healthcare

Physicians are not technology averse

As a thought leader in the healthcare IT space I get a lot of emails that blame physicians for not changing their behavior and not more more easily accepting information technology. The IT solutions folks and vendors often complain "if only physicians would just accept our system the hospital would benefit, the government would get [...]

7 comments Read the full article →

Guest Article: The Hottest Jobs in Healthcare IT

Given all the attention being given to healthcare IT these days (especially because of the stimulus bill), many of my readers were wondering how to get into the market (jobs, contracts, etc). I asked Sarah Scrafford, who regularly writes on the topic of pharmacy technician online programs, to tell us what she’s seeing these days. [...]

2 comments Read the full article →

Guest Article: How to do real clinical interoperability right now

Last week I asked Charlie Harp to explain what clinical interoperability is – in plain english. Charlie is the CEO and founder of Clinical Architecture and has spent the last twenty years designing and developing software solutions in the healthcare industry.  Here’s what he had to say in his third part of a series I’ve [...]

3 comments Read the full article →

Guest Article: Why does clinical interoperability matter?

Last week I asked Charlie Harp to explain what clinical interoperability is – in plain english. Charlie is the CEO and founder of Clinical Architecture and has spent the last twenty years designing and developing software solutions in the healthcare industry.  Here’s what he had to say in his second part of a series I’ll [...]

6 comments Read the full article →

Guest Article: Getting beyond the hype and hyperbole – what is clinical interoperability?

There is so much hype around healthcare and clinical data interoperability – I get emails all the time asking about what all of it means and the comments I received on the recent articles about it have been great. I’ve posted about interoperability before but I thought I’d reach out to Charlie Harp to see [...]

2 comments Read the full article →

A great visual for healthcare IT interoperability

Bart Collet posted a comment to Dr. Rowley’s recent guest article on interoperability – he said the following diagram is a great way to show how inflexible many healthcare IT systems are these days: I love the picture, thanks Bart. Too many of our healthcare IT systems look like the device on the bottom – [...]

13 comments Read the full article →