Tag Archive: healthcare

Aug
20

So You are Too Busy for Data?

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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Aug
02

Privacy vs. Geography

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 …

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Jul
19

Keeping the CIO Position Relevant continued

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 …

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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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Jun
21

Telecommuting and Golf

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 …

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Jun
07

Time Management for your Team

In today’s show, we are going to talk about how to take one of many time management tools and modify 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.  This isn’t just a table with four squares, but has some notes …

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May
24

Do We Suck as Bad as the Airline Industry?

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 …

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May
03

Are you Stagnant?

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 …

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Apr
19

A Talk with Jim Pesce of McKesson’s Paragon Group

On this week’s show, we talk with Jim Pesce, Executive Vice President and General Manager of McKesson’s Paragon group about what is going on with the Paragon Hospital Information System.  I still need other vendors to give me a call so we can feature their products and what is going on with them.  Jim asked …

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Apr
04

CMS Never Events-Interview with Coryee Hamons

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 …

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