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• 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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