New Media Meetup at HIMSS15 showcases Chicago icon
The New Media Meetup, now in its sixth year, has become a staple at the annual HIMSS conference. As a longtime resident of Chicago, I’m excited to tell you that this year’s event will be held at the legendary Gino’s East pizzeria, Tuesday, April 14 from 6 to 8 p.m. CDT.
As usual, your host will be John Lynn, founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network, of which Meaningful HIT News is a member. Here are the basics:
When: Tuesday 4/14 6:00-8:00 PM
Where: Gino’s East, 162 E. Superior St., Chicago, IL 60611 MAP
Who: Anyone who uses or is interested in New Media (Blogs, Twitter, Social Media, etc)
What: ...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - March 17, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Neil Versel Tags: blogging health IT Healthcare IT HIMSS personal notes social media Chicago Healthcare Scene HIMSS15 New Media Meetup Source Type: blogs
So you want a meeting at HIMSS15?
HIMSS15 is less than a month away. The vendor requests for meetings of course have started coming in.
Every year I seem to do fewer and fewer, for several reasons. First off, they’re exhausting. The exhibit hall is huge. This year, it looks like exhibits will fill the entirety of the McCormick Place North Building (705,500 square feet of exhibit space) and South Building (840,000 square feet), and that doesn’t even count the meeting rooms or auditoriums for keynotes. The press room and many of the educational sessions are in the West Building, at least a 15-minute walk from the show floor.
HIMSS says to expec...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - March 13, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Neil Versel Tags: blogging health IT Healthcare IT HIMSS media rants vendors HIMSS15 Source Type: blogs
MGMA hires physician, bestselling author as CEO
The Medical Group Management Association has filled the leadership void created when Susan Turney, M.D., left in July, hiring Halee S. Fischer-Wright, M.D., as its new president and CEO. She will start March 23.
According to Englewood, Colo.-based MGMA, Fischer-Wright, a longtime physician executive, is CMO of St. Anthony North Health Campus, a Centura Health System facility in Westminster, Colo. She previously was president of Rose Medical Group, a large, Denver-based management services organization. Fischer-Wright also was one of three authors of Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Org...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - February 20, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Neil Versel Tags: practice management Centura Health Halee Fischer-Wright MGMA Susan Turney Source Type: blogs
Health eVillages update: Expanding a rural hospital in Kenya
As you may know, I am a member of the advisory board of Health eVillages. Every so often, the organization does something extraordinary, and I want to share one of those moments here. Actually, I want to share two.
In December, Health eVillages Founder Donato Tramuto, CEO of Physicians Interactive, won a tremendous honor, a 2014 RFK Ripple of Hope Award, from the newly renamed Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization. (The other three honorees were three nobodies named Robert De Niro, Tony Bennett and Hillary Clinton.)
Today, Health eVillages released this bit of news:
Health eVillages Raises Funds to Expand Rural...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - January 27, 2015 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: international mobile philanthropy Donato Tramuto Health eVillages Kenya Lwala Community Alliance maternal health Physicians Interactive RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights rural health Source Type: blogs
I’m joining TriMed Media’s Clinical Innovation + Technology
I have some big news to share with you this Friday afternoon. I have accepted an offer to become digital editor of Clinical Innovation+ Technology, a publication you may be familiar with. I’ll be responsible for the daily e-mail newsletter, among other things. It’s my first full-time job since the end of 2003.
Clinical Innovation + Technology is published by TriMed Media Group of Providence, R.I., which also publishes Health Imaging + IT, Cardiovascular Business, Healthcare Technology Management, Health CXO and the recently revived CMIO. (I freelanced for the first few issues of the original incarnation of ...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - January 23, 2015 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: CMIOs health IT Healthcare IT media personal notes Clinical Innovation & Technology TriMed Media Source Type: blogs
Cameras in operating rooms?
