Though there is a surge in COVID-19 cases, many organizations are adjusting to the ‘new normal’ or at least the ‘normal for now’. Many of us are now going back to revisit what was on our list of 2020 projects. I would hazard a guess that many have ‘EHR optimization’[…]
Digital Health – Governance in a Digital Health System
In a previous blog, I defined the digital health system that delivery systems need to implement in the next three years in order to function, thrive, and fulfill their mission. In another blog, I listed some of the attitudes and activities systems will need to get there. Here I will[…]
Time to Elevate ROI to VOI
For all those CFOs, CIOs and CDOs out there, the time has come to reassess your approach to evaluating investments, particularly those in HIT (healthcare information technology). Reports on how to respond to COVID’s dramatic financial impact on every sector including healthcare starts with and often focuses on a review[…]
Advancing your Healthcare IT Career – Leading in the Time of COVID-19…and Beyond
Last September I wrote a blog post about advancing your healthcare IT career that focused on three ingredients for success: understanding the business, understanding technology and understanding yourself. Life certainly changed dramatically since I wrote those words last September. Still, those three areas have relevance, regardless of the impact of[…]
Closing the Gap on Disaster Preparedness – A More Efficient Way to Flatten the Curve
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed a significant gap in disaster management at many facilities, including those who treat in place and those who set up alternate treatment sites. To triage, treat, and manage the overwhelming volume of urgent and emergent patients, many provider organizations are passing on the opportunity to[…]
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[…]
Changes in the C- Suite
As seismic shifts in Healthcare continue to accelerate, and disruption becomes more the status quo, health systems are creating new C-Suite roles, demanding new capabilities in existing roles, and seeking new non-industry talent to fill those roles. Creating New C-Suite Roles is one way that organizations are assigning focus and[…]
Aligning IT with business strategy: Be engaged!
By Erik Kubinski, MBA, ACHE There is a lot of literature available to us in books and elsewhere on how to better align IT with the business strategy. A classic book that we still discuss today from the 1990s, is “Practical Steps for Aligning Information Technology with Business Strategies,” even[…]
NHIT Week: 4 Leaders on the Value of HIT
September 23-27 is National Health IT (NHIT) Week. A time when our industry highlights the impact of IT in transforming healthcare and advocates for needed changes. This year’s asks revolve around population health, modernizing the public health infrastructure, access to broadband and telehealth, and Social Determinants of Health. In recognition[…]