For Now, It’s iPhone Over Android

I currently carry a Samsung Infuse  Android phone. It is an AT&T phone that I have had for about a year. I am ready to replace it and I have been wrestling between the new Samsung Galaxy SIII and an iPhone. The reviews of the SIII are tempting. The specs are impressive (quad core graphics, [...]

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Sandboxing’s Potential To Empower Bring Your Own Device Policies

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 [...]

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Gary Barnes, CIO, Medical Center Health System, Chapter 2

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”

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Tracking Apple’s Healthcare Journey

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 & [...]

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Christopher Scanzera, CIO, AtlantiCare, Chapter 2

Christopher Scanzera, VP/CIO, AtlantiCare Health System

ACO presentation
Leveraging consulting experience
Prepping for ICD-10
BYOD — iPhones, iPads, etc.
Reflecting on one year with AtlantiCare

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Allana Cummings, CIO, Northeast Georgia Health System, Chapter 2

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

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David Bradshaw, Chief Information/Planning/Marketing Officer, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Chapter 2

The Memorial Herman Information Exchange
DICOM Grid for image sharing
The importance of disseminating IT success stories — “If you’re not selling, you’re dead”
Project prioritization is everything
Mastering the Apple — iPhones, iPads, etc. “It’s a tsunami moving through our industry”

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John Halamka, M.D., CIO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chapter 2

Thoughts on the HIT Policy Committee
Why the HIT Standards Committee is “Camelot”
Advice for furthering CPOE and electronic documentation
Hospital/physician practice integration
Tackling quality measures

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