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Show 206-Transitioning from a Tactical to Strategic Technology Organization

Spencer — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:43:52 +0000

Todays show talks about a topic that I get a lot of inquiries from young managers about, and just so happens to be a topic of discussion in one of my classes at Colorado State…how to help move your technology organization from a tactically focused organization to a strategically focused organization. For those of you that have listened to this show for a while, you know that I believe that the success of an organization is held within the people that make up the organization. In today’s discussion, I talk about some ways to encourage your staff to perform in a more strategically significant manner.

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As always, I am looking for ideas for new shows. If you have topics that interest you that you would like to see tackled, please let me know. You can email those ideas to me, click on the link at the top of this post, then scroll down and click on “comment”. I will admit that I get a lot of inquiries from vendors about being on the show, so if you are a vendor, be forewarned that I do not accept any advertising on this blog for a reason, and that reason is that I reserve the right to ask any questions of my guests that I want, and publish the answers to those questions. If you are a vendor looking for someone to tout the wonders of your product, there are other websites you can look at. If you want an honest discussion of the pros and cons of a product, please contact me.

Spencer Hamons

Healthcare IT Podcast Show 204 – Who owns the EMR / EHR

Spencer — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:11:28 +0000

On this show, I have an interview with U.S. Army Major Eric McClung and Lieutenant Colonel Robert Curee. Maj. McClung is the Chief Information Officer for Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center at Ft. Gordon, GA. LTC Curee is the Regional CIO for the Southeast Regional Medical Command (SERMC).

Our discussion is about who owns the EMR and EHR process in military medical facilities, as well as discussions around how the military’s medical facility operations parallel many of the operational fundamentals found in civilian healthcare facilities now. We also discuss some of Maj McClung’s and LTC Curee’s thoughts about leadership certifications for CIO’s.

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Healthcare IT Podcast – Ep 117 – So You are Too Busy for Data

Spencer — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:12:31 +0000

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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The articles that I reference in the podcast are linked below:

Consumer off-site data store LinkUp fails

19 Hour Laptop

You never know what may show up in those search engine cached pages

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 6, 2008

Healthcare IT Podcast – Episode 116 – Privacy vs. Geography

Spencer — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:26:47 +0000

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.

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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

Healthcare IT Podcast – Episode 115 – Keeping the CIO Position Relevant continued

Spencer — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:30:36 +0000

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.

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The next show will be released on August 2, 2008.

Thank you,

Spencer

Healthcare IT Podcast-Episode 113 – Telecommuting and Golf

Spencer — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:50:35 +0000

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.

Healthcare IT Podcast Episode 112 – Time Management for your Team

Spencer — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:25:45 +0000

In today’s show, we are going to talk about how to take one of many time management tools and modifying 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, and some notes that we use internally here at SLV Regional Medical Center when we prioritize our various tasks. I hope that you will find this as helpful in managing your team and their expectations as I do. If you have any questions about how we use this effectively here at our little hospital in Alamosa, Colorado, please feel free to email me at spencer@itpodcast.org.

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

Merge Healthcare’s Reorganization and Executive Resignations

Walter Reed Army Medical Center data breech

U.S. Commerce Department Laptop possibly hacked by China

Philadelphia Wi-Fi Shutting Down

Comcast Traffic Management Move

Akamai “State of the Internet” Report

I hope that you will try to use this tool in your department. I would like to know if it is helpful, or if any of you out there are using this tool (or anything similar) in a slightly different way or in some unique fashion.

The opening and closing music on the podcast this week is Crazy by the group Kapena.

Our next show will be on June 21, 2008. Thank you for listening.

Healthcare IT Podcast – Episode 111 – Do We Suck as Bad as the Airline Industry?

Spencer — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:44:23 +0000

Sorry for being a week late on releasing the latest show, but I had to play catchup after our trip to Kauai.

Today’s show starts out with some awesome music from an artist I just heard of and purchased his latest album after listening to a song on the radio in the rental Mustang in Kauai. You can find more of his music at http://www.jasonmraz.com.

Listen to today’s show for the latest news and events in health IT and observations made between the healthcare and the airline industries.

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The following articles are referenced on the “In the News” section of today’s podcast. Also, the various “upcoming events” can be found in the upcoming events section of this page.

U.S. Government to Encrypt 800,000 Laptops

Spint Nextel to Limit their “Unlimited” Data Plan

Venitian Hotel Network

CCHIT Releases New Ambulatory EHR Criteria

Healthcare IT Podcast – Episode 110 – Are you Stagnant?

Spencer — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:17:36 +0000

Because I was unable to get the interview with executives from Meditech this last week, we will fall back to our typical format with news and information, followed by some questions about leadership and what happens when leaders become stagnant and stop learning.

I will be taking my first vacation in about 4 years over the next week, so emails that you may send to me will likely have delayed responses. Please don’t let that stop you, I promise I will return all your emails when I return.

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The following articles are referenced on the “In the News” section of today’s podcast.

U.S. Firm fined for hiring violations with H-1B visas

Video of Cohen & Grigsby Speech about how to not hire U.S. Workers

Purdue University Supercomputing Barn Raising (trailer)

AT&T Opens up Wi-Fi to iPhone Users

MedAssets Acquires Accuro Healthcare

The next podcast will be released on May 17, 2008.

Healthcare IT Podcast – Episode 108

Spencer — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:35:32 +0000

On this week’s show, we talk about the CMS “Never Events” and talk with San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center 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 Mike Youmans as well as some executives from Meditech.

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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