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I am Shahid N. Shah, the CEO of Netspective Communications which is a software consultancy whose actionable advice and disciplined approach delivers custom software for in-house, outsourced, or offshore solutions. For the past 15 years I have held the positions of CEO, CTO, VP of Technology, Chief Software Architect, or Enterprise Architect at various mid- to large-size firms. I am an expert at discovering practical technology solutions to real-world business initiatives, especially in the healthcare, government, and financial services sectors.
I run three successful blogs. At http://shahid.shah.org I write about architecture issues, at http://www.healthcareguy.com I provide valuable insights on how to apply technology in healthcare, and at http://www.hitsphere.com I give a glimpse of the health-care IT blogosphere as an aggregator.
I am available as a subject for media interviews, consulting, and speaking engagements. You can reach me using any of the following methods:
Email: shahid@shah.org
Phone: 202-572-8179
AOL IM: ShahidNShah
MSN IM: shahid@shah.org
If you like what you see here or have some general comments or suggestions, please feel free to drop me a note below.
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Dear Shahid,
I’ve been a fan of your blog for a couple of years now.
As a fellow technologist whose passion runs deep for practical technology solutions to real-world business initiatives, I would like to know if you are interested in writing and investigating a company that should be right up your alley.
Crossflo Systems is a java based software company that was founded on the premise of allowing the healthcare industry to share electronic medical records, by one of the leaders in the field: Dr. Bill Mohlenbrock.
Dr. Mohlenbrock has been working on this issue for over 35 years and started crossflo to solve this incredibly important problem.
If you are interested, and I do hope you are, I’d be delighted to make an introduction. I believe that you two would really hit it off.
Sincerley,
Philip Graham
Shahid, so far your site looks to be very informative with a fresh and direct perspective. I am interested in knowing if you would recommend putting a PACS system on VMware?
Thank you
Jamie Shepard
Jamie — thanks for the kind words. Yes, a PACS application would work fine on VMware ESX but I would keep the storage on a NAS or SAN (as opposed to inside the VM). With that being said, what are you hoping to gain from virtualizing the PACS (server consolidation, DR, etc)?
Hi,
Just wondering if you have any information about Clinical Research Software designed for research sites. I have researched three of them…Velos, StudyManager and iMedRIS but they don’t seem to meet our needs. Any other suggestions? Thanks.
Hi Shahid
Recently I made the transition from a role focused mostly on informatics for discovery to one where a large portion of my time is spent looking at more downstream applications (medical/clinical informatics). Your blog has really helped me understand some of the challenges that exist in healthcare systems, some of are not quite that obvious to me.
Deepak — you are most kind, thanks for the note. If you have some other topic ideas for postings, please let me know.
Shahid
As translational medicine begins to start making inroads ands and various PGx/Dx approaches make their way into the clinic, one of the challenges I see is the disconnect between bioinformatics/BioIT (my world) and medical informatics/HealthcareIT (your world). I would love to hear your perspective on these issues/challenges.
Deepak, I couldn’t agree with you more. In fact, the deeper we get into real health (versus just demographics and health business management) systems the more the worlds of Bio IT collide with Health IT. I don’t think there really should be a difference in the next 150 to 20 years as “personalized medicine” becomes more prevalent.
Hi Shahid.
I find your approach to HIT very refreshing. I’d like to get your perspective on the intersection of HIT and emergency preparedness. My company, LiveProcess, is the leader in the field and what has been fascinating to me is that although most people say “if you’ve seen one hospital, you’ve seen one hospital,” incident command, which is the common language of emergency preparedness, is the same in every single healthcare facility. This scaleability has been the key to our success, and I believe it has significant portent in being able to piggyback EHRs that would be necessary in any national emergency. What are your thoughts on the intersection of emergency preparedness and HIT?
Hi, Im really interesting in your work. I just wanted to ask you if you can help me to answer this question: Why its important to maintain excellent health is so necessary when working as health care professional? This question is for my report and please help me because the report due on monday. I wanted more information that can help me to answer this question. Please respond back soon by email me (m_pulou03@yahoo.com). I will look forward to hear from you. Thank you.
May
Hi Mr.Shah,
I have just gone thru your blog. Very useful info for IT/Health care people.
I currently work in a Clinical Lab as a clinical/Medical Technologist in a State run Clinical laboratory, I have taken a few courses in Health informatics. I am really interested in taking up a career in healthcare IT and if possible project management in Healthcare. could you please suggest how to channel my interests? Pl let me know how do I start to go about it?
Your reply will be greatly appreciated
Warm Regards
JR
Have been reading your blog off and on for a while. I recently came across a site called www.trustrex.com when researching another issue. Apparently allows patients to register online with any doctor that is registered with the site. After that, patients can apparently communicate securely with the doctor after logging in. Thought it might be something worth checking out. The online registration alone is great for anyone whose had to fill out that paperwork while sick or with kids running around.
Take care,
Ed
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I’m a great fan of your website Healthcareguy. I always read interesting article and views.I would like to know hows the Health care sector in Middle east (Saudi Arabia and guld region). Since my gradauting with MBA- healthcare this year and I want to work back home (saudi arabia). Can you advise me regarding the jobs or connections over there. I really appreciate that.
Thanks