February 2010

More HIMSS tips for HIT vendors looking to make their case

James Gibson over at Gibson Consultants (a specialized executive search firm targeting healthcare solutions providers and the payor market) saw my recent posting about John Moore’s tips for HIT vendors presenting to us analysts at HIMSS and sent me a note about guest posting on his blog that talks about a similar subject. I wanted [...]

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Thank goodness, the FDA could start regulating healthcare IT systems

A few years ago I wrote that the FDA should be paying closer attention to healthcare IT systems and consider regulating those systems the same as any other medical devices. After all, some healthcare IT systems can kill just as easily as medical devices. I hate quoting myself, but here’s what I wrote back in [...]

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Tips for HIT vendors speaking to analysts at HIMSS

John Moore over at Chilmark Research is one smart cookie; in addition to being a world expert on PHRs , he’s a great analyst on general healthcare IT (HIT) topics, too. With HIMSS coming up next and analysts like myself and John being requested to review firms and their products, John has done a great [...]

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Physician Office Usage of Electronic Healthcare Records Software

SK&A recently surveyed 180,000 medical sites as to their current usage of EHR. That’s one of the largest national surveys I’ve seen — the numbers are about what we expect but it’s great to see that someone actually spent the time doing real research instead of just quoting other smaller surveys. Seems like the SK&A [...]

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Guest Article: Human Centering in Healthcare IT

I’ve been spending a lot of time on human-computer interactions in healthcare technology these days (both hardware and software). It’s a very hard problem to solve, especially with complex systems like EMRs. To help talk more about how to better design patient-centric healthcare technology, I’ve reached out to Steven Deal,  Vice President and systems engineer [...]

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Meet the bloggers (and other New Media personalities) at HIMSS

I’m hoping to see many of my friends at HIMSS this year and I’m working with great folks like John Lynn to setup several unofficial meetups at HIMSS for those of us reading or writing blogs or other New Media tech like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. Our previous HIMSS meetups have been fun and productive [...]

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Report: How to get your hands on $900 Million in Federal Health IT and $70 Billion in Health Tech

Here’s a new report you’ll like if you’re interested in getting your contractor hands on federal healthcare tech dollars (including health IT). Here’s the introduction from the report: The U.S. Federal government will spend more than $385 billion on healthcare – not including Medicare spending – in GFY2010. Nearly $70 billion of that will go [...]

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