August 10, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna interviews the CEO of the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC), Kate Berry, in part 2 of two-part podcast series on patient engagement. In the first part of the interview, they talked about why patient engagement has come to the forefront, and what came out that summit. Part two brings out discussion on how mobile health plays into the patient engagement landscape – including an app that Berry says will be a game-changer, and what NeHC has planned next when it comes to patient engagement.
July 26, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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This two-part podcast interview with the CEO of the National eHealth Collaborative, Kate Berry, explores the rising prominence of patient engagement in healthcare. In part 1, Berry and HCI Associate Editor Gabriel Perna discuss why providers and other healthcare entities are suddenly paying attention to patient engagement, and why deploying it effectively remains a mystery to many. She also talks about NeHC’s recent patient engagement summit.
July 5, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In this podcast, Mike Costa, senior advisor at Impact Advisors, a Naperville, Ill.-based health IT consulting firm, talks with Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna about the ICD-10 transition. Over the past year, the transition to ICD-10 has remained a prominent issue in the health policy landscape, affecting providers, payers, and state and federal agencies alike. With the uncertainty surrounding ICD-10 hanging over head, Costa talks about several issues pertaining to ICD-10 including why he thinks providers are resisting it so adamantly.
July 5, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In a two-part podcast series, John Moore, Chilmark Research's founder and managing partner, shares highlights of his second annual HIE report. In the first podcast Moore talks about what the Achilles heel of many HIEs is, plus the emergence of the micro-HIE and some prognostications for the public HIE market. In this podcast, he discusses how vendors are modularizing their offerings migrating toward PaaS, platform as a service solutions.
July 3, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Even as the last of the federal funds earmarked for public health information exchanges (HIEs) run dry this year, rapid growth and evolution continues to define the nascent HIE market, according to a report released by Chilmark Research, a Cambridge, Mass.-based analyst firm focusing solely on the healthcare IT market. The report, "2012 HIE Market Report: Analysis and Trends," uncovers a market that is making a significant shift to serving healthcare organizations of all sizes.
June 21, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In efforts to "turbocharge" the understanding of population health, performance, and quality, the Office of the National Coordinator founded the Query Health project to develop standards for distributed population queries. In this podcast, Rich Elmore, former coordinator, Query Health, and vice president of strategic initiatives, Allscripts, shares the background of this initiative and how Farzad Mostashari, national coordinator, ONC, started the underpinnings of Query Health when he was the director of the Primary Care Information Project at the New York City Department of Public Health.
May 30, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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On the heels of Healthcare Informatics releasing the HCI 100, Fran Turisco, a Boston-based director at the Pittsburgh-based consulting firm, Aspen Advisors, joins HCI Associate Editor Gabriel Perna on a podcast to talk about the current health IT vendor market. Turisco, who was also recently named a member of the Healthcare Informatics Editorial Board, talked about the lack of movement at the top of the list and why it seems like there is a small list of dominant players in terms of EHR/EMR vendors. She also talked about what smaller vendors have to do differentiate themselves, and where the industry headed within the next few years.
May 24, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Every year as a part of our Healthcare Informatics 100 issue, we highlight the year’s biggest deals, plus a host of smaller-but still significant-acquisitions in an annual mergers and acquisitions report. In this podcast, Ben Rooks, founder of ST Advisors, LLC, an HCIT-focused advisory firm that serves both companies and their investors, and Healthcare Informatics editorial boardmember, talks about how important the private equity sector was to the healthcare IT space, some of the most interesting acquisitions, and why there weren’t more high profile transactions in 2011.
May 7, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In this podcast, Healthcare Informatics Assistant Editor Gabriel Perna talks with Deloitte’s senior advisor for healthcare transformation and technology, Harry Greenspun, M.D. on the subject of mobile health (mHealth) and patient engagement. Dr. Greenspun talked about how these two issues interconnect, how mHealth must evolve to properly engage patients, and how payment reimbursements play into everything.
May 7, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In this podcast live from the HCI Executive Summit, Jeffrey Rose, M.D., vice president of clinical excellence, Informatics, Ascension Health, discusses how his 81-hospital integrated healthcare system, located in St. Louis, is moving forward with its CMS Pioneer ACO and other accountable care initiatives and what his organization has learned so far. This podcast was recorded after Dr. Rose's panel, "ACOs: Policy Strategic and IT Issues," a the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit being held May 6 through the 8 at the World Center Marriott in Orlando. He was joined on this panel by colleagues Daniel Garrett, leader, Health Information Technology Practice, PriceWaterhouseCoopers; Sam VanNorman, director of business intelligence at Park Nicollet Health System; and Jeff Petry, vice president strategic initiatives, Premier Health Alliance.
May 7, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In this podcast, live from the HCI Executive Summit, Dr. Bobbie Byrne, vice president of IT of Edward Hospital discusses how her organization is approaching data warehousing and the integration of clinical systems necessary for this initative. This podcast was recorded after Dr. Byrne's panel, "Beyond the Data Warehouse: Strategizing the Use and Analysis of Clinical Data for Meaningful Use," a the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit being held May 6 through the 8 at the World Center Marriott in Orlando. Bryne was joined on the panel by colleagues Rick Schooler, vice president and CIO at Orlando Health; 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.
April 25, 2012 John DeGaspari
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In this second 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 challenges of implementing dashboards, the uptake at the hospital, and how the use of dashboards has helped to change the culture at the hospital. 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.
