I am finalizing my preparations for my podcasts. I am debating on whether I want to do the podcast monthly or every two weeks. I want the quality to be there, and not just putting a bunch of nonsensical muse that does no one any good.
I also would like to know who you, the listener, want to hear from. I can have guest speakers and interviews via telephone…but I want to be sure it is someone in our industry that you are interested in hearing. Some ideas of who I am considering are (note: none of these are confirmed, just ideas):
Jared Peterson, VP of Research Operations for KLAS; John Wade, HIMSS Chair; Jim Pesce, Vice President and General Manager, McKesson Provider Technologies – Paragon; P. Jon White, MD – Health IT Portfolio Manager, HHS; Joe Nunez, HHS Region 8 Regional Director; David Rosenbaum, Editor of CIO Magazine; Pam Pure, President of McKesson Provider Technologies; Howard Messing, President and COO of MEDITECH; Jack Walker, President and CEO – EHospitalConsulting; Matt Campbell, Managing Director of U.S. Healthcare and Life Sciences Group for Microsoft; Peter Altabef, President and CEO of Perot Systems; Burt Zimmerly, CFO of Intermountain Healthcare; Chris Sullivan, Director of Health Industry Solutions for Microsoft Corporation; Joel French, Vice President of Motion Computing, Inc. Healthcare Division; Joe Petro, SVP of Product Development for Eclipsys.
Again, these are just some of my initial ideas that I have out there, but I really want to hear from you. Please add your comments to this blog and let me know what you think.
Spencer
Posted under Podcast Guest Discussion
This post was written by Spencer on January 5, 2008
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Spencer you are always teaching me. I enjoyed the podcast and am forwarding it to some IT directors that I’ve worked with.
Keep up the good work!
I’ll have a suggestion on a company to contact for a possible interview in a few months. After I see the software in action a little more.
Not sure if I posted this in the right place so I have also posted it here…..
Great podcasts!! Your discussion of the importance of CIO in hospital strategic planning is EXACTLY right… I have been involved in CPOE implementations and RHIO efforts and the lack of understanding and inclusion of HIT in the hospital strategic planning was a MAJOR problem!
Some suggestions of topics:
1. PHYSICIAN involvement in HIT. We (yes I am a doc) are critical in HIT but CIOs need the right kind of physician to partner with. CMIOs are becoming more common but vary in their training and background. There is a national organization for them now (AMDIS) and some of us who have had the roll are helping write a guide on this topic. I think a show on the importance of physician participation and leadership and who is the right type of physicain for this roll (NOT a geek with a stethescope!) would be great!!!!
2. State roll in HIT – I am biased here because I have just switched from being a CMIO to a position in the NYS DOH to work on this but the state roll is getting bigger and bigger as it becomes clear the feds won’t or can’t do a lot and some real policy decisions etc need to get done.
3. Medication management – huge topic from e-prescribing to CPOE but really where most of the improvements in patient safety currently have been proven… you can do it right but you can certainly do it wrong!! Tips on how to do it RIGHT plus the challenges that remain (again I am biased because this is a special area of interest for me as I have edited a book for HIMSS on e-prescribing and led a CPOE implementation as CMIO.
If you are still reading….thanks again for your podcast. I am very impressed with your insight…I am passing on the link to lots of folks…. nice job!!!!!!!!!
Dear BoondocsMD
Thank you for taking the time to listen to my podcast and post your opinions, I truly do appreciate it.
I agree with everything that you have said in your comment, especially your number 1 comment. CIO’s need physician’s that we can partner with, but as you said, it has to be the right type of physician. I am lucky that even being in rural Colorado, I have a few M.D.’s that came from places like Mayo that are able to see the big picture.
When I am speaking to audiences that often have physicians in them, I equate the time that we are in right now with the time of Ignaz Semmelweis when in 1847 he discovered how important hand washing was. The example I use it to paint a mental picture of physicians walking around in a hospital of today, when someone from the Infection Control Department comes by and tells the physicians that there is evidence that hand-washing can cut down on the risk of infection. I role play out physician’s talking to each other, acting like having to wash their hands was going to take so much time during the day that they couldn’t see as many patients and it would cut into the productivity. Basically, we can come up so many reasons that we “can’t” do this. We have to put sinks in every room? What about the cost of soap? My productivity is going to be shot! This is just going to be way too cost prohibitive to do.
I hope you don’t mind, but I linked your comment to your website information so the listeners can access your resources that you mentioned.
I would love to have an opportunity to speak with you, and would love to have you as a guest on the podcast sometime. I am recording an interview with KLAS sometime this week, but let me know what you think.