Monday, April 26, 2010
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Saturday, April 24, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Mashable Shared Story
from phone:
Blaine
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Hospital Outfits Staff with 100 iPads
from phone:
Blaine
6103108104
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
iPad Kiosk Solutions - Secure, Water Resistant, Speaker, LandscapePortrait Hinge - iPad Kiosk Solutions
awesome solution
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Your next Book should be an app and not an iBook
There are literary techniques, there will be iPad techniques.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Home health technology products
Wed May 5, 2010 5:30 PM
Location: Foley Hoag Emerging Enterprise Center, Bay Colony Corporate Center, 1000 Winter Street, Suite 4000, North Entrance, Waltham, Massachusetts 02451-1436
Program Synopsis:
Join us in a conversation with industry thought leaders for a panel discussion on the rapidly growing category of home health care products and the technologies that are driving opportunities. Experts from the business sector, technology, and human-centered design will share key data, information, and point of views on trends affecting this space. Through these varied perspectives, panelists will discuss the emerging opportunities that are forming at the intersection of business strategy, enabling technologies and human-centered design and development.
Hear from entrepreneurs, technologists and adherence experts who are leading industry in the development of products and services targeting consumers and self managed health care.
Panelists:
Devorah Klein, Ph.D., Principal at Continuum
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David Rose, Chief Executive Officer, Vitality
David M. Barash, M.D., President, Concord Healthcare Strategies
Ben Rubin, Co-founder and CTO of Zeo
Frank McGillin,Vice President Marketing Communications, Philips Healthcare
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Registration Fee:
Members: $20 (PrePaid), $30 at the door
NonMembers: $30 (PrePaid), $40 at the door
Register for this event:
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Saturday, April 10, 2010
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Big kudo for ipad
from phone:
Blaine
6103108104
Monday, April 5, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
How Don Berwick Will Run CMS
The CMS administrator job has always been exceptionally challenging, but the recently enacted health overhaul will create new ones for whomever eventually fills the post. For starters, the overhaul contemplates expanding Medicaid to cover 16 million more people, and squeezing nearly $500 billion out of Medicare over the next decade.
I know Don well, having worked closely with him on several projects from 1987-1995. I helped his team develop and teach “Improving Health Care Quality,” the flagship course for Don’s National Demonstration Project (which later became the Institute for Healthcare Improvement). We even published a paper together back in the day.
Don has had a tremendously positive impact on my career. I can say more about that, but what I prefer to do instead is speculate a bit about how Don will approach his new challenge. (For other takes on Don’s nomination, see here, here and here.)
Don Will Create a Vision for CMS-He probably has ideas for this already, but Don will consider his ideas to be a starting-point. He will develop them into final form by seeking input from CMS staffers at all levels of the organization. That process will be egalitarian and collaborative. When it is done, nearly all 4,400 people at CMS will have had a chance to give input. As a result, nearly everyone at CMS will own the vision. They will be deeply motivated to make it happen.
Ultimately, the Vision Will be Driven by Customer Need-CMS has millions of customers, including beneficiaries, providers and taxpayers. Their needs often conflict. Don will be at ease with this and will work with his teams to sort them out. In the process, he will reinforce and expand the commitment to customer-service for every CMS employee.
Don Will Use Process Performance Metrics to Assess Progress in Meeting Customer Needs-He will work with staff to identify the processes at CMS that have the greatest impact on customer satisfaction. As the Administrator, Don might only see a top-level “Report Card” of these metrics, but he will make sure that successive layers of his organization have identified which of their own processes contribute to the metrics he sees. In this way, Don will assure that everyone at CMS understands how their work contributes to overall performance of the organization, and ultimately to making its customers happy.
CMS Employees will Love Working for Don-Don will help them see that when errors do occur, they are almost always caused process design failures and not the people who work in these processes. That insight will encourage people to improve the processes in which they work, a supremely empowering concept that brings out the best in people while accelerating process improvement across CMS.
Beyond this, Don will listen to his people and value their input. He knows they are his most valuable asset. He will make his people believe this, too.
Don Will Use Benchmarking to Improve CMS Performance-There might be a state agency, or even a city or county agency that has achieved performance breakthroughs in an area relevant to CMS. Don will ask his people to learn from those agencies. His people will understand it’s OK to learn new ways and accept new ideas, including those from agencies that may have nothing to do with health care.
Don Will Approach HIT Using these Same Principles-Don knows it is hard to implement EHRs hospitals, which are among the most complex sociotechnical systems in modern society. He knows that process knowledge holds the key to successful EHR implementation in such settings, and that when things go wrong it may or may not be caused by the EHR, or the people that use them. And to be sure, Don will emphasize the EHRs’ role in patient safety. Don will also assure that providers’ concerns about Meaningful Use are aired, understood and acted upon.
There’s more, but this is the gist. Don is going to be great. He has been training his whole career for a role like this. Don Berwick to CMS is a brilliant move by President Obama. Good luck, Don!
Glenn Laffel, MD, PhD
Sr. VP Clinical Affairs, Practice Fusion
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Is HITECH Working? #1: Hospitals are grumbling but are playing in the game; success is not guarante
by Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA and David C. Kibbe MD, MBA
The rationale for hospitals having to play in the HITECH game is straightforward: the financial carrots through 2015 are helpful, and the financial sticks after 2015 will be very painful.
We’ll discuss:
- Financial Impacts on Hospitals
- Survey Data Showing Hospitals Will Play
- Why Success is Not Guaranteed
Financial Impacts on Hospitals
Even prior to HITECH, most hospital executives already had passed the threshold decision and concluded that they need to implement EHR technology. Thus, the issue for most hospitals isn’t “whether” to implement EHR technology, but “when”, “at what cost”, and “how”. (more…)
Article Series - Is HITECH Working?
- Is HITECH Working? 7 Observations Mom Could Understand
- Is HITECH Working? #1: Hospitals are grumbling but are playing in the game; success is not guaranteed.
Tags: CCHIT, certification, EHR, EMR, HIE, HIMSS, HITECH, hospital, meaningful use, Medicare, privacy
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Another checklist victory
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