems whose innovative initiatives are moving healthcare forward.
April 15, 2012 Mark Hagland
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As healthcare leaders are learning nationwide, managing big data involves a lot more than simply building databases and running reports. Indeed, a new CSC report urges leaders of patient care organizations to think first about successfully laying the foundations for data governance.
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.
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.
