In a previous blog, I defined the digital health system that I believe delivery systems will need to implement in the next three years in order to function, thrive, and fulfill their mission. Here are some of the attitudes and activities you’ll need to get there. Change your strategic planning[…]
HIMSS20 – My Annual Exercise in HIT Sensory Overload
It’s the time of year to start preparation for the HIMSS 2020 Conference to be held in HIT’s Magic Kingdom appropriately hosted in Orlando, FL at the cavernous Orange County Convention Center. The options for professional growth are immense and overwhelming – how does anyone or even a well-organized team[…]
Digital Health – Is Healthcare Ready? Are You and Your Organization Ready?
We hear the term “digital” used everywhere. In the healthcare sector, we’re told that we must get to digital in 3 years or less or we’ll become irrelevant. So, what is Digital Health and how do we become a Digital Health System? A Google search for “define digital health” yields[…]
10 Steps to Prepare for 2020 – Big Challenges – Bigger Opportunities
It’s that time of year again when prognosticators and futurists compile a top 10 list for the upcoming year. Please joining me in welcoming 2020 with a call to action for our wonderfully challenging and opportunity rich healthcare IT environment. Before starting the list of recommended actions, I suggest that[…]
Who am I? Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) can help.
Who am I? Let’s assume that we’ve solved the positive person identification problem and we know with 100% certainty the identity of the person who’s come for a health or care interaction. Do we really “know” them? I think not. Even today with the proliferation of electronic records and the[…]
Who Belongs at the Center of Everything We Do?
Ask a healthcare system leader where they focus and the answer will generally be the same, “We put the patient at the center of everything we do.” Laudable, but examine how budgets are spent, where efforts are focused, and you’ll find that providers are more often at the center. This[…]
IT Is Reaching Commodity Status – Are You Taking Advantage?
Though my business card says Principal, I’d prefer the term Provocateur. As a year-long challenge to traditional thinking, I have proposed the notion to professional friends and colleagues that many skills, processes, and technology in the healthcare sector have reached commodity status. That change presents great potential benefits for the[…]
CHIME/HIMSS 2019 – Recovering from HIT Hyperstimulation
I just returned from HIMSS19, HIT’s Magic Kingdom appropriately hosted in Orlando, FL at the cavernous Orange County Convention Center. The options for professional growth were immense and overwhelming – how does anyone or even a well-organized team get to attend more than 300 education sessions, visit 1,400 vendor booths,[…]
Prepare to visit HIMSS2019 – Health IT’s Magic Kingdom
The annual HIMSS Conference is upon us. The big question is how to prepare. First step is to visit the HIMSS19 website to review the schedule. Next get comfortable shoes. Then make sure your personal fitness tracker will measure your steps and minutes of exercise for the purposes of explaining[…]
10 Steps to Prepare for 2019 – Big Challenges – Bigger Opportunities
The advent of a New Year finds the media filled with reviews of the past year and Top 10 predictions about the future from esteemed prognosticators. I’d like to join the other forecasters and warmly welcome 2019 with a call to action in a challenging, yet opportunity rich healthcare environment.[…]