- Health Care Renewal: Medical Informatics and Leadership of Clinical Computing: Ivy League University Decides On An Enlightened Approach – As Associate Dean for Information Technology, the candidate will oversee Penn Medicine’s Chief Information Officer, jointly with the Chief Administrative Officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. In this role, the candidate will have a leadership role in formulating and implementing an enterprise-wide vision for research and administrative IT in the School of Medicine, and for clinical IT for the health system.
Posts Tagged ‘cmio’
Health Care Renewal: Medical Informatics and Leadership of Clinical Computing: Ivy League University Decides On An Enlightened Approach
November 25th, 2008 | Popularity: 13% 0 comments | Leave a replyMore Hospitals Begin To Pay Physicians for Health IT Input – iHealthBeat
September 6th, 2008 | Popularity: 17% 0 comments | Leave a reply- More Hospitals Begin To Pay Physicians for Health IT Input – iHealthBeat – What is the value of physician (and nursing) input in HIT installations? How about patients? I think some organizations are more mature than others when it comes to conceptualizing the customer in this work.
Characterizing the Health Information Technology Workforce
May 29th, 2008 | Popularity: 21% 0 comments | Leave a reply- Characterizing the Health Information Technology Workforce – An analysis of the HIMSS Analytics Database about the FTE currently deployed and recommended nationally for HIT. The issue of MD's in HIT (e.g. number present and needed) is still unknown. From OHSU's Informatics Team.
The CMIO–A New Leader for Health Systems — Leviss et al. 13 (5): 573 — Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
May 29th, 2008 | Popularity: 21% 0 comments | Leave a reply- The CMIO–A New Leader for Health Systems — Leviss et al. 13 (5): 573 — Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association – Helpful overview of the qualities of CMIO. I didn't realize how "new" this position is in health care. Nice to see confirmation that good CMIO's are good physicians primarily.
A Few Links Regarding the Continuity of Care Record (CCR) Standard
May 22nd, 2008 | Popularity: 80% 3 commentsMay 15th through May 18th:
- CCR Product Compatibility List — AAFP Center for Health Information Technology – Adoption list of CCR – not up to date, but gives a glimpse of who has been involved.
- Montana Healthshare – Montana organization to use CCR to improve population health
- Solventus CEND/PHR – A reference implementation of a PHR using CCD, developed by Stephen Waldren, MD and David Kibbe, MD
- PDF Healthcare – A technology platform for enclosing historical documents – can contain a CCR
- SourceForge.net: CCR Acceleration Resources Project – The XSLT transofrm from XML -> HTML for CCR
- www.ccrstandard.com – Continuity of Care Record (CCR)Standard — Resource Site _uacct = “UA-2242673-1″; urchinTracker(); – Home base for CCR
- “I hope that some day you get your wish” – "Medicine has a 100% failure rate" – a discussion of physicians in information technology.
- The WETA Guide to Fine Dining | WETA TV 26 – A nice series on DC treasures
- The Health Care Blog: PODCAST/CONSUMERS/TECH: Interview with Joseph Kvedar, Partners’ Connected Health guru – Information about ConnectedHealth and the EMC pilot they are doing
Getting out of IT prision through employee asset management; DC still growing up
March 15th, 2008 | Popularity: 64% 0 comments | Leave a replyMarch 12th through March 13th:
- DCist: Columbia Heights Target Crime Update – There’s an interesting debate going on about the value of big box retailers in urban areas. I believe a similar debate has been in play in Seattle for some time. DC is growing up. Oh, and this Target is walking distance from me.
- Business Technology : Why Businesses Banish Cool Technologies – These businesses, unlike the ones in the next link, are the ones that may find themselves challenged when it comes to recruiting GenX and GenY staff and leaders. Maybe there’s a way out, see the next link.
- Why a worker says ‘it feels like I just got out of IT prison’ | Technology | The Guardian – Employee asset ownership may be a good way for IT to support innovation in large organizations. Ask BP and Unisys. And the GenX and GenY staff that will expect to use technology to its fullest.
- AHLTA 2008 – National Forum on the Future of the Defense Health Information System; supporting care for a vulnerable population (the enlisted and returning veterans).
- Developing Rails Applications on Mac OS X Leopard – Nice guide to R on R on Leopard
A CIO that embraces 2.0; Walmart going into the EHR business?; The Superfriends
February 18th, 2008 | Popularity: 39% 0 comments | Leave a replyFebruary 10th through February 14th:
- Wal-Mart To Open 400 Retail Health Clinics With EHRs – iHealthBeat – WalMart to become an EHR vendor to itself?
- Life as a Healthcare CIO: Always Look on the Bright Side – Terrific guide to being glass 3/4 full. Save as Draft – priceless
- Medicine meets a culture gap – USATODAY.com – American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons is taking a leadership role in cultural competency. The medical profession still struggles with this concept, unfortunately.
- Super Friends – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Who wants to be who in the patient-centered physician world? I’d like to be one of the wonder twins.
- Life as a Healthcare CIO: Web Content Management Systems – Right on to a CIO of an IT Department with this approach: “2008 will be the year of Web 2.0 for all my organizations”
Facts are what you see on the ground; Being in your 20’s in the 2000’s; RHIO closure
November 15th, 2007 | Popularity: 37% 0 comments | Leave a reply- The Changing 20s – Brookings Institution – Information / data about being in your 20’s in the 2000’s
- Lean Manufacturing Blog, Kaizen Articles and Advice | Gemba Panta Rei – Toyota places emphasis on facts learned at the Gemba.
- Life as a Healthcare CIO: The Tyranny of the Urgent – John Halamka, MD, posts his 1 year and 5 year plan on his blog. Way to be transparent.
- Modern Healthcare Online: Patient Safety Institute Closes Its Doors – YAR (yet another rhio….)
- CDC Reports Rise In EMR Usage – Slightly more physicians are using comprehensive EMR’s – but still at 12%
