My neighbor, a physician, installed an EMR this year to qualify for Meaningful Use. He has given up the clipboard in favor of a laptop to expedite data entry into this EMR. He has also give up looking his patient’s in the eye while doing rounds. Instead, he’s heads down, keying data into the laptop […]
Mike Jenkins
Mike Jenkins has over 25 years of experience architecting, developing, and implementing solutions for organizations in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Mike is experienced in healthcare, finance, defense, manufacturing, training, and retail industries. Some of Mike’s healthcare projects include: developing a core measures proactive monitoring system; developing an eHealth strategy for a growing community hospital; implementing transparent pricing and outcomes measurement solutions; automating clinical and administrative tasks through forms automation; connecting multiple healthcare systems through a common patient portal; and developing an electronic medical record application. He designed the Physician’s Portal and Secure Messaging Product for one of the top-five vendors in clinical information systems. His application development experience includes Amalga, CPOE, Clinical Portals, Patient Portals, Secure Messaging, HIM, Interoperability, and NEDSS for State level health departments. He is a Project Management Professional (PMP), a Certified Rational Consultant (RMUC), a LEAN Black Belt, and a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS). He is fluent in most methodologies and teaches the PMP Certification course in Atlanta.
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Are you “Fed” up?
Michael Planchart, my colleague, posted a blog a few days ago about the Fed’s decision to delay the ICD-10 implementation deadline. He makes some great points and I don’t completely disagree with his view that the delay will have negative impacts. Michael asks, “Could someone please explain to me why we should halt any national […]
Intelligence Goes Mobile
I want to discuss how easy it has become to take desktop applications to the floor of HIMSS 2012. Health BI is a comprehensive healthcare analytics solution with over 600 key performance indicators, ONC certification for Meaningful Use and a real-time intelligence engine that reevaluates patient compliance each time the data is refreshed. This was […]
Why would I care about an ACO?
I heard this question while wandering around the HIMSS conference. It made me pause and think. The healthcare system in the US is designed to fix problems after they occur. Payments are made this way and patients are, with few exceptions, accustomed to waiting until something is really painful, bloody, or non-functioning before they seek […]
Are you sick of Meaningful Use?
The theme from physicians, CIOs, CMIOs, and other sundry healthcare professionals at HIMSS is consistent. Qualifying for Meaningful Use is taking up all our spare time. MU initiatives are usurping staff and delaying other projects. Many say they would like for it to just go away, but they also realize the more good, reliable, and […]
Oh, Say Can You ONC?
Providers and patients should be comfortable that their Health IT systems are secure, confidential, play well with other systems and functional. To enable this, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act has appointed the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) as the certifying body that blesses each […]
Does your data pass the Snopes test?
If you are reading this blog, you are a heavy internet user. While browsing, you have probably run across several statements of fact that were later proven to be false. Most of you also know about Snopes.com, a website that claims to be the “definitive internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and […]