7 digital health innovations and investments for 2015
The folks from HP Matter digital magazine wanted to know where I thought digital health startups, product innovators, and venture capital investors should be pointing their attention in 2015. These are some of my technology and healthcare predictions:
CMS’s request for information (RFI) on new primary care models bears innovative fruit. Interoperability will move beyond talk and into sustainable business models and real technology. The healthcare ecosystem should be able to create lasting patient benefits. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - February 17, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Who should be held accountable for risk management and cybersecurity in healthcare institutions?
_I ’ve been involved in building many life-critical and mission-critical products over the last 25 years and have found that, finally, cybersecurity is getting the kind of attention it deserves. We’re slowly and steadily moving from “HIPAA Compliance” silliness into a more mature and discipline d professional focus on risk management, continuous risk monitoring, and actual security tasks concentrating on real technical vulnerabilities and proper training of users (instead of just “security theater”). (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - January 22, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Who should be held accountable for risk management and cybersecurity in healthcare institutions?
_I’ve been involved in building many life-critical and mission-critical products over the last 25 years and have found that, finally, cybersecurity is getting the kind of attention it deserves. We’re slowly and steadily moving from“HIPAA Compliance” silliness into a more mature and disciplined professional focus on risk management, continuous risk monitoring, and actual security tasks concentrating on real technical vulnerabilities and proper training of users (instead of just“security theater”). (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - January 22, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Who should be held accountable for risk management and cybersecurity in healthcare institutions?
I’ve been involved in building many life-critical and mission-critical products over the last 25 years and have found that, finally, cybersecurity is getting the kind of attention it deserves. We’re slowly and steadily moving from “HIPAA Compliance” silliness into a more mature and disciplined professional focus on risk management, continuous risk monitoring, and actual security tasks concentrating on real technical vulnerabilities and proper training of users (instead of just “security theater”). I believe that security, like quality, is an emergent property of the system and its intera...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - January 22, 2015 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Cyber Security Information Assurance (IA) and Security Risk Management advisor to business and technology leaders billing department manager build systems CISO Computer network security Computer security Data security Database Manager Source Type: blogs
Second annual Healthcare IT Marketing Conference (HITMC)
John Lynn, prolific blogger and health IT media magnate, and I are teaming up again for the second year to produce and deliver a marketing conference focused on helping digital health, health IT, and medical device innovators. We ’re going to be providing actionable advice and specific techniques you can use to cut through the noise when trying to market healthcare and medical tech products to physicians, hospitals, health systems, ACOs, patients, and similar customers. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - December 15, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Second annual Healthcare IT Marketing Conference (HITMC)
John Lynn, prolific blogger and health IT media magnate, and I are teaming up again for the second year to produce and deliver a marketing conference focused on helping digital health, health IT, and medical device innovators. We’re going to be providing actionable advice and specific techniques you can use to cut through the noise when trying to market healthcare and medical tech products to physicians, hospitals, health systems, ACOs, patients, and similar customers. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - December 15, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Second annual Healthcare IT Marketing Conference (HITMC)
John Lynn, prolific blogger and health IT media magnate, and I are teaming up again for the second year to produce and deliver a marketing conference focused on helping digital health, health IT, and medical device innovators. We’re going to be providing actionable advice and specific techniques you can use to cut through the noise when trying to market healthcare and medical tech products to physicians, hospitals, health systems, ACOs, patients, and similar customers. Called The Healthcare IT Marketing Conference, last year’s event covered very important subjects by some of the world’s best experts on th...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - December 15, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Events Startups Featured Healthcare business models Healthcare IT Healthcare marketing Source Type: blogs
Is Meaningful Use working and what can innovators do to help with EHR adoption?
Earlier this year NueMD created a nice looking Meaningful Use Infographic — asking the question whether MU was helping or hurting EHR Adoption. I loved the summary but I wanted to dig in a little further so I asked Dr. William Rusnak, a resident physician in radiology and a healthcare IT writer for NueMD, to tell us what that infographic meant for innovators and folks b uilding solutions. Here’s what Dr. Rusnak said: (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - November 9, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Is Meaningful Use working and what can innovators do to help with EHR adoption?
Earlier this year NueMD created a nice looking Meaningful Use Infographic— asking the question whether MU was helping or hurting EHR Adoption. I loved the summary but I wanted to dig in a little further so I asked Dr. William Rusnak, a resident physician in radiology and a healthcare IT writer for NueMD, to tell us what that infographic meant for innovators and folks building solutions. Here’s what Dr. Rusnak said: (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - November 9, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Is Meaningful Use working and what can innovators do to help with EHR adoption?
Earlier this year NueMD created a nice looking Meaningful Use Infographic — asking the question whether MU was helping or hurting EHR Adoption. I loved the summary but I wanted to dig in a little further so I asked Dr. William Rusnak, a resident physician in radiology and a healthcare IT writer for NueMD, to tell us what that infographic meant for innovators and folks building solutions. Here’s what Dr. Rusnak said:
When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched their Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Programs, coined “Meaningful Use” (MU) back in January 2011, the main goal was ...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - November 9, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: EHR Meaningful Use EHR adoption Electronic health record Featured Source Type: blogs
Health IT and digital health job opportunities, qualifications, and certification benefits
I ’ve written a number of articles and a few video interviews on job opportunities in digital health recently and have received a steady stream of questions since then. Given healthcare IT professionals can make $90,000 or more annually, there has been growing interest in the industry. To help separ ate fact from fiction and dive a little deeper in to the realities of these opportunities, I reached out to Beth Kelly, a freelance writer from Chicago, IL to summarize the projected outlook for specialized positions within the field of health IT. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - October 26, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
