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Call it a health information network, a regional health information organization or a health information exchange—the concept of exchanging health records has been around for more than a decade. Unfortunately, by any name, it hasn't become mainstream, and records-exchange challenges persist.
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Hardly a day passes without a conversation about innovation.
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Every now and then, I find it useful to sit back, relax a bit and ponder what awaits us as health information technology leaders. If you believe the "relax" part or the "now and then" part, you completely missed my cynicism and semi-sarcasm. I find myself thinking about this all too often.
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I was a pretty good student in high school and generally brought home a fine report card. When I showed my report card to my grandfather, he would ask, "Well, what did you learn?"
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"Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it."—UnknownI remember the first time I heard someone use Thomas Paine’s quote "Lead, follow or get out of the way."
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Information technology is now indispensable to the success of your organization. Market leaders are those who best take data and turn it into actionable and strategic information. How well data is harvested and information managed will define winners and losers.
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Every hospital information technology manager I meet faces the same recruitment issues I do.
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I'm sure that many of you are just like me: I have many meetings each week looking at the overall operations of our organization.
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There is nothing more important in my role as CIO than ensuring that our clinicians have the right information to treat their patients when they need it.
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The preliminary rule spelling out the proposed meaningful-use Stage 2 measures was released in March. The content was as expected, and I was delighted to see that the rule retained the concept of core and optional menu set measures.
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