February 23, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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At the Beacon Town Hall meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at HIMSS12 in Las Vegas, federal representatives, as well as four Beacon Communities leaders shared the innovations that have been created in their communities as the result of Beacon Community Program. Farzad Mostashari, M.D., the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the ONC, said that Beacon Communities made it as clear as possible what healthcare IT is all about and provided valuable lessons about how to accomplish change.
November 10, 2011
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My conclusions, based on what I learned at AMIA and captured in the list of assumptions, are there exist several concrete and useful ways to approach medication reconciliation that are not in common practice today:
November 4, 2011
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Last week, I attended the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) conference in Washington, DC. This conference is the largest U.S. gathering of practitioners, researchers, academics, and government/policy professionals working in informatics.
March 28, 2011 Joe Bormel, M.D.
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A professional colleague, Stacie DePeau, MBA, PMP, and parent extraordinaire, sent a link to me last week. The link took me to an article that detailed how one company and its local Tokyo retail store management dealt the earthquake in Japan. Although some will be distracted by the feel-good marketing halo the story inspires, the account contains a check list of crisis management issues in narrative form that are relevant for every C-level hospital executive
July 1, 2008
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Ninety three percent of CIOs surveyed by HIMSS feel that medication safety is an issue that technology can address (the number two answer was
