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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 are the only real salvation for the healthcare IT industry.

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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 some significantly advanced technology at our fingertips it bothered me even more that there was no way to know what was going on without asking the front desk receptionist every 5 minutes.

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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? And it had a few key takeaways: Understand health tech buyer fallacies Understand PBU: Payer vs.

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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 (“big data”) isn’t anywhere near as important as “actionable data” or “useful data” – by focusing on, and frankly scaring people with, the term “big data” we’re undermining the potential immediate utility of all kinds of “small 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 Challenge sessions use the “lightening” format where each participant has 5 or fewer minutes to do their demo before the next one starts (barely 30 seconds of transition between demos).

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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 the essentials of Telehealth and Telemedicine? Shahid: Telehealth and Telemedicine are about extending health care from physical institutions, where it has most recently resided, to where the patients can receive care at home or other more convenient locations.

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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 how we should decide which features to add came up. Here’s are just a few of the facets I talked about during that lecture:

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First wave of MU Stage 2 (2014 Edition) Draft Test Procedures Released

If you’re in charge of getting your software ready for MU Stage 2, please be sure to keep a regular eye on the 2014 Edition Draft Test Procedures page on the ONC site. Here’s the overview: The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has posted the first wave of draft Test Procedures and applicable test data files for the 2014 Edition EHR certification criteria. The Test Procedures, once finalized and approved by the National Coordinator, will be used for testing and certifying EHR technology under the ONC HIT Certification Program (formerly referred to as the Permanent Certification Program or PCP).

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