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Effective forms management improves healthcare data quality
Is “cloud security” an oxymoron? Join us at CDW’s #HIMSS17 booth on Monday at 3pm to find out.
#IBMWoW cognitive solutions for cyber threat analysis and collaboration
Cognitive ushers us from “carbon intelligence” to AI “silicon intelligence”
Digitally managed clinical trials will accelerate results and reduce costs
Health IoT creates huge opportunities for public health and software companies
Could Apple Store-like digital health retail stores be popular?
Reimbursements red herring, trust, and key infrastructure needs for Telemedicine success
Impacts we can expect from ICD-10 transition
How health IT enables safer medical travel and tourism
HealthIMPACT Southwest recap: CIOs think dashboards need significant improvement
How health IT can deliver on the promise of Medical Travel
Shahid’s No BS guide to patient engagement at #HIMSS15
Evaluating and choosing healthcare cloud services providers
Congress finally getting serious about telemedicine, but are CDOs ready?
Social selling of Medical Devices is hard but necessary
Entrepreneurs must integrate mission-driven strategic investors
Patients say deploying a patient portal isn’t enough to engage them
Digital health startups should de-risk using strategically integrated investors
Is digital health innovation overrated?
7 digital health innovations and investments for 2015
Who should be held accountable for risk management and cybersecurity in healthcare institutions?
Second annual Healthcare IT Marketing Conference (HITMC)
Is Meaningful Use working and what can innovators do to help with EHR adoption?
Health IT and digital health job opportunities, qualifications, and certification benefits
Health-focused wearables have a chance of improving patient care if innovators craft solutions plus providers and insurers work together to incentivize and pay for them
Top 9 Insights for patient-centric Digital Health Innovators from the ENGAGE conference
The difference between User Stories and Software Requirements Specifications (SRS), especially for regulated systems (part 1)
When you’re looking to buy or replace your EHR, follow these common sense Dos and Don’ts for comparing EHR software
Patient portals have a future as a patient engagement tool if clinicians are on board and encourage their use
How to improve your SRS by distinguishing between vague and ambiguous requirements in health IT and medical device systems
ENGAGE can help pharma and biotech learn how to benefit from patient engagement
The future of medicine and the incredible innovations we can expect by 2064
Top Ten Insights for Digital Health Innovators from the Next Generation Point of Care Diagnostics Conference
Encryption at rest and encryption in transit for HIPAA compliance are not easy questions to answer
How to tackle vague requirements in health IT and medical device software using fuzzy logic and storytelling
Learn how to operationalize new health IT wisdom at HealthIMPACT Midwest in Chicago on September 8
To improve patient satisfaction, hospital supply chain units need better IT and next generation technology
Guest Article: OLAP remains a great healthcare analytics architecture, even in the Big Data era
What EHR/PM vendors should do as 63% of buyers look to replace existing PM solutions
Guest Article: HL7 FAQ and why exchanging critical patient data isn’t a nightmare
Guest Article: What EHR buyers and health IT vendors can learn from the Nashville market
Guest Article: Is Patient Generated Health Data (PGHD) trustworthy enough to use in health record banks?
There’s no difference between mHealth & telemedicine, come to ATA May 17-20 in Baltimore to learn more
Consolidation and other insights from the 2014 Meaningful Use EHR Market Share Report
More practical, relevant, and actionable health IT advice to be doled out at HealthIMPACT East in NYC on Wednesday
Guest Article: Secure message exchange using the Direct Protocol is not a myth, there really are people using it
Anecdote-driven systems engineering and complaint-based interoperability design will not solve health IT woes
What does it take to get beyond hype in health IT and focus on valuable, actionable, practical, relevant content?
Help us make sure HealthIMPACT events are useful and actionable
Learn how to cut through the noise at the first ever Health IT Marketing Conference
Meet up with me at my HIMSS’14 sessions and events
Join Stericyle Communication, John Lynn, and Shahid at the HIMSS’14 New Media Meetup
Keeping medical device designs relevant in a big data world migrating to outcomes-driven payment models
Why do Avon sales reps selling makeup deserve better usability than hospital physicians saving lives?
Moving from paper-native to digital-native requires disciplined Healthcare Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
Join me and other cheerleaders at the “Driving demand for Healthcare Interoperability” Pep Rally this Thursday in DC
If Meaningful Use disappeared, how would EHR vendors change their products?
The causes of digital patient privacy loss in EHRs and other health IT systems
HIMSS ’14 YourTurn is a conference customization option for unconference lovers
Guest Article: Digital health doesn’t stop with Meaningful Use, claims and payment technologies still matter
No, installing an MU certified EHR does not mean you’ll be document-free or paperless
The connected EHR, cooperative med devices, and accountable tech are the future of health IT
Guest Article: When Things Go Wrong, The Caterer Gets The Blame
Why is there a lack of sophisticated UX, usability, and UI discipline in the current design of safety-critical apps and devices?
Join me next week for a free webinar where I answer “How do we get beyond Meaningful Use rhetoric and ‘disruption in healthcare’ bloviation and into actionable innovation?”
