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Effective health IT execs must communicate, motivate colleagues
Between Meaningful Use, HIPAA updates and ICD-10, hospital technology executives are hardly at a loss to fill time these days. Still, both chief information officers and chief medical informatics
Hospital CIO Stephen Stewart: Don't bet your career on an ICD-10 reprieve
Stephen Stewart, CIO of Henry County Health Center in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, says his organization isn't waiting around to see if the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services really will delay the
Blogger: Make Meaningful Use go away
Wouldn't it be nice if Meaningful Use to go the way of the dinosaur? That's the sentiment Health IT consultant John Lynn, author of the EMR and HIPAA blog, who laments in that Meaningful Use
Management advice abounds for healthcare technology leaders
The years ahead will be challenging ones for healthcare chief information officers and chief medical information officers. Their calendars are chock full of deadlines, their to-do lists full. There
As more big corporations board the mHealth bus, who's driving?
When multi-billion-dollar corporate giants start seriously eyeing mobile healthcare as the key to their next big market move, should hospital CIOs be excited or scared? Health systems already are
Don't delay converting to ICD-10
It may seem far off now, but don't expect the Oct. 1, 2013 deadline for ICD-10 conversion to change. No matter where you are in the process, make sure to do an assessment to get a better handle on
The rise of the CIO rock star
In this column, I've touched upon the notion that the rule of a CIO in healthcare is of necessity changing, as health IT initiatives--especially EMRs--are thrown into the public spotlight. For
CIO status rising as health IT projects become central
With state and federal legislators, employers and health plans clamoring to see health organizations adopt more and better health IT, the status of CIOs who must get the job done has risen, according
