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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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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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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.

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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 me to pass along his phone number at the Paragon Corporate offices in Charlotte, NC so that our listeners can contact them with any questions.  Their number is (704)549.7123.

PLEASE…I need you to get the information out to your vendors and have them contact me at spencer@itpodcast.org so we can set up a time to talk with them.

 

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

Cisco to Phase-Out Linksys Brand

H-1B Visa Quota Met

Testimony to Congress that we need 40,000 more Health IT Professionals

The next podcast will be produced and released on May 3, 2008.

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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. 

I need you to get the information out to your vendors and have them contact me at spencer@itpodcast.org so we can set up a time to talk with them.

 

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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

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Episode 106, released March 15, 2008. In this weeks show, in addition to our typical discussion around current news, I am kicking off a 4 part series about the various integrated hospital information systems that are available in the marketplace.  In this part of the series, we talk about the use of selection and implementation vendors during the installation of a new HIS.

 

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In the news features of this podcast I reference the following articles…

Excel patch causes bad math

iPhone to release enterprise grade features

New high-def DVD player enters the market

Microsoft makes IE 8 beta available

YouTube knocked offline by Pakistan

Network Solutions sued over domain name registration policies

Thank you for listening. Please send information about this podcast onto your current HIS vendors and let them know that I would like them to appear on itpodcast.org. The next show will be released on March 29, 2008.

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Episode 103, release February 1, 2008.  In this week’s show, we discuss the latest news and events in health IT, have some discussion surrounding inpatient clinical documentation, and also discuss Strategic vs. Tactical IT planning. 

 

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In the podcast, I reference numerous articles, below you can find the links.

2008 Scripting Games

SANS Institute Top 10 Security Threats for 2008

EMC offers flash drives in their DMX-4 storage solutions

CCHIT Certifies additional Inpatient EHR products

Contradictory Physician Responses in Survey

802.11b on Mass. Commuter Train Line

Washington D.C. Government works to recover from online porn debacle

Data Farming (otherwise known as Time Motion Studies) at Methodist Le Bonjeur Healthcare in Memphis, TN

Nurses Say IT security puts crimp in their productivity

Thank you for listening.  The next show, which will be posted on February 16, 2008 will feature an interview with the research company KLAS.  KLAS is a research company that independently monitors vendor performance through active participation with healthcare organizations.  I have participated with KLAS for a number of years, and I hope you will find this interview helpful to you.

I am still looking for more ideas and guests for the podcast, so please register and let me know your thoughts.

Spencer Hamons

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I just recorded the first podcast for ITPodcast.org.  I am not 100% happy with it, a little nervous doing the first one, but I promise I will have a new pop filter installed by the next episode, and I will fix my problem with the “ahhs”.  Thank you for listening, and please post your comments and topic ideas for the next show.

 

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