Healthcare IT News

Meaningful use incentives, HIPAA and ICD-10 conversion are combining to create a high demand for healthcare IT professionals in the marketplace. In this podcast, Eric Marx, vice president of healthcare IT services for IT staffing and recruiting firm Modis talks with Healthcare IT News Editor Bernie Monegain about what hospitals and other healthcare organizations are doing to find the right people for the right jobs.

Professor Jeremy Wyatt of the Institute for Digital Healthcare at the UK-based University of Warwick, speaks with Managing Editor Mike Miliard about open source technology in healthcare; how it affects data security, the challenges of software development and what open source means for the future of healthcare IT.

As healthcare organizations across the country grapple with how they might achieve Stage 1 of meaningful use of electronic health records in order to qualify for government incentives, David Blumenthal MD, the nation's outgoing healthcare IT coordinator and the chief architect of the program, talks with Healthcare IT News Editor Bernie Monegain about the biggest challenges ahead. He also speaks about who inspires him, what keeps him up at night, and the balancing act he believes is necessary for healthcare transformation.

Sister Anne Brooks, MD, is a physician at the Tutwiler Clinic, a rural clinic in Tutwiler, Miss. that uses electronic records to serve its community of mostly indigent patients. Sister Brooks talks about the road to adoption and the difference an EHR makes in this podcast interview.

L. Albert Villarin, Jr., MD, is National Director: Physician Services for Thomson Reuters. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters in July 2009, he served for nine years as emergency physician and CMIO at Albert Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia. Villarin still works – on a reduced schedule - in the emergency department at Albert Einstein. He recently was a member of a panel on physician engagement in healthcare IT that Healthcare IT News Editor Bernie Monegain led at the iHTT Summer Health IT Summit in Denver. In this podcast Villarin reprises some of his comments at the summit and talks about what it would take to truly engage physicians in putting IT to work for their patients.

John Glaser, CIO of Partners Healthcare in Boston, is moving to the vendor side of the industry -- an industry he says is at a "very rare moment" in its history. After 22 years with Partners Healthcare -- the past 15 as vice president and CIO -- Glaser will join Siemens Healthcare Aug. 16 to head up its Health Services Business Unit as CEO.

Researchers Heather Haugen and Jeffrey Woodside, MD, wrote their book Beyond Implementation: A Prescription for Lasting EMR Adoption, to highlight common themes to EMR adoption barriers that they were seeing in their work with clients.

Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman talks with Bernie Monegain about the Chicago EHR vendor's merger with Eclipsys, announced June 9.

Saurabh Bhatnagar is vice president of product management at BeyondTrust, an Agoura Hills, Calif.-based provider of Privileged Access Lifecycle Management solutions. He spoke to Healthcare IT News about BeyondTrust's analysis of Windows 7 vulnerabilities, and highlighted how healthcare companies can boost computer security, and set access levels for desktops to combat the misuse of admin privileges.