Health Management Technology: All Blogs

Who you callin' fat!?

By Phil Colpas, Managing Editor, on April 22, 2013
Let’s face it: Our collective health as a species has been mostly on the decline since we hit our personal, post-Industrial Revolution zenith; quite recently, in fact, when Homo sapiens boasted...
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HMT named one of '100 Health Care Organizations to Watch in 2013'

By Phil Colpas, Managing Editor, on March 22, 2013
Sometimes in life, it feels appropriate to toot one’s own horn, so to speak. So if you will permit me, now is one of those times. MHAprograms.org...
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How to KISS

By Phil Colpas, Editor, on January 29, 2013
It’s no secret that the world of healthcare IT is laden and littered with a veritable plethora of acronyms: EHR, MU, HIE, RAC, RCM … ad nauseum. If we can attach an acronym to a term,...
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HMT editor named to healthcare IT influencers list

By Phil Colpas, Editor, on January 2, 2013
A couple of weeks ago, I was delighted to learn that Schwartz MSL had included me on its list of the top 25 healthcare IT reporters in the country. Also on the list were representatives from several...
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Network management: What becomes possible with integration

By James Evans, VP, financial and network management, McKesson Health Solutions, on December 20, 2012
As I’ve written about in the first two parts of this series, network management must be retooled if health plans and their provider network are to meet the cost, quality, and...
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Survey to determine impact of EMRs on doctor/patient interaction

By Phil Colpas, Editor, on November 21, 2012
Software Advice specializes in researching and reviewing software...
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Network management: Advancing to the starting line

By James Evans, VP, claims performance, McKesson Health Solutions, on October 31, 2012
In medieval Europe, monasteries were filled with diligent monks who carefully copied, codified and filed the knowledge of antiquity. In health plans today, a comparably impressive...
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Change management, technology and CDS: a holistic approach to HAI

By Stephen Claypool, M.D., on October 30, 2012
The recent death of 12-year-old Rory Stauton generated a firestorm of media coverage that thrust sepsis and the challenges it presents to the healthcare system into the national...
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A community built on wellness

By Phil Colpas, Editor, on October 25, 2012
I’m normally not a huge fan of master-planned neighborhoods, preferring instead a house surrounded by lots of trees and native plants at the dead end of a dirt road. However, Orlando’s Lake Nona...
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Network management: Why major change is on the way

By Jim Evans, VP, financial and network performance, McKesson Health Solutions, on October 8, 2012
In recent years, network management has been somewhat overlooked as a function and considered more administrative than strategic. With healthcare reform, however, value-based networks...
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HMT celebrates 32 years

By Phil Colpas, Managing Editor, on September 25, 2012
Tradition is an important part of any culture, the bedrock upon which a foundation is built. In business, tradition can dictate the lay of the land, help determine its appearance and establish parameters that will hopefully nurture...
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Better health begins with better understanding

By Phil Colpas, Managing Editor, on September 5, 2012
As the U.S. healthcare model changes from rewarding for quantity to rewarding for quality, disease management is projected to be one of the fastest-growing segments in the industry, with healthcare IT vendors scrambling for a piece of...
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Smiling staff means a healthier hospital

By Phil Colpas, Editor, on August 21, 2012
We’ve all heard the mantra: Keep your employees happy, and you’ll see positive results via increased productivity, ideas that are more creative and an ownership-of-product mentality, regardless of what that product might...
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When will healthcare IT actually improve the patient experience?

By Phil Colpas, Managing Editor, on July 26, 2012
Did you ever get the feeling that no one even looks at the reams of paperwork we’re forced to fill out each and every time we visit a medical facility? See if this scenario sounds familiar: You enter your doctor’s...
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The same old job spec? Not really

By Jim Gibson, on May 25, 2012
I spent part of last week in southern California, the center of the rapidly emerging wireless health sector. It was an enlightening week, and it got me thinking about how we develop job specs and what we expect from our executives. Let me connect the dots. I had an interesting discussion with one of the major players, a man directly and...
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Balance, Part Two…A “Prince” Retires

By Jim Gibson, on December 21, 2010
My last post was about striving for a sense of balance between our work and non-work lives. More importantly, how we bring a sense of humanity into the workplace. If you've been fortunate enough to encounter a true role model at some point in your career, there's a good chance this person understood that. He or she was probably the...
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Balance

By Jim Gibson, on September 13, 2010
I'm writing this late on Sunday afternoon of Labor Day weekend. It's peaceful and serene and the weather in the northeast is just about perfect. I'm sitting in a rocker on my front porch savoring a good cigar with my favorite dog at my side. He's working on his eighth nap of the day, and I'm enjoying the peace and quiet,...
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Let's walk in their shoes

By Jim Gibson, on May 19, 2010
By Jim Gibson More and more bloggers and trade press reporters are writing about the tightening HIT labor market. It's becoming clear that we're entering a period of intense competition for HIT talent. Yet it doesn't feel that way to everyone. U.S. unemployment remains stubbornly high and many people, even in HIT,...
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Here Comes Spring

By Jim Gibson, on February 8, 2010
Even though our friends in the Mid-Atlantic don't feel it right now, the arrival of HIMSS reminds us that spring can't be too far behind. And with spring come more trade shows, user group meetings, and...
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A New Year: Time to Raise the Antenna

By Jim Gibson, on January 8, 2010
"Thank goodness I have a job." A sentiment often felt when a recession hits. As belts are tightened, budgets slashed, and colleagues laid off, many take solace in knowing they've been spared. Issues like job...
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The HCIT Labor Shortage. WHAT??

By Jim Gibson, on November 9, 2009
It's no secret that someone hit the "pause" button. As the economy has tanked, hospital and physician IT contracts have stalled. Projects with prior commitments have mostly proceeded, but at a slower, drawn out...
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