Budgeting and project prioritization
The importance of 100 percent wireless coverage
Empowering clinicians through BYOD
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 […]
iPads Have Much Potential, But Significant Challenges Remain
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
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 & […]
Christopher Scanzera, CIO, AtlantiCare, Chapter 2
Allana Cummings, CIO, Northeast Georgia Health System, Chapter 2
iPad Penetration At 80%? Methinks Not
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 […]
David Bradshaw, Chief Information/Planning/Marketing Officer, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Chapter 3
Wearing three hats — information, marketing and planning
Battling the HIT workforce shortage
A vendor neutral archive for the image gateway, iPad integration
Online appointment scheduling — “Can healthcare make the leap to what the airline industry has done?”
The hard part — “Maintaining a sane, sensible workload for the team”