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Healthcare IT meets Ben & Jerry’s

The idea for this blog came about after reading a PowerPoint presentation by Doctor Alberto Borges. All mistakes can be attributed to me. When one is witness to the number of external influencers trying to shape policy on healthcare, reform, and healthcare IT, the best one can hope for is that hidden...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2011 4:13 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: PMO, Strategy, Rants & Musings, planning, General HIT, meaningful use, EMR, Hospital, incentive payments, Who's Running the Show?, Vendors-What's not to like?

EHR: Men Behaving Badly

When I lived in Colorado my friend and I decided that instead of running during our lunch break we would sit in on an aerobics class. Our plan was to hide away in the back of the class, watch the ladies, and then head back to the office. No sweat—literally, that was also part of [...] Read More...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2011 10:51 AM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

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

EHR: Managing the changes to your organization

I reside where those who refuse to drink the Kool Aid reside. For those who haven’t been there, it’s a small space where only those who place principle over fees dare to tread. Where to begin? How to build your team? (Those who wish to throw cabbages should move closer to the front of the [...] Read...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2011 8:54 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: PMO, Strategy, planning, Certification, standards, EHR, meaningful use, Hospital, Who's Running the Show?

What if there was no Meaningful Use?

On April 16, 1912 there was an article in the Daily Register in Anytown, Nebraska titled “Local Man Drowns.” The article went on to note that a local man was lost at sea. I paused for a moment trying to recall from my high school geography class the name of the ocean bordering Nebraska—there is [......

Published Mon, May 05 2011 8:42 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, Rants & Musings, planning, EHR, meaningful use, business model, Hospital, ICD-10, Who's Running the Show?

Healthcare IT: A premonition

As I walked through the offices of one of my clients last week I kept passing errant lines of code that had fallen to the floor throughout the hospital. Each time I passed one I retrieved it and dropped it in a folder. Eating lunch in the cafeteria, I laid the lines of code in [...] Read More...

Published Mon, May 05 2011 12:35 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, planning, consulting, EHR, meaningful use, ACOs, Who's Running the Show?

Should you meet Meaningful Use-a PowerPoint

Here is the presentation on whether one should meet Meaningful Use I am giving in May at New England’s HFMA conference. Please let me know what you think. http://ow.ly/4Joet Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2011 8:54 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, planning, EHR, meaningful use, Who's Running the Show?

“Our Lady of Perpetual Implementations”

“There is no use trying,” said Alice; “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” There are a number of...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2011 12:50 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, planning, Certification, EHR, meaningful use, Hospital, Who's Running the Show?

HIT: The Change Keeps Changing

Hello to those whom I’ve yet to meet. This is rather long, so you may wish to grab a sandwich. I write to share a few thoughts. I reside in the small place where those who refuse to drink the Kool Aid reside. For those who haven’t been there, it’s where those who place principle [...] Read More...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2011 7:37 AM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, Rants & Musings, planning, Certification, EHR, meaningful use, NHIN, Interoperability, Hospital, Who's Running the Show?

The Physics of EHR

To read and complete this post you may use the following tools; graph paper, compass, protractor, slide ruler, a number two pencil, and a bag of Gummy Bears—from which to snack. The following problem was on the final exam in my eleventh grade physics class. Let us give this a shot and then see if [....

Published Mon, Jan 01 2011 8:08 AM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

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

Meaningful Use is a binary contest—you make it or you don’t

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 will probably not be done in time to collect the incentive money. How can that be stated with such assurance? If you haven’t begun, there may be no...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2011 8:04 AM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Rants & Musings, planning, EHR, meaningful use, Hospital

EHR: Children of the Corn

Not in the Stephen King way. During the late fall, my middle school friends and I would play among the withered corn stalks; capture the flag, building forts, and on occasion being more adventuresome. On those more adventuresome occasions the adventure included matches. It went something like this. We...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2010 12:03 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

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

What can the ONC learn from the 80% of hospitals who are not on board with EHR?

The ONC’s State of the Union Message will be delivered this week over a two-day period. Rather than attend, I have decided to wait until the operatic version of the meeting is available on YouTube. Mind you, I am convinced of the good intentions of their efforts, but to write I am skeptical of their...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2010 2:54 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

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

Can you blame providers if they fail Meaningful Use?

I don’t wake up each day planning to be at odds with ninety-eight percent—I’m probably being overly generous assuming two percent of the people are as jaded as me—of the HIT community, maybe I just come by it naturally. The first time I heard of RECs (regional extension centers) the first thing that...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2010 8:05 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: PMO, Rants & Musings, planning, EHR, meaningful use

Will the ARRA money be worth the effort?

According to the just released McKinsey study, the time has come for healthcare providers to set up a lemonade stand. Why? Because their findings indicate that the incentive money available to doctors may only offset about twenty percent of the costs of implementing EHR. You can read their analysis here...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2010 6:02 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, Rants & Musings, planning, EHR, meaningful use, ARRA, healthcare 2.0

July is “take your EHR strategy to lunch month”

Several have written suggesting I toss my hat into the ring to serve as the EHR Strategy wonk or czar. I was in the process of thinking it through when I was awakened from my fuegue state by a loud noise–my ego crashing to the floor. Some have suggested that a camel is a horse [...] Read More...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2010 8:40 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Rants & Musings, planning, Certification, EHR, meaningful use, change management, business model

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