Video: My interview with Phytel’s Steve Schelhammer from Health 2.0
Last fall, I conducted one of the “3 CEOs” interviews at the 2012 Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. For my interview, I drew Steve Schelhammer, CEO of Phytel, a population health management technology provider. Aside from a little technical glitch — one that got edited out of this clip — with Schelhammer’s earpiece microphone not working, I think this went very well. The most amazing part is that this was the first session of the morning and not only was I on time, I was awake and alert.
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Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - February 21, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Accountable Care Organizations care coordination consumerism data mining disease management health 2.0 health reform Don Berwick patient-centered medical home Phytel population health video Source Type: blogs
My HIMSS will be all about quality and patient safety
As regular readers might already know, 2012 was a transformative year in my life, and mostly not in a good way. I ended the year on a high note, taking a character-building six-day, 400-mile bike tour through the mountains, desert and coastline of Southern California that brought rain, mud, cold, more climbing than my poor legs could ever hope to endure in the Midwest, some harrowing descents and even a hail storm. But the final leg from Oceanside to San Diego felt triumphant, like I was cruising down the Champs-Élysées during last stage of the Tour de France, save the stop at the original Rubio’s fish taco stand a...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - February 14, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Accountable Care Organizations education EMR/EHR Finance health information exchange health IT health reform Healthcare IT HIMSS HIPAA hospitals ICD-10 Innovation interoperability meaningful use medical errors medical infor Source Type: blogs
Hotels open up for HIMSS13
Here’s a quick travel update for those of you still making plans for HIMSS13 in New Orleans next month. Today, OnPeak, the travel service that HIMSS has contracted with, seems to have released a number of hotel rooms for the week of the conference.
I had been waiting to book for a few weeks since I first heard that rooms would open on Jan. 30 or so after vendors, which apparently claimed big blocks of rooms months ago, had to give their final numbers. That didn’t happen, and I was starting to sweat a bit. But I made my reservation today, and am near enough to the Morial Convention Center that I don’t have...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - February 11, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: ARRA EMR/EHR health reform HIMSS vendors Gartner HIMSS13 meaningful use usability Source Type: blogs
AliveCor gets some airtime, too
I’ve had a lot of traffic to this site today because of Dr. Eric Topol’s appearance on “Rock Center with Brian Williams” on NBC last night, which I posted early this morning. As I mention in my related story in MobiHealthNews, Topol showed, among other gadgets, the iPhone ECG, the recently FDA-cleared iPhone add-on from Dr. Dave Albert and AliveCor.
The iPhone ECG also got a mention on Fox News’ Sunday Housecall on Jan. 6, in the form of a discussion between Dr. Marc Siegel and Dr. David Samadi, who actually disagree about the usefulness of the product. Siegel thinks it might be a bit frivolou...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - January 26, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Healthcare IT imaging Innovation mobile vendors video AliveCor Dave Albert David Samadi Eric Topol Fox News iPhone iPhone ECG Marc Siegel Source Type: blogs
Dr. Eric Topol on NBC’s ‘Rock Center’
Digital health’s rock star, Dr. Eric Topol, appeared Thursday night on “Rock Center with Brian Williams” to discuss the potential of wireless and mobile health technology with NBC’s Dr. Nancy Snyderman. I have a full recap in MobiHealthNews that will appear Friday morning, but I also have the full video of the segment right here:
I have a feeling it will open some eyes among those in the general public who think the status quo in medicine is acceptable and really the best we can do. Obviously, we can do better. We should do better. We must do better.
UPDATE: Here’s the MobiHealthNews s...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - January 25, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: health IT health reform imaging Innovation patient safety physicians quality video Eric Topol home monitoring mobile Nancy Snyderman NBC Scripps Health wireless Source Type: blogs
California HealthCare Foundation CEO Smith stepping down
This comes in late on a Friday, though not as late on the West Coast, where it happened: The California HealthCare Foundation announced that founding President and CEO Mark D. Smith, M.D., will be leaving the influential organization later this year. Over the years, Smith has been a vocal advocate for quality improvement via, among other things, health IT.
I’ve had the pleasure of hearing Smith speak and interviewing him several times over the years, notably at the 2009 American Medical Informatics Association conference and at the 2011 Health 2.0 conference. (Coincidentally or not, both took place at the San Francis...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - January 12, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: health IT health reform Healthcare IT informatics Innovation patient safety physicians AMIA California HealthCare Foundation evidence-based medicine Health 2.0 Ian Morrison leadership development Mark Smith Source Type: blogs
