Healthcare IT Podcast Show 203 - ARRA and “Meaningful Use”

As I said on the last show, sure enough the Kuskokwim River break up here in Bethel, Alaska brought around some great fishing and hunting, and it has been a busy project season at work as well.  The best part is the sunset at 1:00am, with the perpetual dusk and dawn, there is always enough light outside to play by.  It is extremely nice to get off work at 6:00pm and still have hours of daylight to play.

Andrew Hamons and his King Salmon from the Kuskokwim River in Bethel, Alaska

Before I get down to business about today’s podcast, I do have to show off a picture of my son and his King Salmon from the Kuskokwim River.

On todays show, I talk about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and how we can expect to see it impact our industry.  Don’t worry, I keep it short…less than 10 minutes even with bumper music.

In the podcast, I talk about a presentation provided by the working group.  A link to the Meaningful Use Presentation can be found here.

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This post was written by Spencer on July 3, 2009

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Show 202 - Geography vs. Generational Differences

Well, the Kuskokwim River is starting to break up here in Bethel, Alaska…the geese and ducks are here for the summer, and we are getting our sunset around 11:30pm.  I knew I needed to get a podcast out soon, because I know it will be tough as soon as the salmon runs start.

On this show, I talk about whether some of the differences that we see in our different employees is really “generational”, or are some of the differences “geographical”. It’s a little different take on the typical discussions about the generational differences found in our employees and the U.S. workforce in general.

I also have to throw out a thank you to some of my classmates at CSU Global.  It isn’t a paid ad, but I do have to say that I am enjoying my online classes at CSU Global, so if you want to get some quality classes in without paying the huge fees associated with others schools like University of Phoenix, you may want to take a look.

As always, I have links to the technology news that I talk about in the podcast. In this segment, we talk about these items in the news:

Siemens Medical Malvern, PA facility raided by the Pentagon Criminal Investigation Unit.

United States Electrical Grid Penetrated by Spies - China and Russia use Malware to get into the U.S. power grid.

Domestic Terrorism in the U.S. - Fiber Optic Cuts in California cut 911 and other services.

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Spencer

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This post was written by Spencer on May 7, 2009

Healthcare IT Podcast - Show 201 - Who’s it gonna be for HHS Secretary?

On this podcast, I talk about who will be selected as the nominee for the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary now that Senator Dascle has withdrawn from the process. If you listen to this show, then you are probably watching this selection as closely as I am. This whole show is dedicated to the “short list” of candidates as I see it, along with the people at ADVANCE for Health Information Executives.

On a different note, Coryee and I made it to Bethel, Alaska and we have finally gotten setup at home with all of our things and all of my recording equipment. Things have been a bit tough getting everything ready to go, so I am cheating on this week’s podcast.

Normally, I do a podcast ever two weeks for this website as well as a monthly podcast for the magazine ADVANCE For Health Information Executives. This week, I am putting my podcast for ADVANCE here on this website. If you have not visited my other podcast, you can find it on the ADVANCE editorial page.

For the podcast, I am talking about those on the short list (not the short bus). Those people are:

Governor Phil Bredesen, (D) Tennessee

Governor Charlie Crist, (R) Florida

Governor Jennifer Granholm,(D) Michigan

Governor Ed Rendell, (D) Pennsylvania

Governor Kathleen Sebelius, (D) Kansas

Senator Ron Wyden, (D) Oregon

Howard Dean (I was unable to find an “official” website for Mr. Dean, but I did find this site).

Newt Gingrich

 
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Show 121 - Express Scripts Gets an Extortion Letter

On today’s show, I go through our typical overview of some of the most pressing stories that have the potential to affect what is happening in the world of healthcare IT, and I talk a bit about what recently happened to Express Scripts and the attempt to extort money from the company as their patient data is potentially held hostage.

 
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Articles referenced during the podcast:

Healthcare IT News and their take on the Express Scripts extortion attempt

WPA hacked

Massive web hack

FCC approves Verizon’s acquisition of Alltel

Finally, when you listen to the podcast you will find that my wife Coryee and I are about to embark on a new adventure in Bethel, Alaska where we will be working for the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation.  Also, the ending music for the podcast is provided courtesy of Kate MacLeod, a wonderful artist out of Utah.  If you like her music, you can find more of it at her website at www.katemacleod.com.

Since we will be moving to Alaska over the next couple of months, I am not sure when I will have the next podcast online. I promise to make it available as soon as I possibly can. I will be checking emails and managing posts to this blog from my laptop, so please keep in touch! I can’t wait to share some pictures of what we are going to be experiencing in Alaska.

Thank you for listening.

