Comprehensive coverage of WTN Media’s Digital Health Conference
As you may know from at least one of my earlier posts, I was in Madison, Wis., last month for a great little health IT event called the Digital Health Conference, a production of the Wisconsin Technology Network and the affiliated WTN Media. In fact, WTN Media hired me to cover the conference for them, so I did, pretty comprehensively. In fact, I wrote eight stories over the last couple of weeks, seven of which have been published:
“Process change just as important as analytics, says IBM physician”
“Health IT startups welcome at health systems, if they can show value”
“Health IT official coor...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - July 2, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: EMR/EHR health IT health reform Healthcare IT hospitals Innovation interoperability meaningful use ONC Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act patient safety physicians privacy public health quality RHIO standards vend Source Type: blogs
AHIMA board chair dies
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) announced this morning that board President and Chair Kathleen A. Frawley died Friday at the age of 63. The cause of death was not disclosed.
Here is the text of the AHIMA press release:
AHIMA Mourns Passing of Kathleen A. Frawley, AHIMA Board President/Chair
CHICAGO – July 1, 2013 – With profound sadness, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) announces the passing of Board President/Chair Kathleen A. Frawley, JD, MS, RHIA, FAHIMA on Friday, June 28. Frawley, 63, also was a professor and chair of the health information technolog...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - July 1, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: obituaries AHIMA Kathleen A. Frawley Lynne Thomas Gordon Source Type: blogs
Video: My interview with Hands On Telehealth
I recently was a guest on a vodcast with Nirav Desai, founder and CEO of telehealth consulting firm Hands On Telehealth, whom I met because I moderated a panel he was on at the American Telemedicine Association‘s annual conference in May. In a Skype interview that went up late Friday, we chatted for 45 minutes about telehealth, the broader health IT landscape and how it all fits into U.S. healthcare reform.
I’m unable to embed the video on this page, so please visit the Hands On Telehealth page to watch the interview. (That’s a screen grab below.) The page contains a detailed description of the intervie...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - July 1, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: care coordination EMR/EHR health IT health reform Healthcare IT medical errors Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act reimbursement remote monitoring Telehealth video American Telemedicine Association CIOs Hands On Telehealth Source Type: blogs
Apple highlights Skyscape, Health eVillages, other health apps
As you may know, I am on the advisory board of Health eVillages, The program got a huge honor Monday by being featured in a video shown at Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference — you know, the annual meeting that’s always a hot ticket among Mac-heads and app developers because Apple usually unveils its latest products there. (Last week was no exception. Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced iOS 7, albeit to mixed reviews.)
In the video, called, “Making a difference. One app at a time,” Apple highlighted Skyscape, the company that makes the mobile medical reference software that Health eVillages, and se...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - June 13, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Innovation international mobile Apple AssistiveWare Health eVillages Orthocare Innovations Physicians Interactive smartphone apps Source Type: blogs
It’s not exactly official, but don’t count on MU3 starting before 2017
MADISON, Wis.—As the headline says, don’t count on Stage 3 of Meaningful Use starting before 2017.
Speaking at WTN Media’s annual Digital Health Conference on Wednesday, ONC’s deputy national coordinator for programs and policy, Judy Murphy, R.N., recalled that national coordinator Farzad Mostashari, M.D., and CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner said at HIMSS13 in March that there would be no more activity on Stage 3 regulations this year. “The focus this year is on helping people understand the Stage 2 criteria,” Murphy said.
Then she discussed how long it takes to go through the regulatory ...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - June 12, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: ARRA CMS EMR/EHR health IT Healthcare IT meaningful use ONC regulations Digital Health Conference Farzad Mostashari HIMSS13 Judy Murphy Marilyn Tavenner Source Type: blogs
CEO, COO leaving is ‘exciting’ for MModal?
Did you catch the news this week about the shakeup in the executive suite of transcription and clinical documentation service provider MModal?
The Franklin, Tenn.-based company, formerly known as MedQuist, announced Tuesday that CEO Vern Davenport has “chosen to leave the company,” as has COO Amy Amick. In their place, MModal named Duncan W. James, formerly of QuadraMed, as the new CEO and promoted CFO Ron Scarboro to COO. Finance VP David Woodworth takes over as acting CFO. In addition, MModal brought in Graham O. King, ex-head of both Shared Medical Systems — now part of Siemens — and HBO & Co. —...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - June 7, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: EMR/EHR health IT Healthcare IT vendors Allscripts Amy Amick David Woodworth Duncan James Graham King McKesson Michael Raymer Misys MModal One Equity Partners Paul Edge Ron Scarboro Siemens Vern Davenport Source Type: blogs
Counting the health IT accelerators
Have you noticed all the digital health “accelerators” and “incubators” out there? I count the following, in alphabetical order:
Avia, Chicago, which is partnering with HIMSS
DreamIt Health, Philadelphia
Health Wildcatters, Dallas
Healthbox, with programs in Chicago, Boston, London and soon in Florida
HealthXL, Dublin and London
The Iron Yard, Greenville, S.C.
New York Digital Health Accelerator, New York
Nike+ Accelerator for exercise, fitness and sports, Beaverton, Ore.
PhiloMetron, San Diego
Rock Health, San Francisco and Boston
Sanotron, Vancouver, British Columbia
South By Southwest Interactiv...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - June 4, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: accelerators consumerism health 2.0 health IT Healthcare IT Innovation international SXSW Avia California HealthCare Foundation DreamIt Health fitness Health Wildcatters Healthbox HealthXL HIMSS Iron Yard New York Digital Source Type: blogs
About that Friedman editorial
Did you happen to catch Thomas Friedman’s commentary in Sunday’s New York Times entitled, “Obamacare’s Other Surprise”?