As you know, I’ve become rather obsessed with patient safety ever since I watched bad things happen to my dying father nearly three years ago, so I wanted to pass along a petition and gauge people’s opinions. Should cameras be mandatory in operating rooms? Some people think so. There’s obviously a growing movement in the U.S. to equip police officers with body cameras, in the name of protecting police and the public alike. There just might be a parallel for surgery teams and patients.
A petition went online late last month as Causes.com, calling on legislators to require OR cameras “to reduce harm,...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - January 13, 2015 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: health IT health reform Healthcare IT patient safety error reporting malpractice medical liability OR cameras Patient Safety America Source Type: blogs
Stage 3 Meaningful Use proposals at White House for final review
Why do these things always seem to happen late on Friday afternoons? At least this time it’s not right before a holiday. Actually, with a bit more inspection, I see that it did happen right before a holiday.
HIMSS is reporting today that the White House’s Office of Management and Budget is “in its final stages of review” of the proposed rules for Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use EHR incentive program. OMB always goes over proposed and final regulations to measure the fiscal — and, presumably, political — impact before allowing executive-branch agencies to make public releases.
A peek at OMBR...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - January 9, 2015 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: ARRA certification CMS EMR/EHR meaningful use ONC regulations HIMSS Office of Management and Budget Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Health Wonk Review for the holidays
The final Health Wonk Review of 2014 is up (actually, it’s been up for five days, but I’ve been buried with deadlines until this morning), courtesy of Julie Ferguson and the Lynch Ryan Workers’ Comp Insider blog. My Forbes.com post on the recent reality checks for healthcare wearables makes this biweekly review of the best of the healthcare blogosphere. (I also did a follow-up, featuring an ESPN “Sport Science” segment sponsored by Fitbit.) FWIW, the comments have been closed on the LinkedIn Digital Health Group item about my original post.
There isn’t much else in the realm of health...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - December 23, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Accountable Care Organizations consumerism health IT health reform Healthcare IT Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act remote monitoring ESPN Forbes.com wearable sensors Source Type: blogs
Join the discussion about wearable technology
The thing about the Internet is that you never know when something is going to go viral or spark heated debate. (Actually, it’s a fairly sure bet that anything involving politics, religion or sports will lead to heated debate, generally of the lowbrow variety.)
Less common is informed, intelligent discussion on the Internet. Something I wrote early yesterday for Forbes.com has, happily, fallen into this category.
My post, “Hype Around Healthcare Wearables Runs Into Reality,” is far from the most inflammatory piece I’ve written about overblown hype in healthcare innovation, or, as Dr. Joseph Kvedar ...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - December 11, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: health reform Healthcare IT Innovation interoperability mobile remote monitoring social media digital health Forbes.com Joseph Kvedar LinkedIn wearable sensors wireless Source Type: blogs
Health Wonk Review talks turkey
I’ve been a bit remiss the last few days, in that the latest Health Wonk Review came out Thursday, and I’m just getting around to sharing it now.( Blog carnivals work best when contributors link back to the compilation.) But, better late than never, right?
In that spirit, and in the spirit of Thanksgiving, I invite you to check out Health Wonk Review: The Turkey Edition, hosted by David Harlow on his HealthBlawg. The big stories this time around are all about insurance coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a., Obamacare, but there is also an interesting posts about “wrist ...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - November 25, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: EMR/EHR health IT health reform Health Wonk Review Healthcare IT meaningful use Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act regulations AMA American Medical Association Medicare pharma Source Type: blogs
CMS extends 2014 MU hospital attestation until end of year
Just days before the clock was to run out on hospitals, including Critical Access Hospitals, hoping to attest to Meaningful Use of EHRs for 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has pushed back the attestation deadline by a month, until Dec. 31.
In an announcement posted yesterday on the CMS Meaningful Use registration and attestation login page, CMS said: “CMS is extending the deadline for Eligible Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) to attest to meaningful use for the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program 2014 reporting year from 11:59 pm EST on November 30, 2014 to...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - November 25, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: ARRA CMS EMR/EHR health IT Healthcare IT meaningful use regulations Critical Access Hospitals Medicare Source Type: blogs
