CMIO PODCAST

This week I cover 6 articles from the HealthIT space. Two are editorials written by doctors about their dislike of Epic. Optum buys...

News review for the week: A 312 page report from the National Academy of Medicine on clinician burnout makes into the Washington Post...

Does the Information Blocking Rule in the 21st Century Cures act basically require systems to release their provider notes via their...

Lots of activity from HHS this week. I review the proposed rule change to the Stark law which has significant impact for CMIOs. Also,...

Today I review the news about how Providence/St. Joe's tackled master data management for their 20,000 provider network, some tech...

This week I cover the new FDA guidance for CDS tools, the new CMS rule for reducing burdens in healthcare, Yale's experience with cost...

This week I cover recent studies about medication alerts, the latest hospital taken down by ransomware, a physicians impact on patient...

This week I picked 2 articles about telehealth, 2 on AI, one about hospital coding, and I wrap it up by highlighting the Becker's column...

Cerner lays off some people in an effort to maintain 22% margins, physicians write more narcotics late in the day or when they run...

This week I cover ZocDoc for online scheduling (why do we need this?), a fancy new command center in Orlando, price transparency, and...

Are your pneumonia order sets up to date? I review the latest Annals article on the duration of antibiotics for CAP. Also, Verona...

I cover the Health IT news for the week that CMIOs should be made aware. In the beginning of the episode I ask a question about how you...

A few stories CMIOs should know about including what Cerner is doing in the pop health research space with Duke, What the c-suite knows...

Do you have a strategy to counter a second opinion clinic that is virtually popping up to syphon off your highest margin patients? In...

This week in the news I cover the UHS settlement with the DOJ, the Senate advancing a drug pricing bill, How Ascension got 100,000...

5 articles from the week that I read and found interesting from a CMIO perspective. John Sculley wrote a piece in Fortune about remote...

3 news stories and my list of 7 rants. 1) We do what is hard for IT if it makes it easier for the clinician. 2) We train our clinicians...

I cover 5 things in the news this week that I think CMIOs should follow. 1) The Microsoft and Providence St. Joseph Health partnership...