Join me at the fifth annual Medical Device Connectivity Conference Nov 21-22 in DC (discount ends Monday)
Summary report from O’Reilly’s Strata Rx (“data in healthcare”) Conference
Why the health IT industry can accommodate hundreds of EHR solutions without major differentiation
Video: where I see health IT data today and where it’s probably going
Guest Article: Creating a Culture of Adoption for EHRs and Health IT
Thoughts on HIT (technical) certifications vs. graduate degrees
How liability distribution is holding back certain types of innovation in healthcare
Guest Article: Shakespeare in Namespace, or why Blue Button took off as fast as it did
Writing safety critical software using an agile, risk-based, approach should be the norm in modern medical device development
Getting beyond the hype of disruption in healthcare and focusing on actionable innovation
Guest Article: Achieving product simplicity in healthcare offerings is hard but possible
Guest Article: Iterative funnel management improvement to reduce health IT sales failures
Join me at MedCity ENGAGE: Unlocking Patient Engagement through Innovation, June 5-6, in Washington DC
Guest Article: How to improve health IT products sales into physician practices and hospitals through better funnel management
HIMSS13 debrief podcast with Gregg Masters, John Lynn, and Dr. Pat Salber
Reducing Shadow IT in healthcare by embracing “good enough for HIPAA” business-friendly SaaS tools
What’s Next for Healthcare Information Technology Innovation
Guest Article: Crawl, walk, and then run towards analytics and big data in healthcare
Guest Article: How to use WebID to create Single Sign On (SSO) across Healthcare Systems
Protect yourself from Shadow IT, embrace “good enough for HIPAA” secure cloud services like Box and Skydrive
Guest Article: Try not to fall for the Big Data in Healthcare hype, focus on actionable data that can improve clinical workflows
Guest Article: How to test health IT interoperability
A few tips for those just getting started with content sharing and blogging
How to differentiate your health IT product and services, another webinar next week
Just because we have apps for smartphones doesn’t mean we have real mobility in healthcare
Leveraging digital signage for more than patient education and marketing – real service improvement
What’s next for healthcare information technology innovation?
‘Practical Data’, ‘Actionable Data’ and ‘Useful Data’ vs. ‘Big Data’ in healthcare and medical devices sector
Do’s and Dont’s for effective “lightening” demos of your health IT product
Essentials of telehealth and telemedicine, top Do’s and Don’ts, mHealth and other health IT advice
Join me in Boston on Nov 1st and 2nd to learn about how to build health IT cloud agents and med device gateways
How do you decide which features to add to your software?
Should you partner with another technology / services company to help sell your product?
First wave of MU Stage 2 (2014 Edition) Draft Test Procedures Released
Guest Article: 8 Mistakes to Avoid when Securing Cloud Services
NIST’s Guide to Rating Software Vulnerabilities from Misuse might be helpful for health IT security
Telehealth means better care for patients and a new business opportunity for care delivery organizations
Guest Article: 5 more PACS interconnectivity and interoperability issues and their solutions
Guest Article: Top 10 Things Hospitals Should Do to Achieve Hard-Dollar ROI with their RTLS Asset Management Solution
Join me at Healthcare Unbound in San Francisco on July 19, 20 to discuss health IT platforms and big data in healthcare
Guest Article: Top 5 PACS interconnectivity and interoperability issues and their solutions
What healthcare can learn from the new Department of Defense (DoD) Mobility Device Strategy
Check out these videos if you’re looking for healthcare IT jobs
How to design next-generation EHR data models
Join me on June 2 in Baltimore to hear me speak about mHealth, cloud, wireless life sciences, patient access to EHRs, and Connected Medical Devices
Guest Article: In a world of cloud services, are HL7 interface engines dead?
What I learned at the HIMSS Conference about developments in Health IT for the rest of 2012
Take new practice management technologies to the bank as patients push for online services
Join me on Friday afternoon for the Military EHR Conference in Arlington, VA
Guest Article: Do’s and Dont’s of RFID in Hospitals
Meaningful Use Stage 2 NPRM means new opportunities for Medical Device and non-traditional Health IT Vendors
Tips from Real Users on How to Succeed with Electronic Medical Records
Guest Article: Techniques for matching patient record data across disparate EHRs and other systems
Join me in San Francisco on Monday where I’m talking about Using Android in Safety-Critical Medical Device Platforms
I’m speaking at NIH Clinical Center on Why Meaningful Use (MU) and EHRs are Insufficient for Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER)
Do’s and Don’ts of Telemedicine
Do’s and Don’ts of mobile/mHealth strategy for hospitals and HCPs
MU attestation vendor data available for analysis
Do’s and Don’ts of hospital health IT
Preparing for EHR implementation with the AHRQ Health IT Toolkit for Workflow Assessment
Healthcare Cloud definitions should be based on NIST’s definitions
To make physicians more productive, focus on IT and tools for their supporting staff first
Video of my debate with Connected Health’s Dr. Kvedar on quality improvement using patient self-management techniques
Join me for my EHR usability webinar on November 30 at 1:00p
Guest Article: Policy management software for hospitals and clinics helps with change management
Guest Article: Actionable advice on how to make tangible progress in ICD-9 to ICD-10 migration
How to manage HIPAA security in a way that actually enhances security and not just fills in documentation
Health Wonk Review up at Health Business Blog
Regulatory compliance officers need not fear open source software in medical devices or mission-critical healthcare IT systems
The realities of getting a job in healthcare IT
Using open source software in safety-critical medical devices
Denmark has lots of healthcare IT competence and a potentially formidable talent pool
$50k available for your health IT startup ideas
Join me in Boston on Sept 8th and 9th to learn about how to build health IT and med device gateways
How to get a job in healthcare IT when you don’t have specific experience
FDA’s new draft guidance on mobile apps and what it means to health IT vendors
How to teach Microsoft applications that “HER” is not the proper replacement for “EHR”
Life Sciences venture investing dramatically outperformed Tech venture investing over the past decade
Why medical device data is the best way to fill meaningful use EHRs and conduct comparative effectiveness research (CER)
Now that Google Health is dead, what did we learn about PHRs? That engagement and messaging is what matters.
