Anecdote-driven systems engineering and complaint-based interoperability design will not solve health IT woes
As I’ve been preparing to chair the HealthIMPACT conference in Houston next Thursday I’ve been having some terrific conversations with big companies like Cisco, some of our publishing partners, and smaller vendors entering the health IT space for the first time. One great question I was asked during a discussing yesterday by a tech publisher was“so what’s it going to take to achieve real interoperability in healthcare and how long will it take? (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - March 27, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs

Anecdote-driven systems engineering and complaint-based interoperability design will not solve health IT woes
As I’ve been preparing to chair the HealthIMPACT conference in Houston next Thursday I’ve been having some terrific conversations with big companies like Cisco, some of our publishing partners, and smaller vendors entering the health IT space for the first time. One great question I was asked during a discussing yesterday by a tech publisher was “so what’s it going to take to achieve real interoperability in healthcare and how long will it take?” To that my answer was: We need to move from anecdote-driven systems engineering to evidence-driven systems engineering and We need to move from comp...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - March 27, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

What does it take to get beyond hype in health IT and focus on valuable, actionable, practical, relevant content?
My friend John Lynn was kind enough to cover the new HealthIMPACT Conference that I ’m chairing in Houston on April 3 in his recent piece entitled “Getting Beyond the Health IT Cheerleaders, BS, and Hype Machine“. While the article was great, Beth Friedman’s comment was priceless: What are the criteria to be considered part of the cheerleader squad? This PR agency wants to be sure we are providing valuable, actionable, [practical], relevant content…. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - March 20, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs

What does it take to get beyond hype in health IT and focus on valuable, actionable, practical, relevant content?
My friend John Lynn was kind enough to cover the new HealthIMPACT Conference that I’m chairing in Houston on April 3 in his recent piece entitled“Getting Beyond the Health IT Cheerleaders, BS, and Hype Machine“. While the article was great, Beth Friedman’s comment was priceless: What are the criteria to be considered part of the cheerleader squad? This PR agency wants to be sure we are providing valuable, actionable, [practical], relevant content…. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - March 20, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs

What does it take to get beyond hype in health IT and focus on valuable, actionable, practical, relevant content?
My friend John Lynn was kind enough to cover the new HealthIMPACT Conference that I’m chairing in Houston on April 3 in his recent piece entitled “Getting Beyond the Health IT Cheerleaders, BS, and Hype Machine“. While the article was great, Beth Friedman’s comment was priceless: What are the criteria to be considered part of the cheerleader squad? This PR agency wants to be sure we are providing valuable, actionable, [practical], relevant content….NOT HYPE! And we’re open to your guidance. John gave her a great reply: It’s interesting how in high school you always wanted to be a cheer...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - March 20, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Help us make sure HealthIMPACT events are useful and actionable
This year I ’m chairing a healthcare IT event series called HealthIMPACT — it’s what I’m hoping will be some of the best places for healthcare technology enthusiasts and buyers to get actionable advice on what’s real, what’s BS, what to buy, what not to buy, and perhaps most importantly, which guida nce is worth following. In order to make sure we cover the right topics, we have created a very short survey so that we have some evidence-driven approaches to proving we’re focusing on the right areas. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - March 7, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs

Help us make sure HealthIMPACT events are useful and actionable
This year I’m chairing a healthcare IT event series called HealthIMPACT— it’s what I’m hoping will be some of the best places for healthcare technology enthusiasts and buyers to get actionable advice on what’s real, what’s BS, what to buy, what not to buy, and perhaps most importantly, which guidance is worth following. In order to make sure we cover the right topics, we have created a very short survey so that we have some evidence-driven approaches to proving we’re focusing on the right areas. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - March 7, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs

Help us make sure HealthIMPACT events are useful and actionable
This year I’m chairing a healthcare IT event series called HealthIMPACT — it’s what I’m hoping will be some of the best places for healthcare technology enthusiasts and buyers to get actionable advice on what’s real, what’s BS, what to buy, what not to buy, and perhaps most importantly, which guidance is worth following. In order to make sure we cover the right topics, we have created a very short survey so that we have some evidence-driven approaches to proving we’re focusing on the right areas. The survey should only take a couple of minutes to take and includes the following que...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - March 7, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Learn how to cut through the noise at the first ever Health IT Marketing Conference
John Lynn, prolific blogger and health IT media magnate,  and I are teaming up to produce and deliver the world’s first marketing conference focused on helping innovators cut through the noise when trying to market their healthcare and medical tech products to physicians, hospitals, and similar customers. Called The Healthcare IT Marketing Conference, it will cover very important subjects by some of the world’s best experts on those topics. Learn how to align the Payers, Beneficiaries, and Users (PBU) of your Health IT or MedTech product (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - March 5, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs

Learn how to cut through the noise at the first ever Health IT Marketing Conference
John Lynn, prolific blogger and health IT media magnate,  and I are teaming up to produce and deliver the world’s first marketing conference focused on helping innovators cut through the noise when trying to market their healthcare and medical tech products to physicians, hospitals, and similar customers. Called  The Healthcare IT Marketing Conference, it will cover very important subjects by some of the world’s best experts on those topics. Learn how to align the Payers, Beneficiaries, and Users (PBU) of your Health IT or MedTech product (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - March 5, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs

Learn how to cut through the noise at the first ever Health IT Marketing Conference
John Lynn, prolific blogger and health IT media magnate, and I are teaming up to produce and deliver the world’s first marketing conference focused on helping innovators cut through the noise when trying to market their healthcare and medical tech products to physicians, hospitals, and similar customers. Called The Healthcare IT Marketing Conference, it will cover very important subjects by some of the world’s best experts on those topics. Learn how to align the Payers, Beneficiaries, and Users (PBU) of your Health IT or MedTech product There are three distinct groups you’re marketing and selling your p...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - March 5, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs