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Leadership lessons learned from James T. Kirk

March 12, 2012 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

Dr. John Halamka

Recently, Alex Knapp wrote a brilliant article entitled "Five Leadership Lessons From James T. Kirk" in Forbes.  For those of us who have watched every episode and can recite every line of dialog from memory, these 5 lessons are a great distillation of the series.

On April 29, I’m speaking at the American College of Physician Executives about Leading Innovation.   These same 5 points are a great framework for that event.

1. Never Stop Learning

Filed Under: News Well Tagged With: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Attesting to Meaningful Use quality measures

March 5, 2012 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

By John D. Halamka, MD

Dr. John Halamka

I was recently asked how eligible professionals should report the Meaningful Use Clinical Quality Measures if there are zero denominators (i.e. you do not have any hypertensives, adults, or patients with 2 or more visits in the measurement period).

Here’s the answer as I understand the regulations and FAQs:

Filed Under: Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Health Information Technology, News Well Tagged With: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Life as a Health Care CIO

Radiology image exchange

February 13, 2012 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

By John D. Halamka, MD

Dr. John Halamka

In my recent blog about the Standards Work Ahead in 2012, I called DICOM a non-standard standard.

This generated numerous email messages, phone calls, and blog comments.

Let me clarify what I meant.

Filed Under: Health Information Technology, News Well Tagged With: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Life as a Health Care CIO

The January HIT standards committee meeting

February 8, 2012 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

By John D. Halamka, MD

Dr. John Halamka

The January HIT Standards Committee focused on the first quarter goals – Quality Measurement, NwHIN Exchange implementation, and Value Sets/Vocabularies. 

Filed Under: Health Information Technology, News Well Tagged With: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Life as a Health Care CIO

The role of the CMIO

January 24, 2012 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

By John D. Halamka, MD

Dr. John Halamka

Although my business cards and my CV list the title Chief Information Officer, I was given the title Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) when I was hired at BIDMC in 1998.   Today, I serve three kinds of roles:

Filed Under: Health Information Technology, News Well Tagged With: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Life as a Health Care CIO

Accountable care organization measures

January 17, 2012 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

By John D. Halamka, MD

Dr. John Halamka

On December 19, CMS announced the selection of 32 Pioneer ACO organizations, five of which are Boston-based:  Beth Israel Deaconess, Mt. Auburn, Steward, Atrius, and Partners Healthcare.

Filed Under: Healthcare Reform, News Well Tagged With: Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Life as a Health Care CIO

Managing guest wireless

January 16, 2012 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

By John D. Halamka, MD

Dr. John Halamka

BIDMC has two million square feet of wireless coverage using over a thousand 802.11n/a/g access points. We operate two separate networks – a secure network for clinical applications and a guest network for visitors.

Filed Under: Health Information Technology, News Well Tagged With: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Life as a Health Care CIO

Cool technology of the week

January 12, 2012 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

By John D. Halamka, MD

Dr. John Halamka

Hundreds of healthcare IT professionals have offered their support to Kathy as she begins cancer treatment.

Several non-profits have contacted us with educational materials and helpful tools.

One of the most useful is the Cancer Planner from Cancer101.org . Cancer 101 provides the tools and resources that patients and caregivers need to make sense of the overwhelming information and difficult emotions that accompany a cancer diagnosis.

Filed Under: Blog, Digital Health, News Well, Oncology, Women's Health Tagged With: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Life as a Health Care CIO

Cool technology of the week

December 28, 2011 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

By John D. Halamka, MD

Dr. John Halamka

Many of my posts lately have described the challenge of securing and managing consumer devices brought from home. 

In the past, I’ve discussed the products from Good Technologies.

I recently polled the CIOs of Massachusetts hospitals and found two other products that are gaining traction – Fixmo and MobileIron

Filed Under: Health Information Technology, News Well Tagged With: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Life as a Health Care CIO

The standards work ahead in 2012

December 23, 2011 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

Dr. John Halamka

The December HIT Standards Committee included a discussion of the work ahead for the next year based on the priorities we’ve heard from stakeholders.    We’ll have 10 in person and 2 telephonic meetings in 2012.   Our topics by quarter will be as follows

Filed Under: Health Information Technology, News Well Tagged With: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

The 2011 IHI conference

December 13, 2011 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

Dr. John Halamka

Today I’m at the Institute for Health care Improvement Annual Forum in Orlando.

Every year, the keynote frames the state of health care in the US and the work ahead to make it better.

Maureen Bisognano delivered an energetic keynote that I would summarize as "join a community of motivated people and change the world"

Filed Under: Health Information Technology, Hospital Care, News Well Tagged With: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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