December 3, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Lisa Khorey, vice president of enterprise systems and data management at the University of Pittsburgh Medical center (UPMC) health system, shares her perspectives on what made her and her colleagues move forward on a five-year, $100 million enterprise healthcare analytics initiative
November 28, 2012 Mark Hagland
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If any consultant could claim the mantle of “sage of imaging informatics,” it might well be Joe Marion, who has attended and participated in more than 30 RSNA annual conferences. Joe sat down on the Wednesday of RSNA with HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland to share his perspectives on both this year's conference and on the current evolution of imaging informatics more broadly.
November 28, 2012 Mark Hagland
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One of the more prominent conversation starters at this year’s RSNA Conference, sponsored by the Radiological Society of North America, and being held this week at Chicago’s McCormick Place, has been the apparent drop in attendance compared with last year, 2011. By Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 28, foot traffic on the exhibit floors was quite noticeably sparse in most places. But was this an actual drop-off in attendance, or only an apparent one?
November 26, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Meeting this morning during RSNA 2012 with executives from the Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, one thing was clear: those patient care organizations with an imaging informatics strategy—perhaps almost any imaging informatics strategy??—are already light years ahead of their peer organizations whose senior executives have no such strategy.
November 19, 2012 David Raths
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Fresh off his organization’s annual meeting in Chicago, Kevin Fickenscher, MD, president and CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association, stopped off last week at the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMi) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to talk about the industry’s response to disruptive technological change.
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
October 12, 2012 Pamela Dixon and Steve Nilsen
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An in-depth interview with Dr. Alastair MacGregor, CIO and CMIO for Methodist Health System, a seven-hospital system in Memphis, Tenn., maps his career path from a practicing physician and recognized leader in Scotland, to a consultant for the Ministry for Health and Seniors in Canada, to medical director of Cerner Corp., and now to the combined CIO and CMIO role he holds today. What led him down the path to informatics and what he considers the critical milestones along his journey provide insight into the evolution that is taking place in healthcare IT in the U.S., the United Kingdom and Canada?
October 11, 2012 Mark Hagland
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We at Healthcare Informatics are passionately committed to bringing forward the exciting case studies of the teams and organizations in healthcare that are showing the way forward to the new healthcare. Does your healthcare organization have a team that should be recognized for its achievements? If so, it's time for that team to submit a nomination to our Innovator Awards program.
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.
October 8, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Cornerstone Health Care’s CIO Tim Terrell talks about the mission-critical IT foundations that will be required for medical groups to participate in the major healthcare reform-related programs, and how important analytics, and the implementation of IT solutions for care coordination, will be going forward
October 2, 2012 Mark Hagland
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As tip-of-the-spear healthcare industry leaders, senior executives at the UPMC health system see where the proverbial puck is headed, and they’re skating towards it as powerfully as they can.
October 2, 2012 Ted Reynolds
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Understanding that applying a “big-bang” approach can be counterproductive; that EMR implementations must be clinician-led; and establishing good IT governance, are among the key pieces of advice that Ted Reynolds wants to share with EMR implementation leaders, based on his experience with many implementations over the years.