Guest Article: How to sell your EHR and other health IT products into clinics and physician practices
Report from NIST EHR Usability Forum: 5 Things EHR Vendors Should Do Right Now to Prepare for Meaningful Use Usability Criteria
Guest Article: Smartphones aren’t the only patient communications devices, text messaging works better sometimes
Transparent heath data and APIs are real, where were the med device vendors?
Health Wonk Review posted at The Health Care Blog
Guest Article: How to sell your health IT products into hospitals
Harvard Business Review talks about Misys Open Source Solutions
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Guest Article: So You Want to be an ACO? Focus on the Critical Technical Tasks and IT Tools
Join me at WWHI’s “Discussion with the FDA” on April 28th at second Health Care Innovation Day (HCI-DC)
Join me for my Public Sector State and Local Executives’ HIE webinar Wednesday, April 13
Look beyond traditional health IT tools for Accountable Care Organization (ACO) implementations
This week’s edition of Health Wonk Review is at the Healthcare Economist
Join me for a free webinar on “Understanding the Escalating Data Challenges of Meaningful Use” on Thursday, April 7th
WSJ: Google Health might get less support under new CEO
Speakers needed for Business Intelligence & Analytics for Healthcare Conference & Exhibition (July 11-12 in San Diego)
Guest Article: Safe usage of social networking is a good prescription for patients
Waiting until 2012 on attestation for Meaningful Use doesn’t mean you shouldn’t buy an EHR in 2011
You will be better off waiting until FY 2012 on Meaningful Use
SMART: A Facebook-like platform for medical apps
HIPAA and HITECH security starts with secure operating systems, proxies, and databases (Sudo 1.8)
What human capital does it take to develop healthcare IT and EHR apps?
If you’re serious about health IT or Med Tech implementations, consider attending IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
Is speech enabling your clinical app or EHR in a day really possible?
What can cause medical device and health IT projects go from “best case” to “worst case”
Consider MySQL ‘Archive’ storage engine to store large amounts of med device structured or waveform data
How to leverage Web 2.0 through content management systems for hospitals and practice websites
How to develop lightweight ancillary tools connected to electronic health records systems
The Case for Regulating EMRs and the New FDA MDDS Rules
It’s HL7: What Can Go Wrong?
HL7 Interface Documentation: 6 Questions Hospital CIOs and IT Directors Should Be Asking Vendors
What kind of business model does your bright health IT idea have?
Fred Trotter’s Patient Centered Health Internet Makes Sense
My eWeek interview about top 5 health IT trends in 2011
Come see me at a speaking tour on EHR implementation and other health system IT priorities in Chicago, Newark, and Santa Ana
How to identify spreadsheets and databases with protected health information (PII and PHI)
Social Networking Guidelines for Physicians, Office Staff and Patients
The Keys To Building Health Care IT Companies
Guest Article: How to decide which hospital systems to prioritize when planning for disaster recovery
Join West Wireless and yours truly in DC on Tuesday to learn more about VA’s $100 million Innovation Initiative (VAi2) program
Give your opinion on whether you think RECs will deliver on their mission
Guest Article: How desktop virtualization helps healthcare IT initiatives
Boosting the productivity of clinical workers
How To Pick IT Consultants for Various Technical Tasks
Guest Article: Top 10 tips for successfully using speech recognition in EHRs and healthcare apps
Meeting practical business and security challenges of healthcare apps in the cloud
McKinsey estimates that MU incentives may pay for less than 20% of hospital EHR roll out costs
Guest Article: What the low-tech checklist can teach techies about medical business processes and proper system design
NIST says Meaningful Use Test Procedures have been approved by ONC
Guest Article: Lessons from the trenches – transitioning to EMR without risking data loss
An overview of NHIN, NHIN CONNECT, and NHIN Direct
My view on HIT (or other technical) certifications
NIST releases revised draft test procedures to adjust to the final Meaningful Use rules
NIST planning to update draft test procedures tied to final MU rules on July 22
Final MU rules are out but don’t forget, you’ve still got all of 2011 and 2012 to get paid
Join me for a free webinar on “How Meaningful Use Impacts Healthcare Data Management Professionals” on Wednesday, July 14th
Medical Fusion Conference for physicians looking for a career change moves to Vegas in November
Unintended consequences of clinical automation and EMRs
Finally, a government-run website you can trust for HHS/CMS EHR Icentives Program answers
Guest Article: Be sure you have proactive networking monitoring in place before you install clinical software
Guest Article: We should be implementing digital signatures even before jumping into EMRs
Guest Article: Is your network optimized for EMRs and large document traffic?
