Video: where I see health IT data today and where it’s probably going
The nice folks at Iron Mountain, a publicly traded storage and information management services company, reached out to me during the summer and asked what I think the challenges are around healthcare data management. They recorded my answers in a series of interviews published as part of National Health IT Week (Sep 16th-20th). Here’s the first of the series:
Many of you probably already know Iron Mountain as a records management, data backup and recovery, document management, and secure shredding company because they’ve been doing that kind of work for years across many different industries. What you probably...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - September 23, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Guest Article: Creating a Culture of Adoption for EHRs and Health IT
It is general knowledge among seasoned EHR implementers that EHR technology is not the primary concern when promoting EHR adoption (while there are many areas of potential improvements, the tech is generally “good enough” in most cases). There are, however, many challenges surrounding the deployments EHRs and one of the biggest is that not enough training or pre work done to prepare staff and resources. A great way to ensure EHR success is by creating a “Culture of Adoption,” which is something I discussed at length with my friend John Lynn after he attended a recent “think tank” style event hosted at TEDMED by...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - September 9, 2013 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Guest Article: Creating a Culture of Adoption for EHRs and Health IT
It is general knowledge among seasoned EHR implementers that EHR technology is not the primary concern when promoting EHR adoption (while there are many areas of potential improvements, the tech is generally “good enough” in most cases). There are, however, many challenges surrounding the deployments EHRs and one of the biggest is that not enough training or pre work done to prepare staff and resources. A great way to ensure EHR success is by creating a “Culture of Adoption,” which is something I discussed at length with my friend John Lynn after he attended a recent “think tank” style event hosted at TEDMED by...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - September 9, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Thoughts on HIT (technical) certifications vs. graduate degrees
These days I ’ve been getting an increasing number of questions from some very smart readers of this blog about whether or not graduate degrees or technical (HIT-specific or otherwise) certifications are worth the effort. I’ve written a few posts recently on similar topics and those are worth reviewing:
Che ck out these videos if you’re looking for healthcare IT jobs The realities of getting a job in healthcare IT How to get a job in healthcare IT when you don’t have specific experience My view on HIT (or other technical) certifications The last post in the list above goes into specific detail abo ut what I think ...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - July 3, 2013 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Thoughts on HIT (technical) certifications vs. graduate degrees
These days I’ve been getting an increasing number of questions from some very smart readers of this blog about whether or not graduate degrees or technical (HIT-specific or otherwise) certifications are worth the effort. I’ve written a few posts recently on similar topics and those are worth reviewing:
Check out these videos if you ’re looking for healthcare IT jobs The realities of getting a job in healthcare IT How to get a job in healthcare IT when you don’t have specific experience My view on HIT (or other technical) certifications The last post in the list above goes into specific detail about what I...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - July 3, 2013 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Thoughts on HIT (technical) certifications vs. graduate degrees
These days I’ve been getting an increasing number of questions from some very smart readers of this blog about whether or not graduate degrees or technical (HIT-specific or otherwise) certifications are worth the effort. I’ve written a few posts recently on similar topics and those are worth reviewing:
Check out these videos if you’re looking for healthcare IT jobs
The realities of getting a job in healthcare IT
How to get a job in healthcare IT when you don’t have specific experience
My view on HIT (or other technical) certifications
The last post in the list above goes into specific detail about what I ...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - July 3, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
How liability distribution is holding back certain types of innovation in healthcare
I recently posted about my upcoming Healthcare Unbound presentation on why healthcare disruption is happening too slowly and requested some thoughts from my readers. This morning I woke up to receive these terrific remarks from Jeroen Bouwens which I’m sharing with permission:
My theory as to what is holding back certain types of innovation in hea lthcare is the idea of distributing liability. As long as the ultimate responsibility, and therefore liability, lies with the Medical practitioner, they are extremely reluctant to accept automated systems making medical decisions. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - June 15, 2013 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
How liability distribution is holding back certain types of innovation in healthcare
I recently posted about my upcoming Healthcare Unbound presentation on why healthcare disruption is happening too slowly and requested some thoughts from my readers. This morning I woke up to receive these terrific remarks from Jeroen Bouwens which I’m sharing with permission:
My theory as to what is holding back certain types of innovation in healthcare is the idea of distributing liability. As long as the ultimate responsibility, and therefore liability, lies with the Medical practitioner, they are extremely reluctant to accept automated systems making medical decisions. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - June 15, 2013 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
How liability distribution is holding back certain types of innovation in healthcare
I recently posted about my upcoming Healthcare Unbound presentation on why healthcare disruption is happening too slowly and requested some thoughts from my readers. This morning I woke up to receive these terrific remarks from Jeroen Bouwens which I’m sharing with permission:
My theory as to what is holding back certain types of innovation in healthcare is the idea of distributing liability. As long as the ultimate responsibility, and therefore liability, lies with the Medical practitioner, they are extremely reluctant to accept automated systems making medical decisions.
At the same time, medical device manufac...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - June 15, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Guest Article: Shakespeare in Namespace, or why Blue Button took off as fast as it did
I had the privilege of working with Dr. Peter Levin as an outside technology strategy adviser while he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Veterans Affairs during the first Obama Administration. Peter’s a hard-charging, fast-moving, take-no-prisoners style senior technical executive; he was an entrepreneur, professor, and engineer long before he came into government so it was no surprise that he was able to accomplish a great deal during his tenure as the CTO of VA. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - June 15, 2013 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Guest Article: Shakespeare in Namespace, or why Blue Button took off as fast as it did
I had the privilege of working with Dr. Peter Levin as an outside technology strategy adviser while he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Veterans Affairs during the first Obama Administration. Peter’s a hard-charging, fast-moving, take-no-prisoners style senior technical executive; he was an entrepreneur, professor, and engineer long before he came into government so it was no surprise that he was able to accomplish a great deal during his tenure as the CTO of VA. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - June 15, 2013 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
