The connected EHR, cooperative med devices, and accountable tech are the future of health IT
Earlier this week I spoke at Atlanta Healthcare IT Leadership Summit on Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and what I call“accountable tech“. I was pleasantly surprised to learn most of the audience agreed that ACOs can’t succeed without the right technology but am continuously disappointed as to how little we as an industry are doing about it.
Accountable tech is health IT that truly enables the slow but emerging move from fee for service (FFS) based payments to value-driven and outcomes based payments. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - November 15, 2013 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
The connected EHR, cooperative med devices, and accountable tech are the future of health IT
Earlier this week I spoke at Atlanta Healthcare IT Leadership Summit on Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and what I call “accountable tech“. I was pleasantly surprised to learn most of the audience agreed that ACOs can’t succeed without the right technology but am continuously disappointed as to how little we as an industry are doing about it.
Accountable tech is health IT that truly enables the slow but emerging move from fee for service (FFS) based payments to value-driven and outcomes based payments. Healthcare is not some system of payments or abstract concept of service — it’s what e...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - November 15, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Guest Article: When Things Go Wrong, The Caterer Gets The Blame
Carl Bergman, a seasoned systems analyst and project manager, is Managing Partner of EHRSelector.com and has been sharing a number of ideas for improving EHR usability with me via email. Since I loved his enthusiasm and agreed with his ideas, I invited Carl to share with us some more detail around how to improve the EHR user experience. Here ’s what Carl had to say:
Earlier this year, we went to an outdoor wedding. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - November 11, 2013 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Guest Article: When Things Go Wrong, The Caterer Gets The Blame
Carl Bergman, a seasoned systems analyst and project manager, is Managing Partner of EHRSelector.com and has been sharing a number of ideas for improving EHR usability with me via email. Since I loved his enthusiasm and agreed with his ideas, I invited Carl to share with us some more detail around how to improve the EHR user experience. Here’s what Carl had to say:
Earlier this year, we went to an outdoor wedding. It was wonderful. The weather, the bride, the ceremony and the food that followed were all great. Curious, I asked the caterer how she did it. Here’s what she told me:
“We do dozens of these a year, most go...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - November 11, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Why is there a lack of sophisticated UX, usability, and UI discipline in the current design of safety-critical apps and devices?
A friend of mine, a User Interaction (UI)/User Experience (UX) designer and a usability expert that is doing some work at a technology-based medical device client, wrote to me wondering why many medical device companies don ’t have much of a UX/UI and usability focused discipline in their marketing and product design teams. The simple reason is that many device manufacturers are still following top-down monolithic processes like waterfall instead of more agile processes that allow feedback-driven requirements definit ion. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - October 24, 2013 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Why is there a lack of sophisticated UX, usability, and UI discipline in the current design of safety-critical apps and devices?
A friend of mine, a User Interaction (UI)/User Experience (UX) designer and a usability expert that is doing some work at a technology-based medical device client, wrote to me wondering why many medical device companies don’t have much of a UX/UI and usability focused discipline in their marketing and product design teams. The simple reason is that many device manufacturers are still following top-down monolithic processes like waterfall instead of more agile processes that allow feedback-driven requirements definition. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - October 24, 2013 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Why is there a lack of sophisticated UX, usability, and UI discipline in the current design of safety-critical apps and devices?
A friend of mine, a User Interaction (UI)/User Experience (UX) designer and a usability expert that is doing some work at a technology-based medical device client, wrote to me wondering why many medical device companies don’t have much of a UX/UI and usability focused discipline in their marketing and product design teams. The simple reason is that many device manufacturers are still following top-down monolithic processes like waterfall instead of more agile processes that allow feedback-driven requirements definition. Requirements engineering is a formal process in a safety-critical design world inhabited by device...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - October 24, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Join me next week for a free webinar where I answer “How do we get beyond Meaningful Use rhetoric and ‘disruption in healthcare’ bloviation and into actionable innovation?”
I speak at many of conferences and webinars each year and I have been hearing that attendees and audiences are starting to get tired of hearing about big data, Meaningful Use, and ‘disruption in healthcare’ topics without more actionable advice. Many entrepreneurs and speakers at the events are still focusing on why technology and IT solutions are helpful in healthcare but customers are more sophisticated these days and they want to know more about how to apply that knowl edge into their daily routines. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - October 21, 2013 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Join me next week for a free webinar where I answer “How do we get beyond Meaningful Use rhetoric and ‘disruption in healthcare’ bloviation and into actionable innovation?”
I speak at many of conferences and webinars each year and I have been hearing that attendees and audiences are starting to get tired of hearing about big data, Meaningful Use, and‘disruption in healthcare’ topics without more actionable advice. Many entrepreneurs and speakers at the events are still focusing on why technology and IT solutions are helpful in healthcare but customers are more sophisticated these days and they want to know more about how to apply that knowledge into their daily routines. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - October 21, 2013 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Join me next week for a free webinar where I answer “How do we get beyond Meaningful Use rhetoric and ‘disruption in healthcare’ bloviation and into actionable innovation?”
I speak at many of conferences and webinars each year and I have been hearing that attendees and audiences are starting to get tired of hearing about big data, Meaningful Use, and ‘disruption in healthcare’ topics without more actionable advice. Many entrepreneurs and speakers at the events are still focusing on why technology and IT solutions are helpful in healthcare but customers are more sophisticated these days and they want to know more about how to apply that knowledge into their daily routines. The days of wondering whether health tech is good or not are long gone — everyone knows tech is good and...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - October 21, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
