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HIMSS13 debrief podcast with Gregg Masters, John Lynn, and Dr. Pat Salber

Following HiMSS13 in New Orleans I sat down last month in a BlogTalkRadio broadcast with Dr. Pat Salber (@DocWeighsIn @HealthTechHatch), Gregg Masters (@2healthguru @ACOwatch) and John Lynn (@techguy) with a ‘debrief’ of our key HIMSS13 take-aways as well as our latest venture, Influential Networks. I covered the following topics in the podcast: The HIMSS 13 cheerleading and “echo chamber” Are we moving faster with MU than the industry can really accomodate?

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Reducing Shadow IT in healthcare by embracing “good enough for HIPAA” business-friendly SaaS tools

I’ve said repeatedly that any cloud / SaaS vendor that wants to be taken seriously in healthcare must be willing to sign a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA) and I was happy to hear that Box.com is now willing to do so. I’m quite pleased that we’re finally seeing some serious healthcare SaaS offerings from horizontal (non-healthcare-specific) vendors. Only when we move beyond healthcare-specific offerings will we be able to unshackle ourselves from the decades old legacy health IT vendors and that’s great news.

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What’s Next for Healthcare Information Technology Innovation

Last week the Greater Chicago Chapter of HIMSS invited me to participate in their healthcare technology webinar series. I covered the topic “What’s Next for Healthcare Information Technology Innovation?” and the screencast with audio has been posted here. I covered numerous topics that are helpful for entrepreneurs and engineers that want to create innovative healthcare technology.

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Guest Article: Crawl, walk, and then run towards analytics and big data in healthcare

I posted an article recently concerning the need to be more practical in the use of data vs. the need to go after the latest buzzwords, i.e. Big Data. Dan Reber posted a great comment on the article that I found enlightening so I reached out to him to expand on his thinking. Dan is in charge of product strategy at Origin Healthcare Solutions for their Business and Clinical Intelligence application (Precision.

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Guest Article: How to use WebID to create Single Sign On (SSO) across Healthcare Systems

I have been speaking and writing often these days about how single sign on (SSO) technologies are probably one of the most important components of health IT data integration. To help figure out how to integrate multiple systems using standards-based SSO approaches I reached out to Shahid Qadri, a Data Scientist and Software Developer for Applied informatics Inc. Qadri works on health data integration and semantic web and when I heard that he created a solution (which won second place) for an ONC single sign on challenge I thought he’d be the perfect engineer to help the rest of us.

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Protect yourself from Shadow IT, embrace “good enough for HIPAA” secure cloud services like Box and Skydrive

It’s a common misconception that if executives at hospitals or practices don’t have time to deliver sophisticated IT solutions to their users that users will just wait patiently and hope that solutions will arrive someday. However, there is a larger Shadow IT movement in many clinical settings than senior executives are willing to admit. Given the wealth of cloud offerings available, many of which have better security in the cloud than some on-premises “clinical” solutions, Shadow IT is growing and will cause more problems in the future as we try to reign it in.

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Guest Article: Try not to fall for the Big Data in Healthcare hype, focus on actionable data that can improve clinical workflows

Many readers write to me regularly to ask what I think about “Big Data” in healthcare. I tell them that Big Data in our field is generally more hype than reality right now but that there’s a lot of promise and opportunity. To help elaborate on why this might be the case I’ve asked my friend Naeem Hashmi, Chief Research Officer at Information Frameworks, to give us his thoughts. Naeem has written a number of books on the subject of informatics and analytics and been on the front lines of engineering large scale healthcare systems to generate data for clinical analytical purposes.

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Guest Article: How to test health IT interoperability

One of the key tenets of both the HITECH and Affordable Care Acts has been to drive improved patient care and reduction in cost by applying technology across all healthcare entities. A bigger challenge is how do to make multiple technology purchases interoperate within a provider network and / or across provider networks. There are solutions out there that can make it happen, but to make sure interoperability happens consistently, testing technology integration touch points is crucial but not easy without the right test infrastructure.

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A few tips for those just getting started with content sharing and blogging

The popularity of blogs has been a given for years now but now that experienced professionals have tools like LinkedIn Groups, Google+, and even Facebook I often get asked for tips on what kind of content/information is “best” to be shared. I don’t know that I have any definitive answers but here are some suggestions based on the kinds of content I share with my readers: Focus on actionable advice and talk to people as if they’re smart enough to act on what you’re suggesting.

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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 invited us to help HIMSS Exhibitors understand how best to use social media to get the most out of their 2013 Conference investment.

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