Healthcare Informatics Magazine

In part 1 of this two-part podcast series, Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna speaks with Dave DeBronkart, better known by his moniker e-Patient Dave, an industry leading expert on the subject of patient engagement. A cancer survivor, deBronkart is a world renowned speaker having attended more than 180 conferences and policy meetings. He’s also a blogger, tweeter, and TED speaker. read more

Happy New Year! In this Healthcare Informatics podcast, Jason Fortin, senior advisor at Impact Advisors, talks about Stage 2 of meaningful use. Fortin discusses talks about what should be at the top of providers’ checklist when it comes to stage 2 at the beginning of the year. read more

In this Healthcare Informatics podcast, Associate Editor Gabriel Perna talks with Larry Ponemon, M.D., founder and chairman of the Ponemon Institute, about healthcare’s data privacy problem. The Ponemon Institute along with ID Experts recently released their third annual study on patient privacy. read more

In this podcast, Carl Fleming, senior advisor at the consultancy firm, Impact Advisors talks with Associate Editor Gabriel Perna about the latest developments in tablets and how it could effect healthcare. Specifically, they talk how well equipped the latest tablets from Microsoft, the Surface, and Apple, the iPad Mini, are for a healthcare setting. Fleming likes Microsoft’s chances in healthcare because of its past success in enterprise, and the Surface’s key board, which he says, will be easy for physicians to take notes on. read more

In this podcast interview, The Advisory Board’s Rob Lazerow, a senior consultant, speaks with Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna, at-length about the policy implications of yesterday’s election. Lazerow discusses the effect the re-election of President Barack Obama, the maintaining of the house by the republicans, and the senate by the Democrats, will have on healthcare policy, specifically the Affordable Care Act (ACA). read more

This is the second part of a two-part podcast series with James Rountree, senior consultant at Aspen Advisors, on data breaches in healthcare. Every week we’re seeing providers, payers, and government agencies, of all shapes and sizes, fall victim to a data breach. read more

As more healthcare providers digitize their data, breaches have become commonplace in an industry that lacks advanced security practices. Every week we’re seeing providers, payers, and government agencies, of all shapes and sizes, fall victim to a data breach. read more

In this podcast, Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna speaks with John Stanley, Principal with Impact Advisors. John discusses the fallout of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act, and how that has played into the role health information exchange and analytics technologies will play into the future of healthcare delivery. John also talks about how these two technologies are playing off each other, what providers should know when they are picking out a vendor, and what are the dangers of not addressing these technologies. read more

In this podcast, Robin Raiford, research director in the Advisory Board’s IT Strategy Council, will be sharing her analysis and key takeaways from the Stage 2 meaningful use final rule. Raiford is a clinical informatics and meaningful use expert and industry speaker. She also specializes in clinical decision support and computerized provider order entry (CPOE). read more

Organizations are working on a multitude of initiatives to prepare for greater contractual risk for population management, while also moving toward value-based care initiatives. read more

HCI Associate Editor Gabriel Perna interviews the CEO of the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC), Kate Berry, in part 2 of two-part podcast series on patient engagement. read more

This two-part podcast interview with the CEO of the National eHealth Collaborative, Kate Berry, explores the rising prominence of patient engagement in healthcare. In part 1, Berry and HCI Associate Editor Gabriel Perna discuss why providers and other healthcare entities are suddenly paying attention to patient engagement, and why deploying it effectively remains a mystery to many. read more

In this podcast, Mike Costa, senior advisor at Impact Advisors, a Naperville, Ill.-based health IT consulting firm, talks with Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna about the ICD-10 transition. Over the past year, the transition to ICD-10 has remained a prominent issue in the health policy landscape, affecting providers, payers, and state and federal agencies alike. Earlier this year, the CMS proposed a one-year delay to its original ICD-10 compliance date, from Oct. 1, 2013 to Oct. 1, 2014. read more

Even as the last of the federal funds earmarked for public health information exchanges (HIEs) run dry this year, rapid growth and evolution continues to define the nascent HIE market, according to a report released by Chilmark Research, a Cambridge, Mass.-based analyst firm focusing solely on the healthcare IT market. read more

Even as the last of the federal funds earmarked for public health information exchanges (HIEs) run dry this year, rapid growth and evolution continues to define the nascent HIE market, according to a report released by Chilmark Research, a Cambridge, Mass.-based analyst firm focusing solely on the healthcare IT market. read more