On first read, I gave it a big “Duh!” for the explanation that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (that’s how the law is officially known, Mr. Friedman) creates a “new industry” of innovation by encouraging the federal government to release of terabytes of health data — information already legally in the public domain — and then allowing the private sector to figure out how to structure, interpret and use the data. As you probably...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - May 28, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Accountable Care Organizations ARRA Barack Obama care coordination CMS comparative effectiveness consumerism education EMR/EHR health IT health reform Healthcare IT HHS Innovation meaningful use Patient Protection and Afforda Source Type: blogs
Ode to EMRs, in song format
Two North Carolina physicians have decided to have a little musical fun with their EHR-related frustrations. Pediatrician Ken Roberts , M.D., and hematologist-oncologist Jim Granfortuna, M.D., at Moses Cone Health System in Greensboro, N.C., have produced this little ditty entitled, “Ode to Electronic Medical Records, or Our Song of Epic Proportions.” Cone Health just happens to have an Epic Systems EHR.
Roberts and Granfortuna don’t seem like they’re anti-EHR, just anti-EHR that makes their work more difficult. From the song: “Now we ain’t saying the EHR is bad/When all the bugs are fi...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - May 21, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: EMR/EHR health IT Healthcare IT humor physicians video Epic Moses Cone Health System usability Source Type: blogs
Is this Cisco commercial reflective of the real world?
Cisco Systems is running this commercial about the “Internet of everything,” with a focus on connected healthcare.
It all sounds great, but how much of this is grounded in the real world today and how much is wishful thinking? I mean, connected medical records? It sounds so idealistic.
Related posts:
Some real progress
A real, hard number on ARRA funding for HIT
Health eVillages and mobile health in the developing world (Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog)
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - May 20, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: EMR/EHR health IT Healthcare IT hospitals imaging interoperability mobile remote monitoring video ambulance Cisco Systems emergency medicine wireless Source Type: blogs
Guest podcast: Suzanne Leveille from OpenNotes
I now present the latest health IT-related podcast from Sivad Business Solutions, an interview with Suzanne Leveille, research director of OpenNotes, a project to give patients online access to the entirety of their own medical records, including the visit notes from clinicians. Leveille describes a trial at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania and Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. She reported that not one of the 105 participating physicians asked for the access to be shut off after a year. In some cases, patients even discovered errors and prevented adverse events.
Here is th...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - May 17, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: consumerism EMR/EHR health IT Healthcare IT patient safety PHR physicians podcast Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center disease management Geisinger Health System Harborview Medical Center OpenNotes patient portals primary care Source Type: blogs
Health Wonk Review: money talks, but IT helps
The latest edition of Health Wonk Review is hot off the digital presses, with Joe Paduda taking hosting duties on his Managed Care Matters blog. And managed care does matter in this trip around the health blogosphere, with most of the attention on healthcare costs and insurance coverage.
On the quality front, which is my primary interest these days, there is some interesting discussion about whether the new Medicare hospital readmissions policy truly will produce better care or will prod some into providing the minimum level of service to readmitted patients.
(Frankly, hospitals have been overtreating for years. If a min...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - May 10, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: blogging consumerism EMR/EHR Finance health IT health reform Health Wonk Review Healthcare IT patient safety quality reimbursement Telehealth consumer health information healthcare costs home monitoring hospital readmissions Source Type: blogs
So many types of telehealth
Here’s a short video (720p HD) I put together from the just-concluded American Telemedicine Association’s annual conference in Austin, Texas. No wonder it’s so hard to get a real sense of the size of the telehealth and telemedicine market when there are so many components and so many different definitions. This is a row of banners outside the meeting rooms highlighting the various types, not to mention some of the ATA’s constituencies and important topics at the conference. I did the voice-over at 1:30 in the morning.
Related posts:
Breaking down ignorance about telehealth
Skype for ‘redneck...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - May 8, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: health IT Healthcare IT Innovation international mobile remote monitoring Telehealth video aging in place American Telemedicine Association home monitoring videoconferencing wireless Source Type: blogs
Breaking down ignorance about telehealth
AUSTIN, Texas — I’m at my very first American Telemedicine Association annual conference, which starts later this afternoon. This morning, I gave a short presentation to the ATA’s Industry Council, made up of technology vendors, about trends in the telehealth industry.
My slides are here: ATA 2013 presentation.
I want to draw your attention in particular to slide 9, which is a letter to the editor of the Kearney (Neb.) Hub newspaper. Honestly, it’s one of the most ignorant, poorly argued pieces of garbage I’ve seen in a long time, and I can’t believe the editor actually accepted it and publi...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - May 5, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil VerselNeil Versel Tags: health IT Healthcare IT Telehealth American Telemedicine Association ATA 2013 consumer health information mental health Nebraska Source Type: blogs
Health eVillages and mobile health in the developing world
I’m in New York today for a Health eVillages board meeting. It’s a program that provides mobile health tools to help extend the reach and knowledge of health workers in remote and underserved parts of the world — including in rural Southern Louisiana. The meeting opened with this powerful video that explains the power of this program.
I can’t say anything more about Health eVillages now, but there is some big news coming this summer.
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Learn about Health eVillages at HIMSS12
Health eVillages is Monday’s AOL ’cause of the day’
Announcing Health eVillages (Source: Neil Ver...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - April 30, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: international mobile video Health eVillages Kenya Louisiana Source Type: blogs
