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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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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. –Gore Vidal I'll suggest that you might find yourself thinking like Mr. Vidal.
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There is one constant to change management, and that is change. Simply put, the process of managing change never stands still, something is different every time. Some change is more easily digested than others, but always there is struggle and difficulty. Among other things, I should have learned...
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Back in the day, there was no incentive to standardize. Many organizations purchased best-of-breed and customized to their heart's content.
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Today, we are liberated from the confines of traditional computing forms. The days of PCs and laptops are over. Free at last!
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