Tag Archive: hospital

Mar
08

How do you use your metrics?

As I close on the last few weeks of my graduate degree program, I finally have some time to produce this podcast once again. I would like to thank all of you that wrote me over the past months asking where I was, checking to be sure I was okay, and for all of the …

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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
14

How Do You Use Consultants?

I would like that thank all of you that have listened to the podcast with Maj McClung and LTC Curee from Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Ft. Gordon, GA.  That podcast’s topic was “who owns the EHR / EMR”, and it has by far been the most popular show here at ITPodcast.org since …

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May
07

Geography vs. Generational Differences

Well, the Kuskokwim River is starting to break up here in Bethel, Alaska…the geese and ducks are here for the summer, and we are getting our sunset around 11:30pm.  I knew I needed to get a podcast out soon, because I know it will be tough as soon as the salmon runs start. On this …

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Sep
20

A talk with Practice Partner’s Chad Hendricks

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 …

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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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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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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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Mar
29

Salmonella Outbreak Emergency Causes Short Show

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 …

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