A secret shopper's perspectives on the EHR and clinical workflow
As someone who has practiced medicine using both paper and electronic records, and someone who's been focused on the health tech scene for the past 20 years, you might think I've seen it all. Indeed, during my 35 year career in medicine and tech I've traveled the world and learned a lot about healthcare, clinical practice and the intersection between medicine and technology. However, there's nothing like being a secret shopper to get a little reality check on where things stand with electronic health records and clinical workflow.
For the past couple of months, and likely continuing for most of th...
Source: HealthBlog - December 10, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: hlthblog Tags: Uncategorized AI analytics BI care quality Clinical Workflow Clinicians collaboration communication compliance doctors eHealth EHR electronic medical records EMR Health IT health reform Healthcare healthcare costs hea Source Type: blogs
A secret shopper ’s perspectives on the EHR and clinical workflow
As someone who has practiced medicine using both paper and electronic records, and someone who’s been focused on the health tech scene for the past 20 years, you might think I’ve seen it all. Indeed, during my 35 year career in medicine and tech I’ve traveled the world and learned a lot about healthcare, clinical practice and the intersection between medicine and technology. However, there’s nothing like being a secret shopper to get a little reality check on where things stand with electronic health records and clinical workflow.
For the past couple of months, and likely c...
Source: HealthBlog - December 10, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: hlthblog Tags: Uncategorized AI analytics BI care quality Clinical Workflow Clinicians collaboration communication compliance doctors eHealth EHR electronic medical records EMR Health IT health reform Healthcare healthcare costs hea Source Type: blogs
A secret shopper’s perspectives on the EHR and clinical workflow
As someone who has practiced medicine using both paper and electronic records, and someone who’s been focused on the health tech scene for the past 20 years, you might think I’ve seen it all. Indeed, during my 35 year career in medicine and tech I’ve traveled the world and learned a lot about healthcare, clinical practice and the intersection between medicine and technology. However, there’s nothing like being a secret shopper to get a little reality check on where things stand with electronic health records and clinical workflow.
For the past couple of months, and likely c...
Source: HealthBlog - December 10, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: hlthblog Tags: Uncategorized AI analytics BI care quality Clinical Workflow Clinicians collaboration communication compliance doctors eHealth EHR electronic medical records EMR Health IT health reform Healthcare healthcare costs hea Source Type: blogs
Three things hospitals and health systems need to do in 2016 and why
This is the time of year we all start making resolutions and predictions for the new year ahead. One of my fellow executives here at Microsoft asked me to respond to the following question: “If I could recommend 3 actions for health organizations to undertake in 2016, what would they be, and why?” Of course it is hard to come up with a list of just three things to do. Anyone who works in healthcare knows that the list is much longer than just three things. But, I thought I would share three things that are top of mind for me.
1. Put as much emphasis on improving and modernizing commun...
Source: HealthBlog - December 4, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: hlthblog Tags: Uncategorized care quality Clinical Workflow collaboration communication compliance EHR Electronic Medical Records. Louisville microsoft Office 665 patients physicians Security Skype for Business smartphone software telehea Source Type: blogs
Setting aside differences and embracing what connects us
It really is a new day at Microsoft. I cannot emphasize how much things have changed.
A significant part of my job at the company is doing what we call executive engagement. At our beautiful briefing center in Redmond, Washington, and at other locations around the world, I meet with customers to review Microsoft’s value proposition in health and the healthcare industry. This includes providing examples of Microsoft and partner solutions for cloud, mobility and devices, productivity and collaboration, and business and clinical analytics. I also spend time showing how Microsoft i...
Source: HealthBlog - December 1, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: hlthblog Tags: Uncategorized Android Apple Clinical Workflow Clinicians cloud collaboration communication dashboards doctors eHealth EHR electronic medical records EMR google healthcare costs HIT HoloLens Hospital Information Systems Source Type: blogs
Modernizing Communication and Collaboration in Healthcare
When I started my career at Microsoft nearly 14 years ago, I dreamed of the day when technology could deliver a total communication and collaboration solution for healthcare. Over the last decade I’ve observed pieces of that dream come together as information technology matured. It started with gradually improved technologies to deliver rich audio and video over internal and external networks. With those improvements came other tools to manage on-line connections, security, compliance, presence, telephony, desktop sharing, and collaboration. The user experience became more intuitive and ...
Source: HealthBlog - November 30, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: hlthblog Tags: Uncategorized analytics BI Clinical Workflow Clinicians clinics cloud collaboration communication compliance e-mail EMR Health IT healthcare costs hospitals Office 365 Security telemedicine video Windows Source Type: blogs
Pushing the pause button and being thankful
With the Thanksgiving Holiday fast approaching, I wanted to take a moment to let my readers know how much I have appreciated your patronage of HealthBlog over the years. I’ve been writing this blog since October of 2005 when my then manager here at Microsoft suggested that a blog might be a good way to communicate with clinicians, healthcare executives and IT professionals. Having had an extensive career working as a physician broadcaster in the television industry (for local, cable and network broadcasting companies) I first thought blogging might be a waste of time. I was used to communicating w...
