September 1, 2011 John DeGaspari
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Natural disasters have been on a lot of people’s minds lately, most recently, on the East Coast, anyway, as Hurricane hit land last week and caused devastation to cities and towns in its path. According to a report in the New York Times, total damage inflicted by the storm could reach $7 billion, based on an early estimate by Kinetic Analysis Corp., Silver Spring, Md.
February 8, 2011
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As many of us know, Twitter and Facebook are beginning to eclipse Google as the most valuable Web properties on the Internet. Many CIOs continue to grapple with the implications of social networking on communication within the enterprise. We are experimenting in the very early stages of using Twitter-like technology on our campus within the walls of the enterprise.
February 8, 2011 Bobbie Byrne, M.D.
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Like every other hospital, we have disaster drills. We have plans. We have competencies to be tested against. But then this disaster hit and the one thing happened that we did not have a great plan for—a mobile command center.
August 9, 2010 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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After Hurricane Katrina left death and destruction in its wake, Mississippi learned the value of the electronic health record, as physician practices that weren’t entirely flooded, dried their paper records on the sidewalk. Out of this tragedy sprung the hope of the Mississippi Coastal Health Information Exchange. James S. McIlwain, M.D., CEO and President, IQH & Co-Chairman of the Mississippi Health Information Infrastructure and Task Force Grant Administrator for the Mississippi Coastal Health Information Exchange, spoke with HCI associate editor about what challenges he and his team have been facing trying to put together the pieces of this coastal health information exchange.
October 27, 2009 Kate Huvane Gamble
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Terry Evans On Aug. 18, 2009, the scenario every CIO dreads became a reality for Chuck Podesta when Fletcher Allen Health Care suffered an outage
September 22, 2009
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Speaking to a CIO whose organization recently made headlines with an unplanned downtime.
September 15, 2009
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ntil a few short weeks ago, Dale Sanders was VP and CIO of the Chicago-based Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation in Chicago. Sanders, a very active CIO, is also an esteemed contributor and blogger at Healthcare Informatics. His first day on the job as new CIO of the Cayman Islands Health Services Authority (HSA) turned into a trial by fire, as the Conflicker virus prompted an emergency shutdown of all HSA’s major systems.
July 21, 2009 Kate Huvane Gamble
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This past spring, several areas of the United States were impacted by the outbreak of H1N1, also known as Swine Flu.
September 2, 2008
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It would have been just too cruel — too coincidental, too unjust, whatever you want to call it — if the people of New Orleans were hit with another