Start the certification engines, ONC says bodies will be ready to certify by “the end of summer”
Why MDs Dread EMRs
Is CCHIT dead?
Free advice for selecting EMRs and other medical software
NHIN Direct & CONNECT 3.0 Update at Government Health IT Conference & Expo in Washington D.C
Where Have We Come in a Year? Social Media and Its Impact on the Healthcare Industry
What VA’s winners of health IT innovation competition says about the industry and MU
How to commercialize your healthcare IT and media products
Will RECs accidentally wreck innovation in the EMR market on their way to helping small practices?
Guest Article: Healthcare IT Lessons Learned at a Growing Practice
Additional NIST Certification Draft Test Procedures updates
NIST hosting a summer workshop on usability in health IT
Harvard Business Review wonders whether the U.S. health technology sector has run out of gas
NIST Draft Test Procedures added and updated
OSCON, the most important Open Source conference, adds a healthcare track in 2010
On April 7 CCHIT will offer Preliminary ARRA Certfication with free bridge to Final
Several more NIST draft test procedures updated for EMR certifications
Webinar on Certification Programs for HIT NPRM March 25, 2010 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. EDT
NIST updates draft test procedures page for medication reconciliation
26 ways to grow your healthcare IT business
HITECH incentives payment & meaningful use training from Medicare (CMS) itself
Medical Fusion Conference for physicians looking for a career change
CCHIT halts interim Meaningful Use Certification pending publication of NIST test scripts
How to Select the Right EMR, a must-get eBook
Understanding the 12 major application clusters in mobile health (mHealth)
If you sell health IT products, be sure you know about Regional Extension Centers
Innovation in healthcare IT is dead (hopefully only temporarily)
The lessons our EMR industry can learn from past failures in the CRM industry
More HIMSS tips for HIT vendors looking to make their case
Thank goodness, the FDA could start regulating healthcare IT systems
Tips for HIT vendors speaking to analysts at HIMSS
Physician Office Usage of Electronic Healthcare Records Software
Guest Article: Human Centering in Healthcare IT
Meet the bloggers (and other New Media personalities) at HIMSS
Report: How to get your hands on $900 Million in Federal Health IT and $70 Billion in Health Tech
Event: Find out how to tap the billions of dollars being spent by the government on healthcare technology
$99 Wii Balance Board Outperforms $17,885 Medical Device
Let there be light: HHS publishes interim final rules on Initial Set of Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria for EMRs
Beware EMR bullies quoting federal stimulus rules
Social networking 101 for physicians
Markle gives sound advice on “Meaningful Use of Health IT” to policy makers (again)
Guest Article: Tips to help prepare for EMRs, even before you choose your software
Study of 3,000 hospitals shows little benefit from EMRs – similar to CRMs and SFA?
Don’t drink the Kool-Aid: Tips for easing into medical technology if you’re afraid of EMRs
Guest Article: Open Source EMRs for free clinics
Breaking into the Healthcare IT job market
And then there were 2: Drummond Group Plans to Certify Electronic Health Records
Health Wonk Review: Killer viruses and the undead public option
DeepDyve: Like iTunes for Scientific and Medical Papers & Research
GE wants to fund your healthcare technology idea
Is EMR Adoption on the Rise? Or is the market frozen until next year?
101 Ways to Use Twitter in Your Hospital
The Looming Problem in Healthcare EDI: ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010 migration
How RxNorm fits into clinical interoperability
10 Words I, too, Would Love To See Banned From Press Releases
Guest Article: Why Doctors Hate Electronic Medical Records
Reminder: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in healthcare unconference in Houston next week
Conducting market research for your healthcare IT app
Ingenious use of tech: Training Med Students in Second Life (virtual) Hospitals
Guest Article: Selecting or Designing iPhone and Mobile Software for Physicians
Guest Article: Status of CCHIT and certification for ARRA
Federal standards body is looking for some health IT usability experts
Guest Article: Can Twitter help stop or slow down human virsuses?
Top 50 Blogs to Help You Further Your Healthcare Career
Join me and others from CDC, FDA, HHS, & NIH to discuss HealthIT Adoption via Social Media
A Tour of the Healthcare New Media Marketing Landscape
Guest Article: Why Games Matter in Healthcare
How Social Media Can Improve Communication & Collaboration During A Public Health Crisis
Guest Article: How medical students can get into Health IT
Amazon offers free cloud computing services to educators and students
Health Wonk Review at Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review
SOA in Healthcare Conference June 2-4 in Chicago
Moving to two-factor authentication in healthcare apps
Public Health & Technology Conference at Harvard next week
Markle Foundation presenting “Getting Health IT Right Under the ARRA” at Newseum in DC on Thursday
NCVHS Executive Subcommittee Hearing Defining “Meaningful Use” to be held April 28th and 29th in DC
Are medication alerts useless since most clinicians override them anyway?
