Sat, 24 May 2008
The just-completed Towards an Electronic Patient Record (TEPR) conference featured the unveiling of the TEPR Cell Phone Project, an eight-month effort to study and prove the efficacy of the mobile phone as a hub of interoperability in healthcare. (You can read my Digital HealthCare & Productivity story about the project here.)
The Medical Records Institute, which puts on TEPR, is partnering with AllOne Health Group, a Wilkes-Barre, Pa.-based health and wellness services provider, to conduct this test of bottom-up, consumer-controlled health information exchange. The study begins June 1, and results will be released at TEPR 2009 next February.
During Monday’s TEPR Cell Phone Project press conference, I peppered AllOne executives with some tough questions about their plans, and was not shy about voicing my skepticism about personal health records. In a rare show of tact on my part, I did so without offending anyone. In fact, Frank Avignone, director of business and sales development for AllOne Health subsidiary AllOne Mobile, agreed to join me the following day to record this podcast. Podcast details: Interview with Frank Avignone, director of business and sales development, AllOne Mobile, about the TEPR Cell Phone Interoperability Project. Recorded May 20, 2008. MP3, mono, 64 kbps, 10.8 MB. Running time 23:37 0:54 Background on the company and its technology Comments[0] |
Fri, 7 March 2008 For me, the highlight of HIMSS ’07 was my podcast interview with Jonathan Bush of athenahealth. It was so much fun, he agreed to sit down with me again at this year’s HIMSS conference. I’m hoping this can become a regular occurrence. We get full of ourselves at several points and get way off topic at times, but it was taped on the last morning of HIMSS and everyone’s a little loopy by then. Even the technical glitch—my microphone being off for a few seconds—didn’t affect the outcome, other than to provide a good laugh or three. Podcast details: Interview with Jonathan Bush, president and CEO of athenahealth, recorded Feb. 28, 2008, in Orlando, Fla. MP3, mono, 64 kbps, 18.9 MB, running time 41:17. 0:35 The cult of Mr. HIStalk 1:25 Is Cerner pulling out of HIMSS? 2:25 Disruptive technologies 2:50 Why software is dead 4:25 Why other companies still sell software 6:30 The "dead zone" around the Orange County Convention Center 8:15 Chief athenista Todd Park and future plans for the company 10:15 athena’s lingo 12:10 Success of eClinicalWorks based on selling software 14:10 Google Health, the next Segway? 16:05 Google Health vs. Microsoft HealthVault and other PHRs 18:00 Why existing PHRs are not much better than Microsoft Word 19:00 How athenahealth could help with PHRs 20:40 PHRs need something to do 21:15 Could Google give doctors leverage with health plans? 23:55 Trust issues 24:45 Risk vs. reward for sharing health information 26:05 athena’s API for linking to PHRs 27:25 Why e-commerce works in other industries 28:35 What doctors need 29:25 Carrot vs. stick: cash, options or control 31:10 Opportunity for doctors to take back disease management from payers 33:00 How to reach physician practices 33:40 Targeting smaller practices 34:55 Opportunities with enterprise customers 36:15 Partnership with Eclipsys and the seeds of RHIOs 39:40 Slight technical glitch, and concluding remarks Comments[0] |
Sun, 24 February 2008 ORLANDO, Fla.—Here’s a podcast that’s been a year in the making. Actually, it was a year plus an hour and a half. Last year in New Orleans, I had a lively, hour-long conversation with HIMSS President and CEO Steve Lieber that was supposed to be for a podcast, but the recording didn’t work. On Saturday, I showed up at the appointed hour for another sit-down with Lieber, and realized I’d forgotten my recorder back at my hotel, so we rescheduled for about 90 minutes later. Well, the third time was a charm, and the result is this podcast, a lively, half-hour-long conversation with Steve Lieber, just ahead of the opening of the annual HIMSS conference. Podcast details: Interview with Steve Lieber at HIMSS ’08. MP3, mono, 64kbps, 13.8 MB. Running time 30:10. 0:30 Expected attendance of 27,000+ Comments[0] |
Thu, 29 November 2007 From the Department of Better Late Than Never comes this podcast with Nick Jacobs, CEO of Windber Medical Center in Windber, Pa., who's well known in some circles for being perhaps the first hospital chief in the country to write his own blog. Nick's Blog has been around since May 2005, and Jacobs also contributes to Hospital Impact and to the World Health Care Blog. Paul Levy at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston has been writing his blog since August 2006. (I've got them both beat, as my blog dates to May 2004. But I am not going to brag until I get the kind of traffic that HIStalk does. That blog, which I've heard referred to as the "National Enquirer of health IT," recently passed 1 million visitors. I'm still looking up at 30,000.) Speaking of historical records, I've been sitting on this podcast since September, when Jacobs was in Chicago for the third Healthcare Blogging & Social Media Summit way back in September. I've got an even older recording in the podcast pipeline, and who knows when I'll get to that? I did write about Jacobs in Digital HealthCare & Productivity in early October, but now you can hear what he's all about. Podcast details: Interview with Nick Jacobs, CEO of Windber (Pa.) Medical Center. MP3, mono, 64 kbps, 9 MB. Running time 19:34. 0:49 Genesis of the blog Comments[0] |
