Continue reading »]]> On this week’s show, we talk about the CMS “Never Events” and talk with San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center’s Director of Quality and Patient Safety, Coryee Hamons about how these never events are going to affect hospitals and the challenges we face.  I have not forgotten about the multi-part series to talk about the various integrated hospital information systems that are out there, but so far, I have only had McKesson’s Paragon group and Meditech respond.  If I don’t get more vendors interested in participating, I plan on going forward with interviews with McKesson’s Jim Pesce as well as some (at this time unnamed) executive from Meditech.

I need you to get the information out to your vendors and have them contact me at spencer@itpodcast.org so we can set up a time to talk with them.

If you want to add this link to your Google homepage, please click here:

Here are the links for the stories mentioned in the news segment of the show:

Alamosa, Colorado Salmonella Outbreak Update

11 Year Old takes school network by the horns

Cautious VoIP Approach

Safari Web Browser Catches Businesses by Surprise

National Institute of Health Division Laptop Stolen

Antioch University Sun Solaris Server Breach

Thank you for listening.  The next show will be released on Saturday, April 19, 2008

Continue reading »]]> This is a very abbreviated version of the typical healthcare IT podcast.  The reason for the short show is primarily because I have lost my voice due to a cold and can’t really do a full show.  Secondly, here in Alamosa, Colorado…we are dealing with a salmonella outbreak in the city water supply that has required a lot of additional work for me at the hospital and at the county Emergency Operations Center.  This extra work took away any chance of doing the research necessary for the show.

If you want to listen, you can hear it here:

If you want to add this link to your Google homepage, please click here:

I will be doing my research and intend on getting the next show out on Saturday, April 5th…which is a week earlier than normal.

Also, I would like to specifically send a thank you out to McKesson Provider Technologies.  When McKesson heard about our salmonella problem in Alamosa, one of their sales executives, Ted Pazur, went and rented a UHaul truck, went to a store in Denver and bought all the water he could, and drove the water nearly 5 hours so our hospital would have a fresh supply of bottled water.  Thank you Ted and McKesson!

Here are some links to stories about the Alamosa Salmonella outbreak:

General San Luis Valley News

News Segment from Pentagon TV

Press release from State of Colorado confirming findings

General Press Release from State of Colorado

Denver NBC Affiliate Coverage of Outbreak

Again, thank you for listening to this short and pointless episode.