Source: HealthBlog - November 5, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: hlthblog Tags: Uncategorized blogs broadcasting career family friends Health Health IT Healthcare ICT microsoft technology television Thanksgiving Windows Source Type: blogs
Bendigo Health, building a cloud first, mobile first health platform of the future
This morning I had the distinct pleasure of spending an hour with Danny Lindrea, solutions architect at Bendigo Health. Mr. Lindrea came to Microsoft in Redmond to meet some of the members of our worldwide health team and share information on how Bendigo is advancing information communications technologies (ICT) using Microsoft and Microsoft partner services, products, and solutions. In fact, Bendigo may very well be developing the ICT “health platform” of the future.
Bendigo Health has been servicing the Loddon Mallee region of Victoria, Australia, for over 150 years. The s...
Source: HealthBlog - November 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: hlthblog Tags: Uncategorized Azure care quality Clinical Workflow cloud collaboration doctors eHealth EHR electronic medical records EMR Health IT healthcare costs Healthcare IT HIT hospitals ICT information technology Intersystems Source Type: blogs
What doctors aren't learning in medical school, and what needs to be done about it
I came across the most wonderful article today on ForbesBrandVoice by athenahealth contributor, Dr. Stephen Klasko. The article, What Doctors Aren't Learning In Medical School And Why It Matters, touches on a theme that has been near and dear to me over the course of my own medical career--the importance of communication and collaboration in healthcare.
Dr. Klasko has intimate knowledge about education, doctors and medical students. He is the President and CEO of the highly regarded Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health in Philadelphia. In the article, he cites some of the findings from athenahealth's ninth "Ep...
Source: HealthBlog - October 20, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: hlthblog Tags: Uncategorized Clinical Workflow clinics cloud collaboration communication compliance Digital Health Days doctors e-mail eHealth hospitals internet microsoft Office 365 Skype for Business Yammer Source Type: blogs
What doctors aren ’t learning in medical school, and what needs to be done about it
I came across the most wonderful article today on ForbesBrandVoice by athenahealth contributor, Dr. Stephen Klasko. The article, What Doctors Aren’t Learning In Medical School And Why It Matters, touches on a theme that has been near and dear to me over the course of my own medical career–the importance of communication and collaboration in healthcare.
Dr. Klasko has intimate knowledge about education, doctors and medical students. He is the President and CEO of the highly regarded Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health in Philadelphia. In the article, he cites some of the findings from athenahealth&...
Source: HealthBlog - October 20, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: hlthblog Tags: Uncategorized Clinical Workflow clinics cloud collaboration communication compliance Digital Health Days doctors e-mail eHealth hospitals internet microsoft Office 365 Skype for Business Yammer Source Type: blogs
What doctors aren’t learning in medical school, and what needs to be done about it
I came across the most wonderful article today on ForbesBrandVoice by athenahealth contributor, Dr. Stephen Klasko. The article, What Doctors Aren’t Learning In Medical School And Why It Matters, touches on a theme that has been near and dear to me over the course of my own medical career–the importance of communication and collaboration in healthcare.
Dr. Klasko has intimate knowledge about education, doctors and medical students. He is the President and CEO of the highly regarded Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health in Philadelphia. In the article, he cites some of the findings from athenahealth&...
Source: HealthBlog - October 20, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: hlthblog Tags: Uncategorized Clinical Workflow clinics cloud collaboration communication compliance Digital Health Days doctors e-mail eHealth hospitals internet microsoft Office 365 Skype for Business Yammer Source Type: blogs
Reinventing and moving beyond the EHR. The proof is all around us.
HealthITNews reports that at least one popular EHR vendor (eClinicalWorks) is launching the flagship version of its cloud service solution by saying, “Don’t call it an EHR”. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised by that as the latest EHR satisfaction survey from the AMA and Medscape shows that while EHR adoption by physicians has surpassed 80 percent, clinician satisfaction with EHRs over the last several years has plummeted.
Although widespread physician frustration and dissatisfaction with electronic health record solutions isn’t a good sign, the effect it is having...
Source: HealthBlog - October 19, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: hlthblog Tags: Uncategorized analytics Azure care quality Clinical Workflow Clinicians cloud collaboration Dartmouth Hitchcock dashboards EHR Electronic Medical Records. Louisville EMR Health IT Healthcare healthcare costs Healthcare IT Source Type: blogs
Health Information Exchange (HIE). A recipe that just might work.
If there is anything that plagues the health industry and severely damages the value proposition for information technology in healthcare, it is the dismal failure to achieve system interoperability and perhaps more importantly, health information exchange. No matter how elegant an individual clinic’s or hospitals’ or health system’s electronic health record solution might be, the value of the patient data these systems capture is significantly diminished if it cannot be reliably shared with those who need to see it and use it. That would include not only other ...
Source: HealthBlog - October 12, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: hlthblog Tags: Uncategorized accessibility analytics Azure Clinicians cloud collaboration compliance doctors eHealth EHR Electronic Medical Records. Louisville EMR health information exchange Health IT Healthcare healthcare costs health Source Type: blogs
Unabashedly addicted to my Surface Pro 3 at home, at work and on the road
HealthBlog readers, and even those who don’t read HealthBlog, know that I am unabashedly a fan of the Microsoft Surface Pro 3. As I have proclaimed here before, my Surface Pro 3 is the best computing device I have ever used. I don’t say that lightly,...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - January 27, 2015 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
A framework for embracing cloud in health and healthcare
Last week, I shared information about the progress we are making on Windows 10 and some really cool new technologies, like HoloLens , that I believe will have a significant impact in health and medicine down the line. This week, I’d like to focus on something...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - January 26, 2015 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