Spencer Hamons

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This post was written by Spencer on November 9, 2008

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Show 120 - A talk with Nuance’s Keith Belton

On today’s show, I talk about alignment of IT initiatives and your organization’s long-term strategic plan and short-term tactical goals.

I also have a talk with Nuance Communication’s Keith Belton about Nuance’s new Dragon Medical product and where Keith feels that speech recognition will continue to be in the future of healthcare IT.

As always, I welcome your comments either here on the blog, or by emailing me directly at spencer@itpodcast.org. If you would like to email Keith, you can reach him at Keith.Belton@Nuance.com. For more information about Dragon Medical, you can click here and a new window will open and you will be taken to their page.

 
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This week, I did not have any news because the show was getting a little long.

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The next podcast will be available on November 1, 2008.

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Show 119 - A talk with Practice Partner’s Chad Hendricks

Chad Hendricks, a part of the Practice Partner, Paragon and McKesson family comes on today’s show to talk about how Practice Partner and Paragon want to change how hospital’s and providers interact.

As always, I welcome your comments either here on the blog, or by emailing me directly at spencer@itpodcast.org. If you would like to email Chad, you can reach him at Chad.Hendricks@McKesson.com. For more information about Practice Partner, you can click here and a new window will open and you will be taken to their page.

 
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The articles that I reference in the podcast are linked below:

GDS International Puts on Excellent CIO Summit for Healthcare

Hacking Implantable Defibrillators

Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! Mail account hacked

12,000 Laptops Lost Every Day in U.S. Airports

I thank you for listening to this podcast, and as always I welcome your comments either directly to this blog (you can do this by clicking on the title of this post and adding your comments on the new page)…or you can email me directly at spencer@itpodcast.org.The next podcast will be available on October 4, 2008

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Show 118 - Environmentally Sound IT with a Realistic ROI

In this week’s podcast I want to talk about how to be environmentally conscious in your IT operations, without spending a million dollars, and while making good business sense.

As always, I welcome your comments either here on the blog, or by emailing me directly at spencer@itpodcast.org.

 
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The articles that I reference in the podcast are linked below:

IEEE ratifies 802.11r standard to enhance VoIP over Wi-Fi handoffs

 

Comcast puts the screws to customers downloading over 250GB per month

Google Chrome?

I thank you for listening to this podcast, and as always I welcome your comments either directly to this blog…or you can email me directly at spencer@itpodcast.org.The next podcast will be available on September 20, 2008

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This post was written by Spencer on September 6, 2008

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Healthcare IT Podcast - Ep 117 - So You are Too Busy for Data

In this week’s podcast, in addition to our normal news topics, we discuss what I call DRIP (Data Rich and Information Poor), Data Analysis and we also touch on the topic of disaster recovery and business continuity.

As always, I welcome your comments either here on the blog, or by emailing me directly at spencer@itpodcast.org.

 
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The articles that I reference in the podcast are linked below:

Consumer off-site data store LinkUp fails

19 Hour Laptop

You never know what may show up in those search engine cached pages

I thank you for listening to this podcast, and as always I welcome your comments either directly to this blog…or you can email me directly at spencer@itpodcast.org.The next podcast will be available on September 6, 2008

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Healthcare IT Podcast - Episode 116 - Privacy vs. Geography

In this week’s podcast, we get back to our standard format with some interesting news articles that were out over the past week, and I talk specifically about the allegations the China has been forcing hotels to install Internet eavesdropping equipment in preparation for the Olympics.

As always, I welcome your comments either here on the blog, or by emailing me directly at spencer@itpodcast.org.

 
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The articles that I reference in the podcast are linked below:

FCC finds that Comcast cannot limit peer-to-peer traffic on its network

VMware annouces that ESXi Hypervisor is now free

Alfresco announces open source Microsoft SharePoint Competetor

8 Reasons why a developer would NEVER want to be CIO

China accused of installing Internet eavesdropping devices for Olympics

I thank you for listening to this podcast, and as always I welcome your comments either directly to this blog…or you can email me directly at spencer@itpodcast.org.

The next podcast will be available on August 16, 2008

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Healthcare IT Podcast - Episode 115 - Keeping the CIO Position Relevant continued

This week’s podcast is short and sweet, pretty much because I didn’t do my typical research that I do for my news section.  But hey, it was summer and we just had our biggest hospital foundation fundraiser of the year on July 18th. 

Today’s show is continued discussion from show 114 about how to keep the CIO position relevant as technology becomes more of a commodity in today’s business world. 

As always, I welcome your comments either here on the blog, or by emailing me directly at spencer@itpodcast.org.

 
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The next show will be released on August 2, 2008.

Thank you,

 Spencer

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This post was written by Spencer on July 19, 2008

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