May 2010 - EHR: How difficult without the correct strategy

I think there is plenty of merit to quit chasing Meaningful Use and get on with your business. http://healthsystemcio.com/2010/05/28/ten-catechisms-of-meaningful-use/ Paul M. Roemer Chief Imaginist, Healthcare IT Strategy 1475 Luna Drive, Downingtown, PA 19335 +1 (484) 885-6942 paulroemer@healthcareitstrategy...

I remember the first time I entered their home I was taken aback by the clutter. Spent and wet leaves and small branches were strewn across the floors and furniture. Black Hefty trash bags stood against the walls filled with last year’s leaves. Dozens of bright orange buckets from Home Depot sat beneath...

Sri Lanka has been in a twenty-six year civil war with the Tamil Tigers. NPR reported the leader of the Tigers was killed. Within a day, the Tamil Tigers’ web site posted a blurb stating that the leader was not killed—a la Monty Python—“I’m not dead yet.” I’ll be brief. The bad guys. These bad guys live...

Last night I was speaking with a woman at a gathering of graduates from my high school. She got into the subject of reading glasses and then commented that she first learned she needed regular glasses since the age of four. As she was not wearing glasses, I asked her if she’d had Lasik. No, [...] Read...

I had piloted the Piper Cub for seven hours across endless miles of ocean. The crash of my small plane left me alone on the uninhabited treeless atoll somewhere in the south Pacific. I would have been sunburned badly if not for the shade cast by the thirty-foot tall New Jersey hospital’s billboard heralding...

The link below takes you to a post written by Software Advice’s Chris Thorman regarding the market share for inpatient and outpatient EHRs. It is designed to be a collaborative piece, and Chris is asking for feedback and correction. I found it to be a well-written and helpful piece, perhaps you...

As a parent I’ve learned there are two types of tasks–those my children won’t do the first time I ask them, and those they won’t do no matter how many times I ask them. Here’s the segue. Let’s agree for the moment that workflows can be parsed into two groups—Easily Repeatable Processes (ERPs) and Barely...

What is your organization’s mission, your vision, your goal? Can you articulate it? If yes, write it below in the space provided. Okay. Why do you have a mission statement? Is its purpose merely website parsley, or is it actionable? What does it tell you to do? Is it something to which all of your employees...