Thu, 20 September 2007 SAN FRANCISCO--Dr. David Brailer is a very popular man these days. Having $700 million of Other People’s Money to invest, as his company, Health Evolution Partners does, tends to do that. At the Health 2.0 Conference today, it took an hour and 15 minutes for him to fend off the suitors and finally sit down with me for this brief but lively podcast about his new venture and about the current state of health information technology in America. I think it was worth the wait. (Everyone else is blogging this event live. I can’t keep up, so thought I’d try something different.) Podcast details: Interview with Dr. David Brailer on Health Evolution Partners and progress in health IT. MP3, mono, 64 kbps, 4.5 MB. Running time 9:53. Comments[0] |
Tue, 18 September 2007 I guess technically this isn't really a podcast, or at least not my podcast, since I'm not in this at all. But I'm pretty sure it's a worldwide Internet exclusive, U.S. National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Dr. Robert Kolodner's keynote address to the MedInfo 2007 conference on Aug. 23 in Brisbane, Australia. Kolodner's office even asked me for a copy. I wanted to plug my recorder into the sound board. The sound techs there told me don't bother, they'd burn me a CD of the speech. So here you have it, a pristine recording, ripped from that CD. (Please, no flames from BitTorrent purists who believe that there's no such thing as a "pristine mp3" file.) I've uploaded it in stereo and at 128 kbps, double my normal, mono podcast rate. I'm not going to bother with detailed podcast info for this one, since it took me almost a month to get this posted in the first place, but I'll link once again to the story I wrote from Brisbane about Kolodner's remarks and my interview with him. As a special bonus, I've included Kolodner's presentation slides so you can follow along at home. I'll also say that the "cuddling a koala" he refers to in the first minute is exactly what I'm doing in the picture in my Sept. 9 post. That was from Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary on the outskirts of Brisbane, if you're ever in the neighborhood. Good thing Brisbane is in Queensland, because apparently it's illegal to touch a koala in the Australia state of Victoria. I have a couple more podcasts in the pipeline, so check this space later this week. Podcast details: Keynote speech by Dr. Robert Kolodner to MedInfo 2007, Aug. 23, 2007, in Brisbane, Australia. MP3, stereo, 128 kbps, 43.5 MB. Running time 47:30. Presentation slides (PDF, 2.4 MB) Comments[0] |
Thu, 5 July 2007 Right before America effectively shut down for an Independence Day that fell on a Wednesday and surely prompted some very long weekends, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed some modifications to various Medicare payment and provider eligibility rules. Among the proposals is a plan to remove computer-generated faxing from the CMS definition of electronic prescribing.
alter the Medicare Part D electronic prescribing regulations. This move is bound to make some e-prescribing advocates very happy, particularly on the pharmacy side and among the patient-safety crowd. Case in point is Rick Ratliff, chief operating officer of e-prescribing connectivity network SureScripts, who joins me for this podcast to discuss the CMS proposal and the future of e-prescribing. Podcast details: Interview with SureScripts COO Rick Ratliff on proposed Medicare Part D e-prescribing regulations. MP3, 64 kbps, 10.2 MB, running time 22:14. 1:00 What SureScripts does 2:08 Fax exemption in existing rule 3:07 What CMS is proposing 4:02 Impact of the proposed change 4:26 What vendors might have to do 5:37 Lack of financial incentives in Medicare e-prescribing rules 6:35 Why it's a "potentially enormous" change 7:45 Two-way communication in e-prescribing 8:35 Savings from efficiency gains 9:33 Private payers following the lead of CMS 10:00 True electronic prescribing vs. electronic faxing 11:30 Public comment period for the proposal 12:43 What SureScripts might tell CMS 13:22 How to encourage physicians to adopt e-prescribing 15:02 Physician attitudes toward patient suggestions 16:45 The tipping point 17:50 Is this a competitive battleground for pharmacies? 18:37 How retail pharmacies view e-prescribing 19:30 Effect of e-prescribing on patient and physician expectations 20:07 New SureScripts technology to report back to physicians on fill rates 21:25 E-prescribing effect on healthcare quality Comments[0] |
Fri, 22 June 2007 Last month, I blogged about the "personal" nature of electronic health records in France, based on a blog post by American-born, Paris-based health IT consultant Denise Silber. Well, Denise read my post and e-mailed me, or maybe it was I who sent the link to her. I've been in Vegas the last three days and the memory is a bit fuzzy at this stage. A few e-mails later, I had her on the phone for this podcast. Enjoy. Podcast details: HIT consultant Denise Silber on European initiatives. MP3, mono, 64 kbps, 10.3 MB, running time 22:36 1:00 Background on her e-health consulting and marketing work Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 This podcast pretty much covers the entire field. Dr. David Kibbe, senior advisor to the Center for Health Information Technology of the American Academy of Family Physicians, weighs in on health IT in primary care, consumerism, data standards, value-based healthcare purchasing and national IT policy, among many topics we cover in just over half an hour. We recorded this at the 2007 TEPR conference in Dallas last week. Podcast details: Interview with Dr. David Kibbe at 2007 TEPR conference. MP3, mono, 64kbps, 16 MB, running time 35:090:40 Background on AAFP's Center for Health IT and what he's doing.
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