Spooner Named CIO of the Year
William Spooner, FCHIME, SVP & CIO at Sharp HealthCare in San Diego, Calif., has been named 2009 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year Award by CHIME. Spooner, an active contributor and leader of both...
View ArticlehealthsystemCIO.com® to Provide Insight for CIOs
NEW YORK, January 19, 2010 — healthsystemCIO.com was launched today with the goal of becoming the premier news and opinion Web site for healthcare CIOs. Through news, interviews and guest blogs, the...
View ArticlePlug Into healthsystemCIO.com
While we love people who come visit our site every single day, we also understand that for many of our busy readers, that’s just not possible. Luckily healthsystemCIO.com can offer a number of options...
View ArticleHey Mr./Mrs. CIO: Is Blogging for You?
Part of our vision for healthsystemCIO.com is to provide a format where any CIO who wishes to start a blog can do so. It’s very difficult to start a blog on your own, very hard to drive traffic. Often,...
View ArticleStaying Informed of New Content With RSS
The best way to stay informed of new content on healthsystemCIO.com is by pulling RSS feeds right into your email inbox. As a reader, you have tremendous flexibility in deciding which postings to be...
View ArticlePBM versus EHR: Culture Clash?
Individualizing drug therapy based on pharmacogenomics (PGx) is considered by many academic researchers and clinical experts as the “next significant domain of clinical practice” (see the American...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor: MU Bar Will Come Down
Hi Anthony: A quick reaction or counter to your prediction. I think the bar will come down, but will it be enough or perhaps stated differently will it provide enough flexibility particularly for the...
View ArticleFDA to Recommend New Physician Certification
The FDA has been receiving a great deal of criticism from the clinical community about a variety of issues, but probably none is as contentious as the ongoing patient safety issues regarding harmful...
View ArticleKLAS: BI Implementations Benefit from Outside Help
Business intelligence software can be of extremely high value to healthcare organizations, though the value is greater if hospitals go outside their four walls for implementation assistance, according...
View ArticleYour Local RHIO/HIE Could Be a Meaningful Partner
Your local RHIO or HIE should be much more than a check box on your Meaningful Use requirements list, they stand to play an important role in delivering the vision Meaningful Use. Too often RHIOs are...
View ArticleIs Healthcare IT Really Behind Other Industries?
You often hear ill-informed keynote speakers, healthcare leaders and others say that the healthcare industry is behind, often drastically, other industries when it comes to the adoption of IT. Those...
View ArticleHonor the Many Veterans in Your Midst
On Thursday, Nov. 11, we observe Veteran’s Day — a day to celebrate and honor those who have sacrificed through their service to our nation in the military. Many have given the ultimate sacrifice...
View ArticlePolicy Committee Balks at NHIN Proposal
Despite eagerness to have formal recommendations in place, the full HIT Policy Committee this week balked at a proposal for the National Health Information Network's governance structure and instead...
View ArticleTEXT/PODCAST: Best in KLAS 2010 Revealed (One-on-One w/President Adam Gale,...
In its end-of-year report – 2010 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Professional Services – KLAS finds Epic is the top-ranked overall software vendor, with a performance score of 87.0 out of...
View ArticleIOM Envisions HIT Infrastructure of Tomorrow
The vision of a safe, efficient and cost-effective healthcare system supported by information technology was outlined in a recent Institute of Medicine report, "The Learning Health System Series: The...
View ArticleChristian Named CHIME CIO of the Year
Chuck Christian, CIO, Good Samaritan Hospital, has been named the 2010 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year. Christian is now in his 22nd year as CIO at Good Samaritan and his 40th year in healthcare. He...
View ArticleInterMountain to Open CIS Research Center, Hire Staff
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare is opening the “Homer Warner Center for Informatics Research” to support its clinical information systems. Intermountain’s new center — set to open on Feb....
View ArticleSue Schade, VP/CIO, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Partners HealthCare, Chapter 1
*About PHMI *About the project *Evaluating vendors for an international project *Physician attitudes in India toward advanced clinicals *Similarities and differencesSource: Sue Schade, VP/CIO, Brigham...
View ArticleWhat Vacations Tell Us About Life
To look by the door, you’d think Peter the Great’s Grand Embassy was set to depart for its European tour. But alas, it was (according to my wife) merely cluttered with the essentials required to...
View ArticleKLAS Breaks Down BI Vendors
With payment reform making business decisions ever more intricate, a new KLAS report, Business Intelligence: Making Cents of Performance, seeks to offer insight into the marketplace. “Analytics...
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