Physicians are not technology averse
ManageMyPractice.com: Technology, Information & Resources for the Medical Practice Manager
HIMSS Discussion Drafts on Meaningful Use Open until April 17
Guest Article: What will make healthcare software usable?
Guest Article: Leveraging Technology to Drive Patient Centered Medical Home Initiatives
What consumers think about online health resources, PHRs, EHRs, and other important topics
Video of NIH Lecture on Advances in Clinical Interfaces Available
CCHIT set to meet with healthcare open source advocates
Health Wonk Review up at Healthblawg
Connecting to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN)
Guest Article: Clinical Interoperability – The Antics of Semantics
Guest Article: The Hottest Jobs in Healthcare IT
Client/Server vs. ASP/Web-Based in Healthcare IT
EHR certification work begins: Nominations requested for Health IT Federal Advisory Boards (FACAs)
Guest Article: How to do real clinical interoperability right now
Guest Article: Why does clinical interoperability matter?
Guest Article: Getting beyond the hype and hyperbole – what is clinical interoperability?
A great visual for healthcare IT interoperability
HIPAA violations are finally starting to be punished
Guest Article: The challenge of interoperability across local and hosted solutions
Evidence over Eminence in Medicine and Healthcare
CouchDB could be a viable alternative to relational databases for storing patient data
Usability Guidance for EHRs and Personal Health Records
Explaining Healthcare IT application UI complexity
Health Wonk Review at Health Business Blog
Guest Article: Google Health and HealthVault App Integration from the trenches
Free and Open Source Healthcare IT unconference in Houston this summer
Zotero can help with medical research and daily healthcare Information Management work
Astronauts have checklists, why not surgeons?
Nice new web-based physician Marketing and Social Networking site
Free e-Prescribing with NEPSI and Integration Challenges
Clinical trials Patient Recruitment done right with Web 2.0 and Social Networking
Save some brain cells, use MedCalc on your Mobile Device (iPhone, Palm, Windows)
Healthcare IT spending is not dead in Hospitals (yet)
iPhone and iPod Touch Medical Applications
AMIA report on Open Source Implementations of Healthcare Software
Guest Article: A Tech-savvy Physician’s View of Patient Social Networks
Consumerism and Healthcare IT Innovations Summit at Ohio State University on Nov 17
Digitizing natural handwriting from any surface – useful for clinicians?
Dinosaur MD says “Make Mine Paper” and “no thanks” to EMR vendors
Does putting an EMR into a primary care practice make life hell for a year?
Top 50 Health 2.0 Blogs
There is no such thing as a comprehensive health record
Eldercare social network and community site is good
Texting for Insurance Deductibles and Copays
Medicine 2.0 in Toronto
How To Demo Your Startup
Surviving the Shakeout in Consumer Health Sites
XTS’s Citrix reporting tools Assist with HIPAA Compliance
Phreesia is now an even better example of consumer driven healthcare technology done right
MyFamilyHealth is a great Web 2.0 health site
Guest Humor: Parody of Healthcare IT Vendors
MedPedia medical Wiki lauching at the end of the year
The New England Journal of Medicine reports on EMR adoption by Physicians
Productivity strategies for Doctors
Why Google Health and HealthVault are not covered by HIPAA
Why Doctors Are Heading for Texas
HealthCampMD in June
High-impact and High-value Medical Innovation
The Top 100 Open Source Software Tools for Medical Professionals
Guest Article: Practical Identity Management for Healthcare
Non-profit foundation “Doctors in Peril” helps physicians wronged by IT, EMR, medical device, and other vendors
The state of healthcare IT in the Middle East
Dr. Ankush’s Essential knowledge for entering the healthcare field
Insurer finds EMRs won’t pay off for its doctors
Guest Article: IT Security and Record Management in Healthcare
WhoIsSick.org collaboratively collects symptoms and locations
TrustRex for online, free doctor + patient communications
Guest Article: Dr. Olson asks if we’re looking at healthcare IT to solve the right clinical problems
Interesting video on paperless healthcare
100 Search Engines and Tools for Medical Self-Diagnosis
What Doctors Think — useful Physician surveys
CCHIT info and Free Software Advice for Medical/Health industry
HITCHtv Beta – health IT TV land
HL7 Primer for non-techies
HealthRanker social media health site beta launched
Neat little wallet-sized “Smart PHR” card
Locking down browsers in healthcare settings to prevent staff misuse
LinuxMedNews interviews new Medsphere CEO Michael Doyle
Guest Article: Rich Internet Applications for Improved Healthcare App User Experience
Request for Introduction to Healthcare Technology/IT Resources
Guest Article: What Jenny McCarthy can teach us about behavior change and data
Microsoft releases new PHR
Personalized drug safety alerts
Professional Social Bookmarking can provide real value
Hospital Rankings Visualized
Demonstrating Open-Source Healthcare Solutions (DOHCS)
Management 2.0
Make sure your online SaaS vendors are appliance-capable
Key Health IT opportunity: Medicare Says It Won’t Cover Hospital Errors
Microsoft Health Common User Interface (CUI) Guidance and Controls
Health IT Blogs Visualized
E-mail good for patients, not so much for docs
If you can’t repeat it, don’t bother automating it
Guest Article: Safeguarding critical patient information
Research questioning EMRs effectiveness mounts
HIPAA audit: The 42 questions HHS might ask
Top healthcare and medicine blogs
What’s driving the ‘Driven’ approaches in software development?
