How to differentiate your health IT product and services, another webinar next week

John Lynn and I teamed up with Cari McLean (@carimclean) and Michael Gaspar (@MichaelGaspar) from the HIMSS Social Media team to talk about how to differentiate your products and services at the HIMSS 2013 Conference. Cari and Michael are two social media experts and were a joy to work with. We were humbled that they [...]

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Just because we have apps for smartphones doesn’t mean we have real mobility in healthcare

App47 CEO and co-founder Chris Schroeder hosts a great podcast series called “What’s Appening!” in which he covers topics around enterprise-grade Mobile Application Management for securely deploying, managing, and analyzing business-critical mobile apps. Chris interviewed me for a recent episode in which we spoke at length about the management of enterprise healthcare apps, what mobility means in healthcare, and why technically-savvy clinicians [...]

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Leveraging digital signage for more than patient education and marketing – real service improvement

Earlier in the week I was in a waiting room for a physician visit and as I sat there for much longer than I wanted, I kept wondering “what patient number am I and how many people will be seen before me?” Given that we are in the trailing days of the year 2012 with [...]

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What’s next for healthcare information technology innovation?

In Nashville on Friday, at the Vanderbilt Healthcare Conference, I gave a short talk on a panel focused on the question “What’s next for healthcare information technology innovation?” The talk focused on answering a couple of key questions: What does innovation in healthcare mean? Where are the major areas in healthcare where innovation is required? [...]

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‘Practical Data’, ‘Actionable Data’ and ‘Useful Data’ vs. ‘Big Data’ in healthcare and medical devices sector

Having recently spoken at about a half dozen conferences on the subject of big data in government and healthcare I’ve come to the conclusion that we’re focusing, at least in healthcare, on the wrong topic. When we’re dealing with individual patients, and even population health across multiple patients, the size and velocity of the data [...]

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Do’s and Dont’s for effective “lightening” demos of your health IT product

I’ll be moderating the the first of 3 “Innovator’s Challenge” sessions at the Partners 2012 Connected Health Symposium & Expo. It’s not easy for a company to be selected for a prestigious demo session like this and if the demos are done right they can help the company gain traction in the market. The Innovator’s [...]

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Essentials of telehealth and telemedicine, top Do’s and Don’ts, mHealth and other health IT advice

I recently participated in a wonderful 55 minute video interview conducted by Nirav Desai for his Hands On TeleHealth Interview show. I wanted to thank Nirav for leading an insightful discussion; you can watch the video on Nirav’s site but I wanted to capture the essence of the interview in the transcription below. Nirav: What are [...]

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Join me in Boston on Nov 1st and 2nd to learn about how to build health IT cloud agents and med device gateways

I’ve been invited back to speak at the Fourth Annual Medical Device Connectivity Conference (MDCC), one of the best practical and “get the job done” kind conferences that I attend all year. I’ll be talking on a panel, giving a short lecture, and doing another workshop. If you haven’t signed up for MDCC yes, please [...]

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How do you decide which features to add to your software?

Given the well-warranted focus on design these days it’s always difficult to find the right balance between features that we should add to our software and those that we leave out. I was running a class recently on how to build product roadmaps for health IT apps / medical device software and the question of [...]

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Should you partner with another technology / services company to help sell your product?

Over the last few weeks a number of clients and readers have asked a similar question: I’ve been approached by company X to partner with us. Do you know them and what do you think we should do? Since many startups, especially technology firms, partner for the wrong reasons and end up having failed or [...]

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