Comments on: Monday Morning Update 12/15/08

By: Santa 2

Santa 2 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:31:04 +0000

Tom Skelton and Rich Goldberg did not host any event in Raleigh ! Gotta love how a rumors get started.. someone must be bored …

By: HCV

HCV — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:03:05 +0000

For anyone that knows Ben, knows he is a great leader and brilliant guy. He is gone to the detriment of Allscripts. He was one of the best people there. Ben is a brilliant guy that a lot of people liked working for.

By: jesran

jesran — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:39:33 +0000

‘Everybody likes to weigh in on the “why doctors won’t use EMRs” issue, so here is my simplistic interpretation. …’

‘There is no industry … none … where someone with the education and time value of a physician is expected to peck on a computer, especially in front of a client who’s only going to get seven minutes of time (I’ve never seen a CIO typing meeting minutes into a PC, yet they’re often the ones beefing about computer-avoiding doctors). There are no small business owners…’

Fact1: Data is best collected closest to it’s source.
Fact2: Physicians are many times directly connected to patients.
Fact3: Other clinicians are willing to place themselves next to patients and extract data without complaint; RNs, NPs, PAs, etc.

Also, let me point out that business and medical practices are not equal so to compare them as you do is not correct. In other words, if data collection is what is required to oblige “do no harm” in the case of physicians or “holistic care” in the case of nurses, then data collection is what should be done. It is an ethical question, not a business question. You may be correct that keyboarding is a waste of time, but not because CIO’s and small businessmen don’t do it. Business-people have a different ethical framework you need to be reminded.

Also, is it possible that if the education and time value for someone is too high for the task at hand then it would create a disincentive to do the right thing?

Or possibly you think that aggregate patient data is unimportant.

By: MACman

MACman — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:38:51 +0000

As an urban community hospital CIO, I recently acquired a MAC to attach to our hospital network because: a) Some of my staff as well as medical staff members are MAC users at home. They periodically experience technical issues when they access the hospital’s network from remote locations and I wanted to be able to replicate and resolve those problems; b) An oncology surgeon friend of mine who practices elsewhere and is a MAC user at home experienced frustration at his hospital’s IT department’s lack of MAC knowledge, so in the spirit of customer service I wanted to provide solutions to those who ask; c) I am a MAC lover — having used one for years in an earlier life as a hospital IT consultant — and was happy to find any excuse to install one at the hospital.

By: SQL_Goddess

SQL_Goddess — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:59:53 +0000

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