When I think of Shadow IT, I can’t help but imagine Humphrey Bogart, Claude Raines, or some other nefarious looking guy in a trench coat looking out from the fog. What happens in the shadows sooner or later comes to light. That’s not a bad motto for CIOs in healthcare organizations who may be dealing…
“Who the hell is this person who practices medicine in Florida and has never run a health care system?” That was the complaint attributed to now ousted Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin during discussions regarding the adoption of a new Electronic Health Record system for the VA. According to Politico, negotiations with Cerner corporation…
“Gone fishin.” It’s easy to let your mind wander as winter turns to spring and the sun extends that perfect invitation to get out of the office and forget about life for a while. And then you glance back at your computer screen. “Gone phishing.” Your spam folder is filled with get rich quick schemes,…
One deals in bats and balls. The other manages bits and bytes. But when it comes to using statistics to drive organizational change, New York Yankees’ General Manager Brian Cashman and Temple Health Interim CTO Michael Feld couldn’t agree more. Cashman and Feld recently spoke to an audience of healthcare IT leaders in New York…
THE SKY IS FALLING (ON MY DATA CENTER!) If you’re like me, you’re about ready to throw something through the television set every time you see the words “Breaking News” flash across the screen. Our 24-hour news cycle has made those words a cliché and it’s getting hard to separate what is truly breaking news,…
Can healthcare learn something from the national pastime? As a CMO and former CMIO, I’ve spent the better part of my professional life looking at numbers and trying to wrestle with the enigma that has come to be known as Population Health. As a 2017 article in HealthIT Analytics so aptly titled it, “population health…
While the weatherman might not agree, spring has sprung and with it, the inevitable look behind that door that has been shut for months… the one where “I’ll deal with that later” has gone to hide! For those of us in IT, spring cleaning must go far beyond a hardware and software review. A…
You love it, you hate it, and you can’t live without it! Electronic Health Records. They are of course, a digital version of a patient’s paper chart. EHRs are real-time, patient-centered records that make information available instantly and securely to authorized users. That is, until you want to share that information outside your network. The ability (or inability!)…
The great comedian Sid Caesar said it best. “The guy who invented the wheel was an idiot. The guy that invented the other three…. he was a genius!” We must have been channeling our “inner Sid” when we published our recently released white paper, The Case for Cloud, detailing the path to developing a proper…
What’s driving your cloud strategy? Is it cost, business implications, training and people, or does is it ultimately come down to technology? While our philosophy for digital transformation centers in large part on restructuring an IT department to take advantage of the “un-siloed” personnel nature of cloud computing, this week’s blog takes a look at…