May 6, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Halfway through David Muntz’s excellent opening keynote address at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit this afternoon (May 6), I was struck once again by the sense that his having joined the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) four months ago may have marked a significant turning point for the federal agency. Let’s call it the Muntz Effect.
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 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.
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?
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 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...
March 1, 2012 Mark Hagland
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The sense of frenetic activity and anticipation was never greater in the healthcare IT sphere than last week, during the HIMSS12 conference in Las Vegas. I can’t remember a HIMSS conference that was more frenetic. What I think is particularly important at times like this is to have bold, passionate, clear-eyed leaders in our midst, women and men who can peer into the future and help lead their colleagues forward into it.
