This is a good video from the Wall Street Journal that talks about this very same issue with everyone building the “better mousetrap”. Specifically mentioned here are a couple of agencies and the FDA is one of them. Now this is not easy and sometimes folks just grab programmers and start...
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I do have to say that I agree with him on this as with researching and posting on this blog every day, I see all the announcements and so forth. I get tired and confused at times with what certain vendors are offering. He has some ground to stand on here with some past experience since Massachusetts...
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The goal is from the US CTO is reduce the number of federal data centers by 40% by 2015 and the federal government, unlike private industry has been increasing their server stock pile. Here we come back to the IT Illiterate Senate and I’m sure another bill will be around again to allow data centers...
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This is pretty amazing as not too long ago we all read about the desperate conditions at Grady Hospital. Bar code scanners were brought in that ended medication errors and lot of robots with an updated pharmacy warehouse. They had to do it themselves as you can see from the link below, other...
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So what it the world is an “Algo Man”? For that matter it could be a woman too but these are the folks with the brains that know how to put technology to work. Brokers on Wall Street don’t hardly ever go to a heavy meeting without their “algo man” as they realize some of the details and...
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Here’s a quote from the press release that says it all and the big decisions these days for CIOs are how many of these do we need and how many can we afford? There are tons of audit services out there like this and the software does what it says it will do, but expect soon a new layer that will...
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In California hospitals need to retrofitted to meet earthquake standards by the years 2013 and 1015 and most surveyed felt they were not going to be able to meet the deadline, which could in time force more closures. In Pennsylvania more hospitals are sliding into the red, big jump of over 20%...
Just how much is Health IT going to help with reform, well it is already helping, but organization and implementation is the key. One big problem, low tech literacy stated in the video. About 30% of hospitals are not using electronic medical records and it is a long term commitment, no immediate...
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This basically is stating that further aggregation is needed for coordination and better management, aka Business Intelligence. It will also open the doors it states for the public to be aware of what is happening and changing. There’s quite a list of projects that have been halted below, most...
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Well so much for doing a good job it appears as the efforts don’t appear to have any impact. Financial pressures continue and myself I really question asking hospitals for concessions, it’s not the hospitals who have the big funds and reserve funds, it’s the insurance companies and secondary the...
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How important is software, enough to where 4 healthcare clinics are facing being closed as a result. Cerner, a major healthcare software provider is cited here as the program in place. There is no perfect software solution to keep everyone happy, as seen in the news of late with the VA taking...
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