Yearly Archive: 2008

Nov
09

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 …

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Oct
18

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, …

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Sep
20

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 …

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Sep
06

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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Aug
20

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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Aug
02

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 …

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Jul
19

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 …

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Jul
04

Keeping the CIO Position Relevant – Part 1

Today, we talk about how to keep the CIO position relevant in your organization as information and technology becomes more of a commodity, and for those organizations without a CIO, why that is and how to change it.  While this post is a couple of years old now that it is 2011, much of the …

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Jun
21

Telecommuting and Golf

On today’s show, we focus on a lot of interesting tech articles that have come out this week, spending a little more time on two of them.  The first is a discussion about telecommuting and how things differ a bit in different environments, the second is a quick discussion about golf and your career (and …

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Jun
07

Time Management for your Team

In today’s show, we are going to talk about how to take one of many time management tools and modify it slightly to use it as a management tool for your team.  Attached to this post is a Microsoft Word document of Covey’s Quadrants.  This isn’t just a table with four squares, but has some notes …

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