Healthcare

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Physicians are not technology averse

As a thought leader in the healthcare IT space I get a lot of emails that blame physicians for not changing their behavior and not more more easily accepting information technology. The IT solutions folks and vendors often complain “if only physicians would just accept our system the hospital would benefit, the government would get data, insurance claims would be processed faster, etc.” Because physicians don’t jump to change their behavior and adopt IT immediately they are pegged as being technology averse.

Given all the attention being given to healthcare IT these days (especially because of the stimulus bill), many of my readers were wondering how to get into the market (jobs, contracts, etc). I asked Sarah Scrafford, who regularly writes on the topic of pharmacy technician online programs, to tell us what she’s seeing these days. Here’s what she had to say about the healthcare IT job market. There’s an inherent satisfaction in working in the healthcare field – you feel fulfilled because you’re helping people get better and get over ailments that get them down.

Last week I asked Charlie Harp to explain what clinical interoperability is – in plain english. Charlie is the CEO and founder of Clinical Architecture and has spent the last twenty years designing and developing software solutions in the healthcare industry. Here’s what he had to say in his second part of a series I’ll be doing on interoperability. Now that we have a documented definition for clinical interoperability and its macro components, the next reasonable question is: “Why is clinical interoperability important?

Bart Collet posted a comment to Dr. Rowley’s recent guest article on interoperability – he said the following diagram is a great way to show how inflexible many healthcare IT systems are these days: I love the picture, thanks Bart. Too many of our healthcare IT systems look like the device on the bottom – to make matters worse, many vendors don’t even have the three button Bart has in his photo.

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