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Just curious

on May 14, 2010 by admin in Uncategorized, Comments (0)

Is it me, or does HealthLeaders have a new IT editor every other month?

IBM i Access 7.1 installation hangs indefinitively with a Windows Installer Coordinator window

on May 7, 2010 by admin in Uncategorized, Comments (1)

If you’re trying to install IBM i Access 7.1 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 based Remote Desktop Session Host (RDS), formerly known as Terminal Server, you’ll most likely encounter this issue.
A window titled “Windows Installer Coordinator” will pop up behind the IBM i Access 7.1 Installer (hidden until you click on it in the [...]

Media coverage of health IT

on May 6, 2010 by admin in Uncategorized, Comments (1)

Regular readers know I’ve not been shy about criticizing other media when they misunderstand health IT. Possibly because of my outspokenness, the Reporting on Health project at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication asked me to write a piece to help other journalists cover health IT and EHRs.

Three months after I turned it in, my story is finally up. I’ve also included a glossary of key terminology that I hope helps stop the confusion between EMRs, EHRs and PHRs, particularly the use of heinous terms like “personal electronic medical records.”

If I reach just one local news reporter, I’ll feel like I’ve succeeded.

TMG 2010 seems to be still in Beta

on April 27, 2010 by admin in Uncategorized, Comments (1)

Our apprentice is doing an a project for his final exams (IPA). For that, we’ve chosen to replace our current Exchange 2007 Edge with a Forefront TMG 2010 / Exchange 2010 Edge combination.
As the project progressed, we’ve found a few extremely irritating and hard-to-debug issues, which needed my involvement to figure out the root cause [...]

Slides from my UMB presentation

on April 23, 2010 by admin in Uncategorized, Comments (0)

As you may have heard, I gave a keynote presentation on Wednesday at the University of Maryland-Baltimore Health Sciences and Human Services Library’s “@Hand Symposium on Mobile Technologies in Medicine and Academia.” It’s not something I’ve done a lot of, but feedback has been positive. I’m still waiting to see the audience evaluations, though.

I understand the whole symposium was streamed live on the Web–something I didn’t know until after the fact. I also wasn’t aware that there was a video camera in the room, since it apparently was hidden in the same drop-down compartment that holds the video projector.

UMB is in the process of archiving the video and will make it available for streaming on the symposium site, probably sometime next week. In the meantime, here is a PDF of my slides.

Thanks to Hello Health co-founder Dr. Sean Khozin, Dr. Andrew Barbash of Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md., Peter Waegemann of the mHealth Initiative, Dr. Steven Lane and Dr. Enoch Choi of Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Michele Guthrie of the West Wireless Healthcare Institute and Joyce Lofstrom of HIMSS for providing me with photos and graphics for the presentation. And, of course, a big thanks to the staff of the Health Sciences and Human Services Library for inviting me. Unfortunately, the library’s executive director, M.J. Tooey, was stranded in Italy thanks to the cloud of volcanic ash that covered much of Europe this week.

Nitpicking? Nah, the legal technicalities are important here

on April 16, 2010 by admin in Uncategorized, Comments (0)

I received an e-mail this week about “a mobile technology platform that just announced its full HIPAA/HITECH compliancy.”

I’d like to know, how exactly can technology be HIPAA-compliant? Technology can’t be a covered entity or a business associate, and therefore isn’t subject to HIPAA, right?

New West Wireless CMO has interesting family ties

on April 7, 2010 by admin in Uncategorized, Comments (0)

I just interviewed Dr. Joe Smith, the new chief medical and science officer of the West Wireless Health Institute in La Jolla, Calif. Although his background is in engineering and pharma, he’s got good genes for someone moving into health IT. His sister is Stephanie Reel, CIO of Johns Hopkins University.

TechDays 2010 Basel will be the last that I have attended

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Today marks the second and last day of TechDays 2010 in Basel.
I have attended TechDays 05, 06, 07, 08 and 2010. While i’ve always had something complain about, there was always something to gain from attending. Not this time.
When reading this, keep in mind that i’ve only attended IT Pro Sessions (with the exception of [...]

Health Wonk Review: Reform edition

on April 1, 2010 by admin in Uncategorized, Comments (1)

Though I don’t really think the “historic,” recently enacted legislation on health insurance is true “reform,” the latest edition of Health Wonk Review, hosted by Rich Elmore at Healthcare Technology News, focuses on this subject. (Elmore has several images of pigs flying. I’ll have more later on why I don’t think this is such a landmark event.)

My column in FierceHealthIT about the implications for health IT with Don Berwick being chosen to head CMS is one of the posts reviewed. I guess that makes me a wonk.