Category Archives: healthcare change management

Decrying the end of the private physician practice? Not so fast!

by Peggy Salvatore I spent the better part of a decade writing training about the healthcare system. I use the term “better part” literally, as it is fascinating to closely watch the ebb and flow of different payment and treatment … Continue reading

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Summertime! Health Wonk Review

Louise Norris hosts a hot-off-the-presses edition: Summertime! Health Wonk Review at Colorado Health Insurance Insider. It’s an eclectic edition in her signature style – love the photos!  You can find a link to the post here.

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The Internet of Healthcare Things @Point of Care

We are oh-so-close to there. By Peggy Salvatore For those of you who follow the Health System Ed blog, you know this doesn’t happen often. I am speechless. I just got off the phone with Dr. Sandeep Pulim, the CMIO … Continue reading

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Health Information Technology Ain’t What It Used To Be

By Peggy Salvatore The future ain’t what it used to be. – Yogi Berra For those of you who follow my blog, you know that lately I’ve been searching for the edges of the promise of health information technology. I … Continue reading

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Everything-PPACA Edition of Health Wonk Review

The ACA is top of mind for HWR contributors in this edition. Joe Paduda at Managed Care Matters vets a well-attended roundup of health policy blogs. He graciously includes Health System Ed’s guest post by John Lynn who takes a long view of … Continue reading

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Guest Blog from John Lynn: My Overall View of Healthcare IT After HIMSS15

I would like to welcome Health System Ed’s first guest blogger for the occasion of HIMSS15. John Lynn of Healthcare Scene and EMR & HIPAA has been blogging on health IT for 10 years and is a regular at the annual HIMSS … Continue reading

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HIMSS15: Live Vicariously!

By Peggy Salvatore The Health Information Management System Society is hosting its 15th annual convention this week. It is probably one of its most important, too. Health IT has morphed from an emphasis on getting functional patient record systems into … Continue reading

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In Health IT: Think Globally, Act Globally

By Peggy Salvatore Two items caught my attention last week that underlined the importance of thinking more expansively and inclusively about health IT as we thunder ahead with Meaningful Use 3 requirements and HHS’s health IT Roadmap. Over the past … Continue reading

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Project Writer Available for HIMSS15

Would you like to use HIMSS15 as a starting point to explore a topic, do research this year and create a white paper and do a presentation next year? I am hoping to tap into a network of health IT people … Continue reading

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Whose Patient Record Is It, Anyway? Speak Up Now

By Peggy Salvatore The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee’s hearing last week on the electronic health records trained its sights on interoperability of EHR systems, or lack thereof. And the Senate, like much of the rest of … Continue reading

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