Google planning a PHR?
Telemedicine in a box
Disaster time prescription records
Online Social Networking for Physicians
Center for American Progress’ Health IT Report
What if medical care came with a 90-day warranty?
Disruptive Innovations in Health and Health Care Competition – Solutions People Want
Consumers and Health Information Technology: A Top 10 List
Free tool to help identify iPods, USB sticks on the network
EHRs Fix Everything – and Nine Other Myths
WorldVistA EHR CCHIT Certified
Change management and versioning of services
IT implications of Wal-Mart’s 400 new in-store clinics
Microsoft’s Internet Service Bus
Privacy preserving data mining
How I’d Hack Your Weak Passwords
How to do positive patient ID in consumer and kiosk settings
HL7 library for Ruby Released
A free Ad-based EMR
Helping Health IT firms commercialize their offerings
Open Source data mapping and transformation tool from NIH
How much do you know about healthcare in America?
Excellent tips, tricks, and advice for those going to the HIMSS Conference
Tolven Healthcare Innovations has ready to run open source healthcare apps
HIMSS Blogger Meetup Date, Time, and Location Established
Health Wonk Review #25
Daylight Savings Time change this year may cause healthcare transaction hiccups
2nd Annual HIMSS Blogger Meetup taking shape
My thoughts on AHIMA’s new Healthcare Privacy, Security certification
Recap of 3rd Nationwide Health Information Network Forum
NIH Lecture: Computation with Information Described in Natural Language (Feb 8)
Jasypt: Java encryption library that eases encryption of database fields too
Improving Patient Communication often leads to improved healthcare
Adding full-text searching to Relational Databases
Resume Driven Development (RDD)
Developing your own master person index using open source tools
Platform for building healthcare fraud detection applications
Single sign on (SSO) solutions in healthcare
Try Acrobat Connect for Healthcare Collaboration
Healthcare Blogger and Reader Meet-up at HIMSS in New Orleans
Open Source EMR and Practice Management Software Appliance
Is your Health IT Network NSA-secure?
Medgadget Medical Blog Award Poll is open
Open Source Health Care Summit
Are you protecting Patient healthcare data on discarded equipment?
The 2006 Medical Weblog Awards
Guest Article: Who owns my healthcare data?
IT in the House
Barriers to optimal use of Online Healthcare Apps
Recent postings at HIMSS Live! Blog
Guest Article: Comparison shopping for healthcare
Open source software for clinical research
Do micro-job sites offer better jobs?
Disaster and Emergency Response Systems
AMIA’s Report on the Secondary use of Healthcare Data
HIMSS07 Conference Blog Launched
Minimizing impacts of change
Open source personal health records (PHRs) and EMRs
Neotool adds a valuable voice to the HIT Blogosphere
HHS is looking for input on “Personalized Healthcare”
Who owns your data?
Technical leadership advice
Advice to NIH Commercialization Assistance Program (CAP) participants
Guest article: 10 ways Social Computing is transforming the Healthcare Industry
Isn’t it time for the Business Guys to get IT?
The Role of the Web in Hospital Marketing
Podslurping: An easy technique to steal Healthcare Data
Review of SEIPS Course on HFE and Patient Safety
Why Users Don’t Upgrade
Consumer and practitioner-friendly Healthcare Search Engine upgraded
The Computer Language Shootout Benchmarks
Analytics tools are bit more expensive than you think
Guest Article: Is e-Health An illusion?
Getting small databases like Access and Excel under control
The Benefits of Working With Tech Startups
NIST Releases Recommendations for Securing Web Services
How to reduce database management costs
RFID is good for many things but increasing security is not one of them
Web-based QA
$10 Million available to Patient Monitoring Engineering Team
Beware of vendors bearing SOA gifts
Please use the new rating system on my blog to tell me how you like articles
Interesting Hopkins Study on Tracking Medication Error Reports
Collaboration tools can transform healthcare IT but be careful
Healthcare app and devices design
Event: Profiling the Agile Architect
It’s harder to get out than get in
Guest article: Information Therapy
Where can we get gigs of easily accessible storage for RIS and healthcare images?
