The quality of clinical data isn’t where it should be, due to inconsistencies in data capture and a lack of standardization, said our panelists. During a recent webinar, they discussed the key factors in determining data quality, and shared strategies for ensuring data are more consistent and accurate.
“Go to the Source”: Clinical Leaders Share Best Practices for Improving Data Quality
Why These Five Leaders Are Grateful
Data breaches. Mergers and acquisitions. Meaningful Use. HIPAA audits. Budget cuts. In the healthcare IT industry, it’s pretty easy to get caught up in all the negativity, particular for the leaders who are being asked to do more and more with fewer resources. But as someone who has had a front row seat in watching […]
Leadership in the Participation Age
First things, first, I want to acknowledge fellow-Coloradoan Chuck Blakeman for inspiring me to write this blog. His philosophies about business leadership resonate with me, and much of the content below is a direct reflection of his insights. For years, I’ve thought that my philosophies about corporate culture and beliefs were too unusual to practice openly, but […]
Bring A Laptop To Your Next Doctor’s Appointment
When I started teaching at Northwestern in 2005, it had been a quite a few years since I’d been in an academic setting for anything other than guest lectures. In the time that had expired towards 2005, the students all had laptops and the classrooms had WiFi. I thought the student were taking notes and […]
Eleven Habits of Passionate People
Most of this blog and much of the inspiration originally appeared in LifeHack, one of my favorite web sites, written by Sarah Hansen, one of my favorite writers. I made a few edits and added one more entry — passionate people have a sense of humor. There are a number of clinical studies in the field […]
Five Rules For A Successful Recognition Program
Awards and recognition programs for teammates and employees are a critically important aspect of an organization’s culture. But it’s not difficult for them to have the opposite intended effect, by recognizing employees who don’t deserve it, failing to recognize those who do, or losing the sincerity of the recognition altogether — that is, going through […]
Top Blogs Of 2014
From the Ebola outbreak to the changes in ONC leadership to (yet another) ICD-10 delay, 2014 provided a great deal of fodder, and our bloggers proved they were up to the task by providing excellent content. And while there were numerous topics that resonated with our audience, what really seemed to make an impression were […]
Data Warehouses and Disease Surveillance — What Can We Do Now?
So what do we do in the near term? Is there anything we can do, realistically, to better track the progress of diseases like Ebola, given our existing ecosystem of information systems in healthcare? As you can see from the list below, we could do better than nothing and the existing state of affairs, but any current […]
Disease Monitoring and Data Warehouses
We could easily justify a 30-page paper on this topic, but I don’t have time for that, so while it’s hot, I’m going to offer a few thoughts and observations on disease surveillance based upon my experience in the trenches of healthcare data. I hope that others with similar experiences will share your thoughts by submitting […]