Go beyond'puppies and rainbows' whether interviewing for a position, or hiring
“You need to go beyond puppies and rainbows.” That’s the advice this week from a search firm expert. I’m part of the search committee for the new president of a non-profit organization where I am a board member. The search expert was telling us to go deeper in our questioning. Get past the fluff and canned responses. He said it’s ok to make candidates uncomfortable. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Workforce Development, Leadership Source Type: blogs
Taking Lean to the screen: Removing waste from the electronic health record
Many physicians and nurses are traveling across desolate EHR wastelands replete with digital detritus, pixel dust and other non-value-add items. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Analytics, Data Science, EHR, Core Technologies, Quality Care Source Type: blogs
Employers changing health care delivery – health reform at work
Large employers are taking more control over health care costs and quality by pressuring changes to how care is actually delivered, based on the results from the 2017 Health Plan Design Survey sponsored by the National Business Group on Health (NBGH). (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Coordinated care, Care, Quality Care, Core Technologies, Telehealth Source Type: blogs
Sue Schade on discipline and finding time
People often ask me how I find time to write a weekly blog with a big, busy CIO job. I tell them all the same thing – it’s a discipline. I try to start early in the week with an idea, draft it one night, come back to it the next night to finalize and then post it on Thursday or Friday morning. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Core Technologies, EHR, Workforce Development, Leadership Source Type: blogs
The first Walking Gallery member to fall: Regina Holliday on Jess Jacobs
On August 10, I was so excited to share that we had reached another milestone in the Walking Gallery. Five years into our patient rights movement we had reached 400 members! I even shared the post that lists where everyone lives. I loved the picture blogger chose for the post. It was me and Jess assembling the Walking Gallery in its lego form. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Achieving gender-based pay equity
Since HIMSS ’s July 27 2016 release of the longitudinal gender compensation study in which we reported on a widening pay gap between men and women health IT workers, I’ve published a blog on what these facts tell us, and an overview of (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Workforce Development, Leadership Source Type: blogs
Why I stand for pay equity in health IT
There are many pointed reasons why pay equity matters to Adam Bazer, a senior manager of health information systems at HIMSS. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Workforce Development, Leadership Source Type: blogs
HIMSS August update on Women in Health IT
Listen to HIMSS Executive Vice President Carla Smith talk about what led to the launch of HIMSS and Healthcare IT News initiative for Women in Health IT. Smith also talks about plans going forward for this newly minted community. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
What UPS knows about retail shopping applies to health
Some 18 percent of U.S. consumers use a wearable device, according to the 2016 UPS Pulse of the Online Shopper survey. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Analytics, Clinial and business intelligence, Core Technologies, Telehealth Source Type: blogs
Telemedicine: What the future holds
Penn Medicine associate CIO John Donohue shares insights and obstacles from the academic medical centers work on telehealth thus far. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Interoperability, Core Technologies, Telehealth Source Type: blogs
CIO Sue Schade on the value of hiring an executive coach
I was fortunate to work with an excellent executive coach several years ago. He helped me gain new insight into who I am and how I lead. I am a much better leader as a result of our year-long work together. And I periodically reconnect with him now to bounce around ideas when going through major transitions.
Deciding to work with a coach can be unsettling. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Core Technologies, EHR, Workforce Development, Leadership Source Type: blogs
Going for the gold: Women in Health IT get their shine on
" You want the strongest, happiest, smartest people in your corner, " according to Dana Alexander, former board chair, HIMSS North America. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Workforce Development, Leadership Source Type: blogs
A four-point plan for tackling inequity in health IT
The findings of the HIMSS Longitudinal Gender Compensation Assessment report take direct aim at the claim that, in health IT, " You ' ve come a long way. " In truth, we need to take a systems view of how we ' ve gotten to where we are today, and how to mitigate increasing inequities in compensation and recognition for women. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Leadership, Workforce Development Source Type: blogs
Clarifying certification requirements for hospitals
" As I ' ve said many times, one of the great challenges we have is that the 2015 Edition final rule has an enormous scope extending beyond meaningful use with the notion that it can be coupled to every government healthcare IT program, " writes John Halamka, MD. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Public Policy, Regulation, Core Technologies, EHR, Interoperability Source Type: blogs
SPONSORED: Have we reached the tipping point for connected care?
Achieving interoperability across boundaries and connecting providers for collaboration is a long process. Here are a few examples of customers where our interoperability technology is improving care and outcomes. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Interoperability, Core Technologies Source Type: blogs