Try Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) for cross-org messaging, RHIO, NHIN data
Let’s take off our ties and attend “Games for Health”
Open source complex healthcare event/stream processing
Another healthcare-specific search engine
SmartDraw, another tool for healthcare diagrams
I’ll be speaking at the Healthcare Blogging Summit 2006 in DC
Taking The Pulse Of The Healthcare Blogosphere
Patient-centric devices in hospital rooms
Electronic Medical Record Use by Office-based Physicians
Mirth Java-based open source HL7 Framework
Healthcare IT Startup Advice
Axure Prototyping Software
CCHIT Town Call
HIT Vendors should create virtual appliances for their software
Dabble DB for quick but not dirty healthcare apps and databases
HITSphere now tracking over 30 Health IT blogs
Short Course on Human Factors Engineering and Patient Safety
Using the Federal Transition Framework (FTF) to design your own governance documents
HIMMS interested in bloggers, blogging, and social networking
Panel Recommends Initial Standards to Support Nationwide Health Information Network
stpBA Storyboarding
My Clinical IT Outsourcing India trip: Days 3 & 4
My Clinical IT Outsourcing India trip: Day 2
My Clinical IT Outsourcing India trip: Day 1
Science in the year 2020
Guest Article: The Healthcare IT Gap
Technology Support for Evidence-based Medicine
Games for Health Day on May 9, 2006 in Los Angeles, California
Biomedical Ontology in Action
New York’s MIT Enterprise Forum hosting “Connected Healthcare” on May 4th
Cooperative Open-source Medical Banking Architecture & Technology Reference Architecture
The downside of health IT: seeing fewer patients
Health IT systems and medical devices should learn about CAP
Ken Kizer, CEO of Medsphere and former top VA official, pitches open source medical software to Congress
Healthcare Blogs: The Authoritative Guide
The Connecting for Health Common Framework
Guest Article: Beware of NULLs in healthcare databases
XML data models are viable alternatives to relational data models in healthcare systems
Healthcare Services Specification Project
Introduction to Dynamic Data Models in Healthcare
Very nice auto-recognition and auto-login system for healthcare workstations
Interested in doing some freelance writing for a Health IT publication?
Conference on Intellectual Property in the Global Marketplace
Medical Blog Network vs. Lynch Mob
EHRs in the Exam Room: Tips on Patient-Centered Care
Whitepaper on Open Source in Healthcare
Wikipedia vs. Encyclopedia Britannica: The Kid’s All Right (And So’s the Old Man)
Should we develop a healthcare domain-specific language (DSL)?
Handheld Computers in Medicine workshop on 6th April in London
Health Wonk Review up over at THCB
Electronic Health Rrecords Vendors Association (EHRVA) Interoperability Roadmap V2.0
79% of U.S. Internet uses have researched health information online
Check out GotoMeeting and GoToMyPC for remote access to medical and clinical workstations
A reader’s elaboration of my “better engineers” argument
JScience Java library for scientific computations
Start using RSS for health/medical alerts and data sharing
Software vendors should start providing virtual machine images to help demo their wares
HIPAA certification business for software vendors a good idea?
Health Wonk Review: A healthcare policy, technology, and business blogs carnival
Securing Your Desktops from Pod Slurping
Why vendors don’t implement CCOW in legacy systems
Best language for secure healthcare applications
Beware the ‘pod slurping’ employee
HIMSS 2006: Harmonization and interoperability getting more than lip service
J2EE Architecture of Brazilian Healthcare IT System
First annual HIMMS Blogger/Reader meetup was a smashing success
Grand Rounds is up
caBIG Healthcare Enterprise Security Architecture White Paper
Pharma: Have No Fear Of The Blogosphere
Thoughts on the Future of Medical Devices at the Point of Care
HIMSS exec denies conflict in role on RMD board
Medical data theft through Podslurping
Health IT vendors should learn from Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, and MySQL
2006 Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition Call for Participation
De-identifiying protected health information (PHI)
EJK’s no-contact thermometer
How to manage tape backups in health IT shops
Math Will Rock Your World
Light HL7 Library for Java
How we carry $10,000 cash versus patient data backup tapes worth much, much more
Health-IT vendors must consider Open Source
HIMSS’06 Blogger and Reader Meetup Registration
Great use of health IT: inmates to visit doctors electronically
Search Engines, Blogs Lead Top E-Health Trends for 2006
Blogging Your Way Up the Career Ladder
HITSphere now tracking over 20 HIT blogs
If your engineers and DBAs can see medical data, it’s neither private nor secure
Polls closing in 2 days for 2005 Medical Weblog Awards
The Cost of Exhibiting at HIMSS
QuadraMed should go open source
JAMIA reports it will be 2024 by the time EHR adoption will reach its full potential
IEEE Endorses “Proper” Use of Technology in Improving Health Care for Seniors
Healthcare career advice and job hunting tips
Guest Article: Standardizing Computer Interfacing to Medical Devices
Healthcare blogger and reader meet-up at HIMSS in San Diego
Correctness by Construction: A Manifesto for High-Integrity Software
Semantic Interoperability of Medical Information Systems
Guest Article: The benefits of interfacing computers to medical devices
20 Messaging and Vocabulary Standards for Government Health IT
New vending machine dispenses generic prescription drugs
Nurses check on patients via Internet
Computers with patients’ information stolen from office
Polls Are Open for 2005 Medical Weblog Awards
Oracle aims to lock in low-end users
Another open source EMR list
No RedHat equivalents in health IT…yet
Windows Media Center for eHealth
Open-source and non-proprietary health IT software (podcast)
How To Write Unmaintainable Code
Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) Healthcare Community
Federal Chief Architects Forum establishes Health Information Technology Ontology Project (HITOP) Work Group
Unstructured Information Management Architecture SDK for Healthcare IT applications
Inside the Venture Capital process
Software Demonstrations are like watching TV (no, that’s not a good thing)
File Compression for Remote Diagnosis
Corporate blogging in Healthcare sector
Now we’re talkin’! Bill would hike tax deductions for health IT
Repeat after me: healthcare data models matter
Web Portal Tracks Health IT Interoperability Projects
Consumer generated content creates new brand management challenges for life science companies
Access control in medical/clinical IT systems
Physician IT Skepticism: Over at Last? Humbug!
