Healthcare Unbound 2008
Proprietary IT and business models are sources of competitive advantage.
Proprietary IT and business models are sources of competitive advantage.
Planning for change is critical.
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
There is special focus on workflow analysis.
The following is a continuation from the the Improving Patient Safety through Medical Device Interoperability and High Confidence Software joint workshop last week in Boston. I’ve got a bunch more notes that I’ll be tweaking and posting this week. This next bit is from a panel discussion that described the need for high confidence systems […]
Yesterday I was asked for some quick impressions of this year’s HIMSS. Now that I’ve had a bit of time to digest the event, here’s what I came up with. First, this show was much more of a business development/business alliance oriented show. Many vendors were openly partnering and had products in each other’s booths, […]
Did you run out of time too? I needed two more days for all the info I was hoping to get at HIMSS this year. This year a few of the publicity firms scheduled me for meetings with key people at a number of companies. To my interviewees, thanks so much for your time - […]
An old friend, Jim called today to bitch (in the nicest of ways) about the HIMSS show blogging done by yours truly and others. I also got a request from Dale H.
…could you blogger-attendees blog something about how HIMSS itself went, for those of us who couldn’t make it? I wasn’t able to get away […]
Okay, I’m a little late on my show updates. Tim at HIStalk has been much better with his daily updates, as has Will at the Candid CIO. I went to a lot of the educational sessions last year - they presented at a beginner or intermediate level, and the best part was the questions and […]
More interesting news dug up at the show today. Ventilator vendors don’t seem to get the whole connectivity thing yet. I think they’re spoiled by only having to serve up a serial interface to monitoring vendors in the ICU. Even a non invasive vent for use outside the ICU had no more than a serial […]