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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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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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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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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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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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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.  As always, I want to hear your comments and any thoughts you have on how to make technology a true part of the executive table, so please email me at spencer@itpodcast.org or post your comments right here.

 

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On our “In the News” Segment, I reference the following articles:

Universal Music Group Sues and Looses

Google has to turn over 12TB of data to Viacom

Microsoft Critical Patches for Server and SQL

New 2009 Joint Commission Standards

The next show will be released July 19, 2008.

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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 having a little fun at the same time). As always, I want to hear your comments so please feel free to email me at spencer@itpodcast.org or post them here on the site.

 

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During our “In the News” segment on today’s podcast, here are the links to the articles I referenced.

Internet Service Provider Spat between Cogent and TeliaSonera

$499 1.5m Cat6 RJ45 Cable???

Information about Associated Press going after Blogs

          San Francisco Chronicle Article

          MSNBC Article

          Actual court decision documents

Glassdoor.com Website

Oracle Increases Prices 

IT Workers Willing to Take 10% Pay Cut to Telecommute

CIO Magazine Article written by John Halamka about Telecommuting

Can Playing Golf Help Your Career?

I hope you enjoy this week’s show, the next podcast will be released right around July 5th…perhaps a day or two early since I will probably be camping the mountains over the weekend.By the way opening bumper music on the podcast was my 8 year old son playing his harmonica.

Thank you for listening.

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Episode 105, released March 1, 2008. In this weeks show, in addition to our typical discussion around current news, we have Rick Hodge, Executive Vice President at InfoLogix on with us to discuss various mobility solutions in healthcare. Also, in addition to our typical upcoming events and news segments, I get on my soapbox and talk about how the involvement of the health plans and vendors across the U.S. are needed to fix the financing needs in health IT.

 

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In the podcast, I reference numerous articles. Links to those articles are below.

InfoLogix

McAfee - Spammers Exploit OOO Messages

PayPal Executive warns agains Safari Usage

How to Identify Bad CIO’s in their Natural Habitat

Seven Saving Graces for Managers

Top Health IT Concerns for 2008

Microsoft Vista Class Action Lawsuit - 158 Email Messages in PDF format

Microsoft and SAP America Enter into Health IT

Thank you for listening. Please log into http://itpodcast.org and give me your thoughts and comments…let me know what you would like to hear, and if you disagree with any of my comments. The next show will be released on March 15, 2008.

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Episode 102 of the Healthcare IT Podcast, released January 19, 2008.  This week’s episode provides the lastest news and events in health IT, and discusses comments from the ITPodcast.org website. 

 

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We still need comments from you for our next episode, and I am looking for guests as well.

Below are the referenced web links mentioned in the podcast.

CIO Magazine - Hackers and Suits Tips for Managers to Bridge the gap

Network World - Young Workers hard to retain

Network World - Too few manners at work

USA Today - Education / Business Articles

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I posted this response at CIO.com in response to an article surrounding the need for more than one software vendor.  Text of response is below.

READER FEEDBACK

Spencer Hamons Tue, 2008-01-15 17:09

Although I agree with some points made here regarding negotiation position and the relatively small number of large software vendors available, I take issue with just stating that this is the best strategy.

This may well be the best strategy for organizations with mature enought IT departments capable of handling the complexity multiple vendors involves. It is also dependent upon the business of the organization and the risk tolerance and what data integrity means to the specific organization.

For example, I am the CIO of a hospital, and if I encounter a data integration problem that happens to result in some clinical data from one patient being transposed to another patient, I don’t have an upset customer on the end of the support line for an online order they placed. I have the potential for adverse drug interactions, incorrect lab or radiology data, or even death resulting from mistreatment. These are risks that I am not willing to take for the sake of a negotiation advantage. Likewise, if my IT staff were 250 employees capable of monitoring each and every HL7 transaction, my risk tolerance would be different than it is currently with my 10 IT staff members. Additionally, in healthcare, I never have the luxury of taking the entire system down for 24 hours over the weekend…not even a portion of the system. In a 24×7 operation, care must be taken on how do you keep systems active and functioning day and night. If a data integrity problem erupts, for the safety of our patients, we have to take systems off-line. With “one throat to choke”, combined with good contract metrics, the vendor is motivated to resolve our problems quickly rather that point fingers at integration points.

This is a topic that will be discussed on an upcoming podcast at ITPodcast.org for anyone in the healthcare industry (or interested in the healthcare industry) that would like to listen in.

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