Budgeting and project prioritization
The importance of 100 percent wireless coverage
Empowering clinicians through BYOD
Bill Byers, VP/CIO, Western Maryland Health System, Chapter 2
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Sandboxing’s Potential To Empower Bring Your Own Device Policies
11/28/2011 By Leave a Comment
A couple of years ago, we separated our “technology division” into two groups: IT Engineering and IT Operations. The dividing line between the two is the production environment. Any new technology is architected by our Engineering group before it goes into production. Once something is in production it belongs to IT Operations and it cannot [...]
iPads Have Much Potential, But Significant Challenges Remain
11/11/2011 By 1 Comment
Who knew that an article entitled, “iPads in Healthcare: Not So Fast” — including quotes from my trusted CTO, Wes Wright — would cause such a stir. I’ve seen tweets, facebook posts, comments on Linked-In, and rebroadcasts of portions of the article in other articles. Most of the stuff I’ve read has been negative-ish about [...]
Gary Barnes, CIO, Medical Center Health System, Chapter 2
11/08/2011 By Leave a Comment
The HIT workforce shortage
Instituting a project management group that meets weekly — tradeoffs and prioritization
Running a McKesson 10.3 shop
MU stage 2
Upgrade downtime: “I see the frustration among the physicians”
Tracking Apple’s Healthcare Journey
11/08/2011 By Leave a Comment
Apple has been in the news with some amazing ups and down recently: • Surpassing Exxon Mobile to be the largest U.S. company in market cap. For those of you wise enough to avoid the perils of Wall Street, “market cap” = market capitalization, or share price times number of shares, which in Apple & [...]
Christopher Scanzera, CIO, AtlantiCare, Chapter 2
10/31/2011 By Leave a Comment
ACO presentation
Leveraging consulting experience
Prepping for ICD-10
BYOD — iPhones, iPads, etc.
Reflecting on one year with AtlantiCare
Allana Cummings, CIO, Northeast Georgia Health System, Chapter 2
10/18/2011 By Leave a Comment
Embedding clinicians in the IT department
The value of taking a “Technical timeout”
When it’s time to get everyone on the (phone) line
Taking an ethnographic approach to workflow analysis
iPads, iPhones and developing a BYOD strategy
iPad Penetration At 80%? Methinks Not
10/10/2011 By Leave a Comment
On October 4 Apple’s CEO said: “Over 80% of the top hospitals in the US are now testing, or piloting, the iPad.” This statement is a little misleading. Firstly, he said “testing or piloting.” What is the number of hospitals that are actually buying and deploying iPads to use with their core clinical applications? I [...]
