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HIStalk Interviews Mike Cannavo (1 comments)
I love this interview! Having implemented (successfully) a PACS system at a large, multi-facility hospital in 2003, I agree with everything Mike has to say. I also really appreciate his irreverent attitude! I couldn’t argee with him more about the [...]
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EHR Geek
2010-03-17 19:28:59
HIMSS10: Party Like It’s 1999 (19 comments)
HIMSS in many ways reminds me of the opening of the summer Olympics in China. It is a spectacle intended for the largest vendors to show their power and might with over the top booths, expansive exhibit floor square footage, extravagant entertainme [...]
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Paraclete
2010-03-17 03:33:00
Monday Morning Update 3/15/10 (4 comments)
The Meaningful Yoose lyrics can be found at http://informatimusicology.blogspot.com/2010/03/meaningful-yoose-rap.html [...]
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Scott
2010-03-16 14:10:05
HITlaw 3/9/10 (18 comments)
A heartfelt thank you to all who appreciated my work on this HITlaw posting.

To “Always Curious” – depends on the NCA. If it was tailored for development only then arguably ok to move to finance, but if it was a straight “no competitors” then not [...]

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HITlaw – Bill O’Toole
2010-03-12 16:24:30
News 3/12/10 (4 comments)
Re: McKesson report. The author of the report states “this channel check is not inconsistent with other checks we have made on MCK and its HCIT products.” The client in the report indicated that its HERM implementation process started more than a ye [...]
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McMessy
2010-03-12 08:37:48
News 3/10/10 (3 comments)
Have you heard anything about MedPlus Chartmaxx being bought by a group in OH? [...]
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spunky
2010-03-10 18:14:19
Monday Morning Update 3/8/10 (2 comments)
I read that March 7 – March 13 is Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW)

Let’s hope the HIMSS EHRVA vendors remember this as they peddle their product(s) to hospitals and physician practices. They should put the Patient first and remove the gag clau [...]

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HIMSS Insider
2010-03-08 16:21:45
Merge Healthcare To Acquire AMICAS (4 comments)
Re: Pat Avatar’s comment:

“Enough of Tullman, Bush, the government appointees who are elevated only by title and NOT BY PROGRESS, Halamka, and the usual short list. Why not have someone meet the challenge of recognizing the worker-bees – the one [...]

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BlueDogSpirit
2010-03-08 00:16:33
News 3/5/10 (9 comments)
“The VA and DoD disconnect their shared EMR connectivity after after data errors are discovered”

One would have thought VA would have been especially cautious about the types of errors that occurred.

Recall “IT Vulnerabilities Highlighted by [...]

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MIMD
2010-03-06 16:32:58
HIStalk Interviews Charlie Harp (2 comments)
“with our focus being primarily — I always use the term “plumbers” of healthcare information.”

Just what medical care needs, plumbers!!

If the medical care profession and medical records needs plumbers, the HIT industry needs an enema. [...]

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thejudge
2010-03-06 11:32:38
From HIMSS 3/3/10 (6 comments)
Thanks for all the updates – I felt like I was there! :-)

Our organization exhibited (like we do every year) – perhaps I’ll be able to get one of our attendees to read your write-ups so we can be sure we’re using our time/space wisely! [...]

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Left Behind in Ohio
2010-03-04 12:39:35
From HIMSS 3/2/10 (Part 2) (13 comments)
Inga – Please tell me…Was Judy wearing Birkenstocks? [...]
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Samantha Brown
2010-03-03 20:21:01
Monday Morning Update 3/1/10 (8 comments)
I [Sen. Grassley] have been surprised by the lack of discussion about patient safety concerns … they [clinicians] tried raising their concerns to hospital administrators and/or to the HIT vendors, but told me their concerns were often ignored or di [...]
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Anonymous
2010-03-02 22:03:34
From HIMSS 3/2/10 (3 comments)
Thanks to Mr. HIStalk and Ms. HERtalk for the opportunity to perform the world premier of the Meaningful Yoose Rap at the HIStalk Reception! It was great fun… Special thanks to the Encore folks – professional and pleasant sound folks made the Rap [...]
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Dr. HITECH
2010-03-02 15:05:17
From HIMSS 3/1/10 (1 comments)
Thanks for everyone who attended the HIStalk reception. It was an honor to co-sponsor the event. I certainly agree with Mr. H on two accounts. It was great to see Judy (and Carl) at the event, and it could not have been pulled off withouth Amy Glas [...]
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Gregg at Encore
2010-03-02 01:35:45
From HIMSS 2/28/10 (4 comments)
Does it seem like the give-away ‘bling’ from the vendors is alot less sparkley this year? Received a tweet the Sprint booth was giving a ‘free phone’ (reported to be blackberry) to attendees with ‘CIO in the title of their badge. Any votes for the [...]
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vsm
2010-03-01 22:21:38
HCIT from the Investor’s Chair 2/26/10 (7 comments)
Ben: I remember way back when you were a HCIT analyst, when MDRX and QSII were $80 million companies. It’s been quite some time since we’ve had large deals in this space, the last being IDX. Seems to me that the big boys (ie, IBM, Oracle, MSFT, GE, [...]
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adam
2010-02-27 13:24:29
News 2/26/10 (10 comments)
The plan by the Standards Committee serves the HIT vendors well: “The HIT Standards Committee recommends that federal certification criteria for EMRs be flexible and not lock into specific requirements that could become outdated. ”

