Tag Archive: health it

Apr
18

Analysis of ARRA Funding for Health IT

For today’s podcast, I did some research at http://www.recovery.gov , looking for recipient reports for “Health IT”.  The results were pretty interesting.  In the show, I talk about some of the information that I found, some trends that I saw, and talk about a few of the more humorous projects (like one for the study …

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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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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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Feb
16

KLAS Research – A Talk with Steve VanWagenen

Episode 104, released February 16, 2008.  In this weeks show, in addition to our typical discussion around current news, we have Steve VanWagenen, one of the research directors from KLAS as our guest.  Also, this episode features a discussion of the differences between Research in Motion’s (RIM) Blackberry devices versus Windows Mobile Devices and their use …

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Feb
02

Feb 08 – Clinical Documentation / Strategic vs Tactical Planning

MARCH 25, 2011 NOTE: Wow, my old podcasts are pretty bad! In this week’s show, we discuss some discussion surrounding inpatient clinical documentation, and also discuss Strategic vs. Tactical IT planning.  The value of the inpatient clinical documentation discussion is likely dated, since this podcast was originally published on February 2, 2008, but some of the …

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Jan
15

Response to CIO Magazine Article – Why you need more than one software vendor

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 …

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