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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.

 

 Episode 121 of the Healthcare IT Podcast [11:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (228)

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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

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On today’s show, I talk about alignment of IT initiatives and your organization’s long-term strategic plan and short-term tactical goals.

I also have a talk with Nuance Communication’s Keith Belton about Nuance’s new Dragon Medical product and where Keith feels that speech recognition will continue to be in the future of healthcare IT.

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 Keith, you can reach him at Keith.Belton@Nuance.com. For more information about Dragon Medical, you can click here and a new window will open and you will be taken to their page.

 

 Ep 120 of the Healthcare IT Podcast [35:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (530)

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This week, I did not have any news because the show was getting a little long.

If you would like to comment on this podcast, you can either email me at spencer@itpodcast.org, or you can click on the title of this post and on the new page, scroll down to “comment”.

The next podcast will be available on November 1, 2008.

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In this week’s podcast I want to talk about how to be environmentally conscious in your IT operations, without spending a million dollars, and while making good business sense.

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

 

 Spencer Hamons Healthcare IT Podcast - Show 118 [13:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (456)

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

IEEE ratifies 802.11r standard to enhance VoIP over Wi-Fi handoffs

Comcast puts the screws to customers downloading over 250GB per month

Google Chrome?

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 20, 2008

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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 the blog, or by emailing me directly at spencer@itpodcast.org.

 

 Healthcare IT Podcast-Episode 116 [9:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (675)

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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

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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.  As always, I want to hear your comments and any thoughts you have on how to make technology a true part of the executive table, so please email me at spencer@itpodcast.org or post your comments right here.

 

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On our “In the News” Segment, I reference the following articles:

Universal Music Group Sues and Looses

Google has to turn over 12TB of data to Viacom

Microsoft Critical Patches for Server and SQL

New 2009 Joint Commission Standards

The next show will be released July 19, 2008.

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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.

 

 Healthcare IT Podcast - Episode 113 - Telecommuting and Golf [16:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (816)

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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.

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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.

 

 Healthcare IT Podcast Episode 111 - Do We Suck As Bad as the Airline Industry [15:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (814)

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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

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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.

 

 Healthcare IT Podcast, Episode 109 [25:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1060)

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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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Episode 105, released March 1, 2008. In this weeks show, in addition to our typical discussion around current news, we have Rick Hodge, Executive Vice President at InfoLogix on with us to discuss various mobility solutions in healthcare. Also, in addition to our typical upcoming events and news segments, I get on my soapbox and talk about how the involvement of the health plans and vendors across the U.S. are needed to fix the financing needs in health IT.

 

 Healthcare IT Podcast - Episode 105 [35:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (966)

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In the podcast, I reference numerous articles. Links to those articles are below.

InfoLogix

McAfee - Spammers Exploit OOO Messages

PayPal Executive warns agains Safari Usage

How to Identify Bad CIO’s in their Natural Habitat

Seven Saving Graces for Managers

Top Health IT Concerns for 2008

Microsoft Vista Class Action Lawsuit - 158 Email Messages in PDF format

Microsoft and SAP America Enter into Health IT

Thank you for listening. Please log into http://itpodcast.org and give me your thoughts and comments…let me know what you would like to hear, and if you disagree with any of my comments. The next show will be released on March 15, 2008.

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Episode 104, released February 16, 2008.  In this weeks show, in addition to our typical discussion around current news, we have Steve VanWagenen, one of the research directors from KLAS as our guest.  Also, this episode features a discussion of the differences between Research in Motion’s (RIM) Blackberry devices versus Windows Mobile Devices and their use in the healthcare enterprise.

 

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In the podcast, I reference numerous articles.  Links to those articles are below.

KLAS Research

Top 10 Places to Take Your Techie on a Date (and other interesting items)

Underwater Cable Cuts

New Google Applications Released that can be used without IT Approval

Huge Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Mozilla Firefox Patches

Checkfree online check deposits

Cisco Unified Communications Manager - Call Manager Heap Flaws and other Vulnerabilities

Juniper Networks dumps DX series gear

Thank you for listening.  Please log into http://itpodcast.org and give me your thoughts and comments…let me know what you would like to hear, and if you disagree with any of my comments.  The next show will be released on March 1, 2008.

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