December 2009 - EHR: How difficult without the correct strategy

What may be driving the Meaningful Use announcement

I often write not because I have something that needs to be said, but to try to explain something to myself. If I get to a point where I think I understand an issue, I’ll make it public to see if the comments reflect my understanding, or to see if I need to have another [...] Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 31 2009 12:58 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, Rants & Musings, Certification, standards, EHR, meaningful use

How measuring Brittan can improve your EHR success

So, last night I am watching NOVA. The episode discussed fractal geometry and aired the same time as the Viking Bears game. Admittedly, not a typical Y chromosome choice, but interesting none-the-less. A fractal is a fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced...

Published Tue, Dec 29 2009 3:25 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, planning, consulting, EHR, electronic health record, healthcare

What is wrong with the ONC’s 2010 budget?

Some comments I wrote to ahier.blogspot.com’s posting of the ONC’s 2010 budget. Their mission, “ONC leads, coordinates, and stimulates public and private sector activities that promote the development, adoption, and use of health information technologies to achieve a healthier Nation”...

Published Mon, Dec 28 2009 7:27 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Certification, meaningful use, NHIN, Interoperability

An idea for improving Patient Relationship Management

This won’t solve all of your problems, but it’s a good start–sort of like 1,000 lawyers on the bottom of the ocean. www.nophonetrees.com Who knows, perhaps your organization is included. Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 28 2009 4:43 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Rants & Musings, patient relationship management, PRM, CRM

EHR: Is your scope wrong? I bet it is.

The hand-written note, scrawled in the best penmanship of my nine-year-old daughter, lay next to the plate of sugar cookies and the warm glass of milk. It was eleven PM. Three kids lay in their sleeping bags, asleep on the floor of the play room—cameras ready to capture images of the annual intruder...

Published Sun, Dec 27 2009 4:18 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: informatics, Rants & Musings, EHR, Work Flows, change management

Does ego get in the way of making change an imperative?

My friends who have nicknamed me Dr. Knowledge or the Voice of Reason have seen me on those rare moments when the synapses were firing on all cylinders. There are others who have seen me in my less than knowledgeable moments. For instance. There was the time I took my three young children to the movies...

Published Mon, Dec 21 2009 3:15 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, Rants & Musings, consulting, EHR, healthcare

Should HIT make the Top 10 list for medical advances for 2009?

Below is a reply I made to a report that HIT was one of the top medical advances for 2009. It came from community.advanceweb.com. Great point. An advance requires movement. I do not think an 8% penetration with a 60% failure rate and high churn is the type of movement that would qualify. If anything...

Published Mon, Dec 21 2009 10:21 AM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, planning, standards, meaningful use, EMR, NHIN, rants and musings, Interoperability

EHR Thought Leadership Summit Slides

This presentation was delivered 12.10.09 in NJ. http://www.slideshare.net/paulroemer/em-rgemcy-medicine-event-121009-joint-ppt-final Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 12:26 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: consulting, EHR, electronic health record

What’s the ROI from Social Media for a hospital?

Did you know there’s a teaching hospital in the US whose web site gets 2,500,000 hits a month? Did you know that same hospital tracks how patients made the decision to use their services? Did you know that more than $2,400,000 dollars in fees came about as a direct result of the web site? I’d...

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 7:04 AM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: social media, patient relationship management, PRM

Now being carried by stanford.wellsphere.com

How cool is that? http://stanford.wellsphere.com/general-medicine-article/in-the-beginning-there-was-an-it-incentive/900843 Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 6:54 AM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Rants & Musings

Have you lost the social media turf war to your patients?

Remember as kids trying to see how many bumble bees you could catch in a jar before you panicked and they all got lose? You couldn’t get the top all the way on and all of a sudden dozens of bees exited the jar as you raced across the field of clover. That’s how patients [...] Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 17 2009 3:36 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: social media, Strategy, CEM, PRM, CRM

The impact of Moses on EHR

Does anyone remember how many of each type of animal God told Moses to put on the ark? Are you sure? For those who missed it, Noah built the Ark, Charlton Heston built the stone tablets. One word can make the difference between right and wrong, especially if the question is big enough. Who is asking...

Published Tue, Dec 15 2009 11:31 AM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, Rants & Musings, EHR, electronic health record

Why additional money may not be needed to solve your EHR problems

Have you ever done any sort of group problem solving exercise like Outward Bound to help you to think as a team? Suppose there was an exercise for healthcare and IT executives, whose goal was to get the executives to think about how to best deploy can EHR system. To do this they are given [...] Read...

Published Mon, Dec 14 2009 3:14 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: informatics, Strategy, Rants & Musings, planning, EHR, electronic health record

can you apply social media to Patient Relationship Management (PRM)

A consultant was on one side of the river; his client was on the other side. The client hollered, “How do I get to the other side?” The consultant thought for a moment and hollered back, “You are on the other side.”—don’t try this at home kids, we’re professionals. It goes without saying that rarely...

Published Sat, Dec 12 2009 4:00 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: social media, patient relationship management, PRM, rants and musings