Could ADT’s Remote Monitoring Products become A Platform?
Hospital to txt message its patients
HITSphere Health IT User Community site is live!
UPI reports IT-related deaths highlight tech needs
Errors at the speed of light
Windows Mobile: Development platform for health enabled Smartphones
CPOE studies generate buzz
Alexa (Amazon) opens up API, lets use it for Health IT
Can doctors ever learn to love the EMR?
Hospital CEOs and Boards on IT
Will NHIN cause EMRs and health IT systems to become another government entitlement program?
Impact of Cerner’s CPOE study about increased mortality will likely be more regulation
Pitfalls of HL7 3.0 implementations
Healthcare IT Discussion Forums
Are you a healthcare firm’s CIO, CTO, director of IT, or other high-level IT executive?
Tracking HIPAA complaints continued
IEEE, AMA, and 8 other associations join forces to work on standards to accelerate HIT adoption
Medical Usability: How to Kill Patients Through Bad Design
What’s wrong with health care IT
Phreesia is a great example of consumer driven healthcare technology done right
Tracking of HIPAA complaints filed
Splunk for Healthcare is making more sense
Increased mortality reported after CPOE implementation
Is there a Healthcare IT bubble?
We need a Central Bank and credit reporting bureau equivalent for healthcare
Could everybody’s ADT system use the same database schema?
Technology for privacy of medical consultations
Will puts a smackdown on CPOE
Health and Medical Resources Directory
One table to contain all lookup data is not a good idea
A reader asks about how to evaluate EMRs & EHRs vendors
Notes from the HIMMS “Enabling e-Health for RHIOs” Webinar
M&A in the Healthcare IT world reviewed
CNN reports huge growth for tech in health sector
Thanks for the nominations, everyone
Technology for networked medical devices
Tax refunds and credits for R&D investments
Cerner vs Epic from a customer’s point of view
Open source online health record management
Microsoft’s eating their own dogfood again: this time for a health technology cause
A Healthy IT Outlook
Consumer oriented healthcare using kiosks, portals, and bedside devices
The 2005 Medical Weblog Awards
The Disaster-time Health Record (DHR)
Wireless home-monitoring network for recuperating hospital patients
iHealthRecord makes a good case for PHR
RxWise tries to reduce medication errors
How about a Splunk for healthcare data?
CHCS II is dead; long live AHLTA!
Indoor Positioning for Healthcare from Radianse
Using dictation, podcasts, and Transcribr podcast transcriptions for clincal records
Use RSS and SSE for healthcare data synchronization in masterless environments?
Real-World RHIO
How to dip your feet into offshore custom development of medical/clinical software
Visual depiction of how far we’ve come with medical/clinical records management
ConceptDraw software for medical diagrams, healthcare plans
Open source tool for connecting disparate legacy medical/clinical databases
How to ensure IT project failure
How to stop reinventing role based access control (RBAC) in medical/clinical apps
My Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) presentation from last night
Another Healthcare IT blog you might like
68% of CEOs report purchasing of hospital IT systems as major capital need over the next 5 years
Get ready for HL7 CDA-based attachments to ASC X12 claims
Give Ruby on Rails a shot for medical/clinical web applications
Dead Healthcare Workers Do Not Provide Good Patient Care
Our badge of honor: U.S. leads way in medical errors, costs
GE Healthcare Unveils Algorithms That May Help Physicians Predict Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death in Patients
Leveraging technology to make doctors more productive
Taking patient-centric architecture to the next level
Sun Offers Item-Level RFID for Pharmaceuticals
Docs buying medical record systems in bulk
10 make or break steps to CPOE
We’re in the era of e-Health 2.0
Consumer-driven healthcare provides new opportunities for legacy HCIT vendors
What on earth does Southwest Airlines have to do with healthcare?
Use of Waterfall, Agile, XP, Scrum software development methodologies in healthcare apps
Understanding healthcare technology and clinical systems challenges
Healthcare IT Yellow Pages and White Papers catalog
Does the USA nursing shortage provide any technology opportunities?
Secrets of an HCIT vendor sales guy
Nine Healthcare IT Tech Trends
HL7 Version 3 and semantically interoperable healthcare information
NIST HIPAA Resource Guide
Hospital Impact Weekly News
Interesting privacy/confidentiality problems in Healthcare IT
Use of Bayesian Networks to Classify Complex Pathologies
Oops! Patient data accidentally leaks through file sharing app
Consolidating and serving live data from medical devices
Two of history’s worst software bugs reported to be in medical software
It’s a good time to be in healthcare IT
Buyer beware: encryption does not mean application security
Open Healthcare Framework
Disease-specific blogs may be good for patients, providers
Attitudes of Americans Regarding Personal Health Records
Should we care about EMRs?
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