Last November, I blogged from the NextGen UGM and it was a huge success. As travel budgets are increasingly cut back, fewer of our friends in the Healthcare IT community are able to attend large conferences. However, much of the information we need to plan for the future is shared only in these meetings (which [...]

The keynote speaker for Microsoft HUG was Uday Ali Pabrai, CEO. He spoke about his concerns over the huge vulnerabilities in the healthcare IT industry around security.
Pabrai listed 7 real examples where information was disclosed through theft and mistakes, which led to the total of about 1,000,000 cases of medical identity theft in America each [...]

The next presenter was Ted Corbett from Seattle Childrens’ Hospital who presented on using Amalga to tie disparate systems together. At Seattle Childrens’, no one system holds information for all systems so it’s not possible to review data from more than one system at a time (eg patient satisfaction versus number of bed changes). Their [...]

Brighton Hospital, a drug rehabilitation hospital located in southeast Michigan that provides inpatient, outpatient, and long-term transitional housing programs, could not locate an EMR that met their needs. Instead of changing their workflow, they chose to partner with Medical Communication Systems (MCS) to develop a custom EMR. Since implementing limited functionality in October 2008 they [...]

Andrew Neslon, Executive Director of HealthPartners Research, presented on the history of PHRs, their current definitions, and test cases with Carlson Companies and Willmar, MN. Since the session is at MSHUG, the focus was on HealthVault.
Nelson explained that everyone in the medical industry (consumers, health providers, industry, health plans, FDA, pharma, governments, CMS, military) are [...]

For the first afternoon session, there was not a session that really piqued my interest. But one of the speakers was from the UCLA Medical Center and the smartest people in the world go to school at UCLA (it’s my alma mater), so I decided to go.
Dr. Val Nenov demonstrated his verbal order entry system [...]

For the second afternoon session, I was excited to attending a session entitled “Integration of a Comprehensive Medical and Dental EMR System with Microsoft HealthVault Using Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft Health Common User Interface”. I didn’t realize, however, that I was walking into a commercial for ushealthrecord. After getting past my initial frustration, I was [...]

Yes, its 8:30am (6:30am Pacific Time) on a Sunday morning and I’m sitting in a session on ICD-10. Life as a healthcare IT consultant is all party, all the time!
Lorraine Tunis Doo, Senior Policy Advisor for E Health Policy at CMS, began the session discussing the reason for switching to 5010 standard for communication by [...]

I was eager to attend the CCHIT Roundtable. CCHIT holds incredible pull over the EHR industry in determining the path for future product development. This power will increase exponentially if CCHIT is selected as the certification required for the HITECH Act.
CCHIT has been the subject of much criticism lately, including frustration over a certifying body [...]

Oh, my naivety makes me laugh sometimes. I went to the Health 2.0 Roundtable thinking I would hear some exciting ideas about how social networking is being used in healthcare. Instead, it was like watching my parents talk about “myface” (yes, that was said several times!). I’m not a Web 2.0 elitist by any means; [...]