We probably won't know until late January the full-year numbers for 2012 on the EHR incentive payment program, but with three quarters of the year reporting, 2012 already is shaping up to be a banner year in health information technology.
Here's what I mean.
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What am I thankful for today?
The usual stuff. A loving family. My faith and my church home. Good health. An interesting job where I can put my skills to good use.
And—as a professional skeptic, this is weird for me to say—I'm also grateful for our government, or at least some aspects of it.
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I have been watching the unpeeling onion that is the scandal involving some of our top military and intelligence leaders with jaw-dropping wonder.
And in keeping, the other night I watched the DVD of the film adaptation of Graham Greene's romantic tragedy "The End of the Affair," with the always excellent Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore.
I'm a huge Graham Greene fan, for a couple of reasons.
For one thing, Greene and I both lived and worked in Sierra Leone—he as a spy in the 1930s and again during World War II and me as a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1970s.
For another thing, Greene is a master storyteller, with piercing insight into the emotional lives of his characters. The liaison in "The End of the Affair" was between the wife of a high-ranking government official and the official's friend, a relative unknown. It is something of a mirror image of what we have now, where the affair is between a high-ranking official and a friend, who is the wife of an unknown.
In both stories, the truth comes out and a lot of damage is done.
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Last month, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives celebrated its 20th Fall CIO Forum "back home" where the first one was held, the Coachella Valley in the Southern California desert.
One major bit of post-convention news for CHIME was that there will be a change at the top. Perennially cheerful CHIME President and CEO Rich Correll is to become the new chief operating officer of the 1,400-member organization once the search for a new president and CEO is completed—expected by March.
Correll has headed the organization since its founding. "CEO" was added to "president" in his title in 2005. I've had the good fortune to have attended the past two CHIME fall events, which is the larger of its two semi-annual gatherings, and from personal experience I know Rich and his crew put on a solid, tightly run show with the right balance of social and educational programs. He'll continue heading the day-to-day operations of the organization going forward.
I had a chance to talk this week with Drexel DeFord, board chairman of CHIME this year and CIO of the multihospital Steward Health Care System, Boston.
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I had an opportunity last week to speak with a number of folks caught in the middle of dealing with Hurricane Sandy.
Not to go all Nietzsche on you, but what doesn't kill you at least gives you the opportunity to take some pride in being resilient—and maybe, if you're into healthcare IT, to figure out whether your disaster plan was adequate, and if not, how to do things better next time. And, oh yes, when facing disaster, be sure to keep a couple of reams of paper and a few old folks on hand.
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