HIMSS BOD membe [...]

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thejudge
2010-02-26 17:49:27
HIStalk Interviews Trey Lauderdale (3 comments)
There are reports that the Feds are sending HIT moles to Atlanta to observe how government money is being spent. [...]
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Suzie, RN
2010-02-26 12:47:07
News 2/24/10 (8 comments)
Too late on the FDA regulating EMR’s as medical devices. They already have that authority. They testified today at the HIT policy committee/certification work group meeting. According to their representative, they choose not to enforce it.

Whether [...]

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Hashslingingslasher
2010-02-25 21:02:43
Readers Write 2/24/10 (7 comments)
I agree with Mike Cannavo’s comments and would venture to take it a step further. Our ITS Department has taken responsibility for coordinating the selection and implementation activities of medical devices as well. We’ve agreed to expand our role i [...]
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Gotham City CIO
2010-02-25 15:49:18
Readers Write 2/15/10 (13 comments)
Al — many/most of the EHR products offer the ability for free text entry for the elements of the encounter that require them… some offer integrations to Dragon for real-time speech… Could it be that the ‘Pulmonoligist’ just has little to no int [...]
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Patient Reporter
2010-02-24 17:07:45
HIStalk Interviews John Santmann (3 comments)
Most ED’s do not staff collections after hours – there is a real ROI with self-service kiosk 1st party collections on the way out….. [...]
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Patrick
2010-02-24 11:13:11
HIStalk Interviews Kipp Lassetter and Robert Connely (3 comments)
Well, obviously there is spin from both the inverview and the Ross comment, from folks with table stakes in the same game…

www.mirthcorp.com/…/meaningful-use-deployed-redwood-mednet

Suffice it to say that the real value in the dialogue come [...]

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Carl
2010-02-22 15:23:02
HIStalk Interviews Tom Yackel (9 comments)
Many thanks for the links Tom. [...]
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blah
2010-02-22 08:37:59
Monday Morning Update 2/22/10 (2 comments)
I have an idea for a HIMSS Roundtable Discussion that may be useful to engage all of the stakeholders for a change, especially the ones we know are there but who rarely speak up. So then, just to make things a little more stimulating then the usual b [...]
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BusyBee
2010-02-22 01:12:41
HIStalk Interviews Cameron Powell (1 comments)
Now that you have FDA approval, wouldn’t you to want to “upgrade” and get CCHIT certified too? Don’t you want your piece of the ARRA pie? [...]
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BlueDogSpirit
2010-02-20 19:55:25
News 2/19/10 (3 comments)
Joy Pritts has been a contractor for HIMSS.org. She was hired as a Privacy expert.

HHS might as well change their name to HIMSS HHS, because now there are so many HIMSS people in government, including current HIMSS Board Member Liz Johnson of Tene [...]

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HIMSS Insider
2010-02-19 12:09:04
HIStalk Interviews Phyllis Gotlib (1 comments)
Were patients given opportunity for informed consent in those alpha and beta tests? If not why not? [...]
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Im-patient
2010-02-17 21:45:37
News 2/17/10 (5 comments)
RE: Globes…Yes, and Reploge would have been happy to give a tour of the globe factory as a get-away from the just awful HIMSS experience you described in Chicago…along the way you could have stopped into a couple burger and dog dives on Roosevelt [...]
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CDiff
2010-02-17 10:35:27

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