May 6, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Muntz, the principal deputy national coordinator in the federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, spoke with Mark Hagland just prior to his keynote address at the HCI Executive Summit in Orlando.
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 20, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In this podcast, Sam VanNorman, director of business intelligence at Park Nicollet Health System, discusses how his integrated healthcare system, located in St. Louis Park, Minnesota is moving forward as a CMS Pioneer ACO and what his organization has learned so far about accountable care and its data and information facilitation. This podcast gives a preview of the panel, ACOs: Policy Strategic and IT Issues, that Van Norman will be headlining at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit to be held May 6 through the 8 in Orlando.
April 18, 2012 John DeGaspari
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In this first part of a two-part podcast, George Reynolds, M.D., CIO and CMIO of Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., and first place winner of the 2011 Healthcare Informatics Innovator Award, discusses the genesis of the idea of using dashboards to drive quality, and its enthusiastic uptake by clinicians, as well as financial and operational professionals. This podcast gives a foretaste of the panel, “Beyond the Data Warehouse: Strategizing the Use and Analysis of Clinical Data for Meaningful Use” at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit, which will be held May 6 through the 8 in Orlando.
April 18, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Mark Hagland’s recent conversation with Brian Parrish of Dodge Communications looks at growing opportunities—and intensifying competition—for healthcare IT vendors. Will vendors have what it takes to push their customers over the finish line? It’s a question that will be asked at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit next month.
April 16, 2012 Mark Hagland
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The names of the top-place winning teams in the Healthcare Informatics/AMDIS IT Innovation Advocate Award program will be revealed just before the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit begins on May 6. What will the winning submissions say about the state of innovation in our industry?
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 28, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In this podcast, Rick Schooler, vice president and CIO at Orlando Health, also recipient of the 2011 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year Award, discusses how leaders in the industry are using clinical data analytics for performance improvement. This podcast gives a flavor of the panel, "Beyond the Data Warehouse: Strategizing the Use and Analysis of Clinical Data for Meaningful Use," Rick will be headlining at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit to be held May 6 through the 8 in Orlando. He will be joined on the panel by colleagues Dr. Bobbie Byrne, vice president of IT of Edward Hospital; Dr. George Reynolds, CMIO and CIO of Children’s Hospital and Medical Center; and Patricia Skarulis, vice president, Information Systems and CIO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
March 23, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Drex DeFord, CHIME’s 2012 board chairman, has decades of experience in healthcare IT management and leadership. Find out why he feels compelled to talk about the leadership challenges facing healthcare, as he delivers the closing keynote address at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit in Orlando in May.
March 20, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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After attending a presentation at the HIMSS12 eCollaboration Forum, “Platform Innovation in an ‘Open’ Environment,” I got really excited for the upcoming SMART Challenge. For those who are unfamiliar with the SMART Health App Challenge, it was started by a research team at Children’s Hospital of Boston and Harvard Medical School that launched a prize to encourage innovative app developers to build new products and services that benefit patients and providers. The $5,000 prize was funded from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
March 18, 2012 Mark Hagland
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The implications of a new study from the federal Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ) are many for the new healthcare. The key underlying question: is your organization moving towards the new accountability and transparency in healthcare? It's a subject we'll be talking about at our Executive Summit in May.
March 5, 2012 by Mark Hagland
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As I’ve been writing in reported articles and in blogs, I see the current era in healthcare and healthcare IT as being a time of great ferment and accelerated change. And during such a time, it’s incredibly important for all of us to spend time touching base with one another, to make sure we understand all the things going on right now. And though important conversations took place at this year's HIMSS Conference, we all know how frenetic HIMSS can be. At the HCI Executive Summit in May, our attendees will be able to participate in broad-ranging, yet also granular, discussions, in an intimate setting. And what if you have questions of our Summit speakers that are occurring to you now? Well, here's your chance...
