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The Roles I Play
As 2014 begins, I marvel at the evolution of the CIO role from 1997 to 2014. Gone are the days when my role was to serve as technical expert, configuring web servers, optimizing data bases, or simplifying code. [...] Here are a few examples of the roles I play today from the past few weeks: Read More »
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The Sabotage Device Within Obamacare
Much of the March/April issue of the Washington Monthly is about conservative efforts to sabotage key first-term accomplishment of the Obama administration via the regulatory and other implementation processes. Read More »
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The SCOTUS Healthcare Reform Decision
The SCOTUS decision to uphold the healthcare reform law ensures that these foundational components will still have urgency, since every provider organization will be motivated to implement them in order thrive in the healthcare marketplace of the future. Read More »
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The Second Global Innovation Roundtable Sets The Agenda For Global Cooperation In Innovation [India]
The National Innovation Council (NInC), chaired by Mr Sam Pitroda, Adviser to the Prime Minister, hosted the second Global Innovation Roundtable (GIR) on 1st and 2nd November 2012 in New Delhi, India. Read More »
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The Social Return on Data
You don’t normally find serial entrepreneurs working for the U.S. government. But Todd Park, who co-founded three companies by the time he was 36, believes he can help make Americans healthier. Read More »
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The State Of Artificial Intelligence
In recent years, the U.S. military has increased its focus on artificial intelligence to enhance war-fighting capabilities, shore up mission critical programs and even support mental health work. Today, FedScoop brings you a closer look at just a few of these fascinating AI programs and what they bring to the federal government table. Read More »
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The State Of HIE As 2012 Comes To A Close
Although medical professionals may have been using the phrase "health information exchange" for centuries, the health information sharing organizational arrangement used today was first mentioned in the popular media by the Canadian Press in 1977, according to Google's archives, when Canadian health officials agreed to set up an inter-provincial HIE for studying coronary bypass surgeries and occupational health trends. Read More »
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The Surprisingly Small Percentage Health Orgs Spend on Data Security
Three percent or less. That’s how much of their overall IT budgets half the respondents to a HIMSS survey allocate to information security – and that’s up from last year. The fourth annual HIMSS Security Survey, in fact, found that 53 percent of respondents spend less than 3 percent, with a portion of those spending less than 1 percent. Read More »
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The Third Health Constant
At least two health phenomena are common to all humanity: the experience of health (or illness), and the continual need for health vigilance. In spite of these constants, healthcare has historically been “delivered” in a series of isolated events rather than integrated into daily life and shared between patients and doctors. Read More »
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The Top 7 Free And Open Source EMR Software Products
As a doctor you may not be able to completely avoid burdensome healthcare regulations or government EHR mandates, but you can at least minimize the cost of those mandates by implementing one of the many free Electronic Medical Records software options. Read More »
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The U.S. Medical Care Boondoggle Depends On Hookwinking The Physicians
The terms hoodwink and boondoggle are so appropriate. My comments here were inspired in large measure by Dr Michel Accad's Jan 2009 insightful blog entry from which I quote: Read More »
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The Unfulfilled Promises Of Health Information Technology
[...] Realizing that the cost savings and improvements in healthcare delivery are nowhere near what was optimistically predicted in 2005, RAND recently commissioned a new study to take a fresh new look at the state of health information technology. The new study paints a very different picture... Read More »
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The Upsides Of Betting On Early-Stage IT Startups
When Aetna chief information security officer Jim Routh became the first customer, literally, to buy email authentication software from a startup, that move was part of what he described as “a complete shift in thinking about purchasing products.”...
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The VA report: Failing Our Vets
It's utterly astounding to think that officials of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Pittsburgh had such total disregard for the health and welfare of veterans in its care. But it did. And not only must heads roll, criminal charges must be considered. Read More »
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The Walmartization Of Agriculture
Walmart has become an icon of the corporate rush to keep costs low and profits high, regardless of the effects on society. [...] It is this business strategy that catapulted them to be among the largest corporate interests in the world and allowed them to spread into virtually every corner of the United States. Read More »
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