September 2010

Give your opinion on whether you think RECs will deliver on their mission

Earlier this week the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced the selection of the final two regional extension centers (RECs). The two RECs provide coverage for Orange County California and the state of New Hampshire. This brings the total count up to 62 and completes the national network of RECs. [...]

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Guest Article: How desktop virtualization helps healthcare IT initiatives

I’ve been getting many questions about whether hospitals and physician offices should be considering desktop virtualization (there’s a fear that virtualization is not secure or may not work). To help answer the question, I invited Ryan Pope, a Product Manager at 2X Software which develops enterprise server-based virtual computing software, to tell us a bit [...]

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Boosting the productivity of clinical workers

McKinsey Quarterly recently published “Boosting the productivity of knowledge workers” (free registration required to access the link). While the article is not specific to clinical or IT workers, they wrote that “the key is identifying and addressing the barriers workers face in their daily interactions” which couldn’t be more true in a clinical setting. The [...]

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How To Pick IT Consultants for Various Technical Tasks

The editors at The Journal of Surgical Radiology recently asked me to write a column on what I thought would be an important IT topic. Given the number of healthcare providers I’ve consulted with and counsel on a regular basis one of the most common questions I get is “how do I know which consultants [...]

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