March 16, 2010 – 11:05 am
Amongst all of the chattering about HIEs (Health Information Exchanges) and meaningful use at this year’s HIMSS annual meeting, there was a more exciting theme running through the conference (at least it was more exciting for me).
2010 was the coming out party for consumer facing technology at HIMSS! This meeting has overwhelmingly been about internal IT concerns within care organizations. For the first time this year, HIMSS looked at health consumers as something more than an input and output to ... Read More >>
Closing keynotes at conferences are a mixed bag. They’re typically heavy on the rah-rah inspiration and light on the actionable content that’s relevant to why the audience attended.
Still it was hard not to be excited to hear Capt. Chesley Bernett “Sully” Sullenberger III present the final remarks at HIMSS last week. Capt. Sullenberger was the face of the “Miracle on the Hudson” event in January last year. The Airbus A320 he was piloting struck a flock of birds, lost two ... Read More >>
One of my favorite things about HIMSS 2010 was the active social media conversations occurring around the meeting. A number of sessions gained an active conversation in the audience as the presentations were underway – sharing key insights, posing questions to one another and posting links to information being referenced by presenters.
One of the key changes undertaken by the HIMSS social media crew was to move from a proprietary social networking tool used in years past to the places where ... Read More >>
Remember the days when we had to actually GO to the bank to get cash? When we had to wait for our monthly statement to know if a certain check cleared or not? When we had to call a teller to ask to transfer money from savings to checking? And it all had to be done between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm Monday – Friday (or those few morning hours on Saturday).
Think back to when banks decided to move to ... Read More >>
One of the great challenges in providing connected portals for patients is proving that the person using the portal is the person he/she claims to be. It’s a problem known as identity proofing and getting it right or wrong greatly impacts the success of your portal.
The American Health Information Community (AHIC) looked into this challenge in 2007 through its Confidentiality, Privacy and Security (CPS) workgroup. We’re starting to see how some of these approaches are applied in real-world solutions.
The gold-standard ... Read More >>
As we try to reconcile the growing need for healthcare services with a far less elastic number of healthcare providers and financial resources, there is a need for us to get data directly from patients on a routine business. New care delivery models such as medical home are dependent on this kind of regular monitoring.
The problem is that the average person isn’t excited about plugging in data every day. There are a few who will do it, and many people ... Read More >>
The annual conference of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is in full swing. It’s an incredible group to immerse yourself in for a few days, with tens of thousands of people representing all aspects of the healthcare continuum sharing ideas and bragging about what they’ve accomplished over the past year.
Much of the focus this year is on achieving meaningful use as providers seek to get their share of the ARRA pie.
As a part of this are the parameters ... Read More >>
February 17, 2010 – 2:00 pm
It’s one of those early lessons in business – understand who your customer is, segment your audiences, don’t sell to the ones you can’t service profitably, and try to capture as much of the available value as you can from each group. Businesses that do this well can thrive. Those who fail to pay heed to this rule tend not to last very long.
It sounds crass, but it’s a reality of business. This is what Apple does when it charges ... Read More >>
February 11, 2010 – 9:46 am
Search players have been dancing around the margins of social media for the past several months. Google and Bing have been integrating social media – such as blogs, Twitter and ratings from sites like Yelp – into search results. Anyone who’s playing in the space has realized this is a mere dipping of their toes into the water.
This week, Google made a considerably bigger splash.
The social networks as they exist today represent a significant departure from the way the Web ... Read More >>
February 5, 2010 – 8:10 am
While much of the response to the ARRA meaningful use rules has been optimistic, there is a growing list of individuals and organizations expressing concerns about the legislation including, it appears, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa.
I’ve personally written off the complaints that achieving these goals are going to be hard. If it were easy, we wouldn’t be making this much fuss about them. But there are some very valid concerns about the legislation, many of which are summarized in Anthony ... Read More >>
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