Healthcare IT Podcast » » slvrmc

Show 121 – Express Scripts Gets an Extortion Letter

Spencer — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:38:07 +0000

On today’s show, I go through our typical overview of some of the most pressing stories that have the potential to affect what is happening in the world of healthcare IT, and I talk a bit about what recently happened to Express Scripts and the attempt to extort money from the company as their patient data is potentially held hostage.

If you want to add this feed through iTunes, please click here:

If you want to add this feed to your Google homepage, please click here:

Articles referenced during the podcast:

Healthcare IT News and their take on the Express Scripts extortion attempt

WPA hacked

Massive web hack

FCC approves Verizon’s acquisition of Alltel

Finally, when you listen to the podcast you will find that my wife Coryee and I are about to embark on a new adventure in Bethel, Alaska where we will be working for the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation. Also, the ending music for the podcast is provided courtesy of Kate MacLeod, a wonderful artist out of Utah. If you like her music, you can find more of it at her website at www.katemacleod.com.

Since we will be moving to Alaska over the next couple of months, I am not sure when I will have the next podcast online. I promise to make it available as soon as I possibly can. I will be checking emails and managing posts to this blog from my laptop, so please keep in touch! I can’t wait to share some pictures of what we are going to be experiencing in Alaska.

Thank you for listening.

Spencer Hamons

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.

As always, I welcome your comments either here on the blog, or by emailing me directly at spencer@itpodcast.org.

If you want to add this feed to your Google homepage, please click here:

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

Thank you,

Spencer

Healthcare IT Podcast

Spencer — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:09:09 +0000

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.

Podshow PDN {podshow-1f68d81c5575b1baba59412ccd92340d}

Who do you want as guests on our podcast?

Spencer — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:01:13 +0000

I am finalizing my preparations for my podcasts. I am debating on whether I want to do the podcast monthly or every two weeks. I want the quality to be there, and not just putting a bunch of nonsensical muse that does no one any good.

I also would like to know who you, the listener, want to hear from. I can have guest speakers and interviews via telephone…but I want to be sure it is someone in our industry that you are interested in hearing. Some ideas of who I am considering are (note: none of these are confirmed, just ideas):

Jared Peterson, VP of Research Operations for KLAS; John Wade, HIMSS Chair; Jim Pesce, Vice President and General Manager, McKesson Provider Technologies – Paragon; P. Jon White, MD – Health IT Portfolio Manager, HHS; Joe Nunez, HHS Region 8 Regional Director; David Rosenbaum, Editor of CIO Magazine; Pam Pure, President of McKesson Provider Technologies; Howard Messing, President and COO of MEDITECH; Jack Walker, President and CEO – EHospitalConsulting; Matt Campbell, Managing Director of U.S. Healthcare and Life Sciences Group for Microsoft; Peter Altabef, President and CEO of Perot Systems; Burt Zimmerly, CFO of Intermountain Healthcare; Chris Sullivan, Director of Health Industry Solutions for Microsoft Corporation; Joel French, Vice President of Motion Computing, Inc. Healthcare Division; Joe Petro, SVP of Product Development for Eclipsys.

Again, these are just some of my initial ideas that I have out there, but I really want to hear from you. Please add your comments to this blog and let me know what you think.

Spencer