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Why Doctors Are Heading for Texas

Normally I write about Healthcare IT but today’s Why Doctors Are Heading for Texas article in the Wall Street Journal caught my attention. Here’s why: Today obstetricians, surgeons and other doctors might consider reviving the practice. Over the past three years, some 7,000 M.D.s have flooded into Texas, many from Tennessee. [Why Doctors Are Heading for Texas] Corbis Sam Houston. Why? Two words: Tort reform. In 2003 and in 2005, Texas enacted a series of reforms to the state’s civil justice system.

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HealthCampMD in June

HealthCampMD (http://barcamp.org/HealthCampMd) will look at Social Networks, Web 2.0 technology and Data Portability as it might impact the Health Care industry. This will be a meeting of minds of technologists and health care professionals interested in the evolution of the Health Care industry. Check out the information page at http://barcamp.org/HealthCampMd and sign up! If you live nearby in MD, VA, or DC please pass along this message.

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High-impact and High-value Medical Innovation

I love it when my readers send me links and tips and I got a great one from Bioxpert (name withheld per request): Hi, Longtime reader, first time tipper. Love your blog! I went to a fantastic presentation at Harvard Med School on High Impact Clinical Innovation -techniques for physicians to innovate within their specialties. It was sponsored by CIMIT and features a presentation by Zen Chu, a local venture capitalist and medical device entrepreneur.

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The Top 100 Open Source Software Tools for Medical Professionals

The folks at LiveSmarter have put together their list of the Top 100 Open Source Software Tools for Medical Professionals. It includes the following subject areas: Medical Billing and Electronic Medical Records Antivirus, Security and Privacy Communications Graphics and Imaging Content Management Tools Research and Reference Multimedia Storing Patient Information General Tools that Work for Everyone Collaboration Tools Storing, Sharing and Managing Files and For Patients It’s a nice list, worth checking out.

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Guest Article: Practical Identity Management for Healthcare

In the past, I’ve written a number of postings on Identity Management for Healthcare. I recently contacted Ash Motiwala, CTO of Identropy to weigh in on the subject. Ash and Identropy have plenty of real-life experience deploying Identity Management systems in the healthcare arena, and are industry innovators with their managed identity services platform, iMIS. Identropy also provides identity infrastructure assessments, integration services and workshops to aid organizations find their identity management roadmap.

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The state of healthcare IT in the Middle East

A reader, Rami Yousef, wrote me yesterday asking the following: What are your views on the healthcare industry in the Middle East, are they moving in the right direction in converting their clinics to e-clinics? Since I live and work in the USA I know this market well but don’t really have much of an idea about how the Middle East healthcare IT industry is faring. I know I have many readers around the world, and based on Google Analytics, some of you are in the Middle East.

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Dr. Ankush’s Essential knowledge for entering the healthcare field

Many of my friends and readers of my other blogs (like my Architecture one) often ask me where they can get information about “how to get into healthcare.” As the IT field has grown in many verticals, healthcare among them, specialization provides more job security and better opportunities. Dr. Ankush Shinde sent me this note a little while ago: I am regular reader of your blog. Please find <a href="[attached document][2]{#p419} it contains essential comprehensive references for healthcare information technology professionals.

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Insurer finds EMRs won’t pay off for its doctors

AMNews reports: The Massachusetts Blues believes that the return on physicians’ investment doesn’t warrant buying the technology as part of its bonus programs. One health plan has come to a conclusion that many physicians already have reached: The financial benefits of office-based electronic medical records systems are not worth the cost to doctors. Relying on information from past studies, including an American Medical Association estimate that doctors see only 11 cents of every dollar saved through the use of information technology, BlueCross BlueShield of Massachusetts recently announced that it has decided not to require physicians to install an EMR to participate in its bonus program.

Shahid N. Shah

Guest Article: IT Security and Record Management in Healthcare

Many of my readers have been asking about security, privacy, and HIPAA these days. I thought I would reach out an expert — Dr. Zachary Peterson. Zachary is a Senior Security Analyst at Independent Security Evaluators a computer security consulting firm in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Peterson earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at The Johns Hopkins University, where his dissertation was on new technologies to meet regulatory compliant storage system. He also has a Masters in Security Informatics and a Masters in Computer Science.

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