January 2010 - EHR: How difficult without the correct strategy

What are the risks of HIT and EHR?

It is refreshing to know that the voices I am hearing need not be my own. When I try to summarize the issues for my own edification, I always circle back to the same few issues. • No single person is both responsible and in authority regarding HIT and EHR. Provider-world pauses with each new pronouncement...

Published Fri, Jan 29 2010 7:40 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: HIT, Strategy, Rants & Musings, planning, consulting, EHR, meaningful use

What are the success factors for EHR?

I just arrived in-country—I was in Wisconsin for two weeks. I’ve been to forty-seven states, and Wisconsin has to be one of the friendliest. Anyway, let us begin. Not long after graduating with an MBA from Vanderbilt, I returned to Vandy to interview job candidates. With me, was my adult supervisor,...

Published Fri, Jan 29 2010 1:54 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, Rants & Musings, planning, consulting, EHR, meaningful use, Work Flows, change management

What is the value of perfection?

Here’s another great post by another great person I met online, Maryanne Colter, of MMColter Ltd. She’s on Twitter @mmcolter. What I love about this post is her emphasis on hitting a target worth hitting. Aim for the moon on quality or defects and you may hit it. Perfect ought not be a stretch...

Published Fri, Jan 29 2010 12:39 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, Rants & Musings, planning, Health 2.0, quality

How Can Healthcare Technologies Help Revive Healthcare?

The following well-delivered blog was written by Matthew Browning RN, MSN, APRN is CEO of YourNurseIsOn.com. I hope you find it as insightful as I did. Thank you Matthew for contributing. As Paul has so poignantly illustrated in his recent articles on EHRs, Meaningful Use, CPOE, etc., the reality and...

Published Thu, Jan 28 2010 12:34 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: healthcare 2.0, healthcare

My New PowerPoint deck just posted on SlideShare: Should you meet meaningful use

http://www.slideshare.net/paulroemer/should-you-meet-meaningful-use Read More...

Published Wed, Jan 27 2010 7:32 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Rants & Musings, meaningful use

My 1st post on HealthsystemCIO.com

The following is my first guest post on Anthony Guerra’s new site, HealthsystemCIO.com. If you haven’t begun the process of selecting and implementing an EHR, Meaningful Use may not be something with which to concern yourself. The reason, you probably will not be done in time to collect the incentive...

Published Wed, Jan 27 2010 3:22 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, Rants & Musings, reform, meaningful use, healthcare

How will reform impact Payors?

I have developed quite a fondness for children’s books, particularly those with a well disguised allegory. Long favorites of mine include the short stories, Uncle Remus, written by Joel Chandler Harris. Br’er Rabbit (“Brother Rabbit”) is the main character in each of the stories, a...

Published Wed, Jan 27 2010 12:03 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Rants & Musings, reform, payors, healthcare

What’s the probability around Meaningful Use?

Below is a reply I wrote to a post on MU in Healthcare IT News What’s the probability, that you complete the Stage 1 Meaningful Use requirements? What’s the probability, after doing your best to meet the Stage 1 requirements that you actually pass the audit? What’s the probability you’ll...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2010 10:48 AM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, Rants & Musings, EHR, meaningful use, healthcare

May I have receipt for my ERH in case I return it?

The hospital we use just dedicated a new wing. For months the job site was a maze of people, duct, and tools. It cost $145 million. There’s a plaque displaying the name of the architect, the contractor, the mayor, and the rest of the adults who made it happen. While it was being built there [...] Read...

Published Sat, Jan 23 2010 3:13 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

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

Dr. Blumberg’s blog post

Well, not only did they post my commentary, it’s receiving several “thumbs up”. Maybe there is something behind what we’ve been discussing. http://healthit.hhs.gov/blog/onc/index.php/2009/12/30/a-defining-moment-for-meaningful-use/comment-page-1/#comment-458 Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 22 2010 1:54 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Rants & Musings

My comments to Dr. Blumenthal’s Blog

It says they are awaiting moderation–they could be waiting a long time. Here they are. I think hospitals need to give a lot of thought to whether it’s in their best interest to even try to meet MU. Those who haven’t begin EHR and CPOE will be hard pressed to benefit. There is more unknown...

Published Thu, Jan 21 2010 4:55 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, Rants & Musings, Who's Running the Show?, EHR, meaningful use

Should you consider skipping Meaningful Use?

I am going through an analysis for my client, a hospital chain who has already installed EHR and CPOE to see if they should change their strategic direction to get the ARRA money, or continue along their original course. It does not have to be an either or decision. Their options are not do go for [...

Published Wed, Jan 20 2010 10:30 AM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, EHR, reform, meaningful use

Thank you for reading and commenting

Curious to hear your thoughts as to what impact the election of Senator-Elect Brown will have on the current healthcare legislation? Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 19 2010 10:12 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: reform

The doctors’ thoughts on social media are probably correct « Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

The doctors’ thoughts on social media are probably correct Posted by Paul Roemer on January 18, 2010 Some more thoughts on the post on KevinMD’s site stemming from Dr. Gwenn’s blog. Justifiable on-line road rage. I run a consulting firm. You know what? I hate it—running the firm...

Published Mon, Jan 18 2010 9:38 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Rants & Musings

The doctors’ thoughts on social media are probably correct

Some more thoughts on the post on KevinMD’s site stemming from Dr. Gwenn’s blog. Justifiable on-line road rage. I run a consulting firm. You know what? I hate it—running the firm, that is. The consulting is great fun. I am guessing that being a physician is a lot like that. Very few of you...

Published Mon, Jan 18 2010 9:21 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: social media, Rants & Musings, healthcare 2.0, healthcare