Information Week's Top 100

BayCare Health System was named a Top 100 company in Information Week's 21st Annual Ranking of the leading users of Business Technology. They were names for the implementation of their Palm Vein Scanning Technology implementation which was featured in this blog earlier this year. Congratulations are also in order to the following hospitals and health system who also made the top 100!

• Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
• UPMC
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Sentara Healthcare
• Christus Health
• University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
• UMass Memorial Health Care
• Montefiore Medical Center
• Advocate Health Center

The Internet of Things....Think About it.

Everything...and I mean everything will be wired one day.

http://www.slideshare.net/inakitxu/tweakfest

Healthcare Reform

http://www.slideshare.net/danroam/healthcare-napkins-all

CHIME 3

My rough notes from the CHIME CIO Forum

CHIME CIO Forum concluded today with a great closing speaker.

John Izzo, PhD – Leading with Spirit in Turbulent Times. www.theizzogroup,com

• CIOs must feel like a fire hydrant in a room full of dogs
• If we keep saying it is all about the patient then what we are saying to our employees is “it is not about you”
• We need to be relationship centered organizations“Great relationships can overcome poor processes but great process can never overcome poor relationships” Darren Entwistle, CEO Telus
• If the OR team is on a first name basis (they have true relationships) there is a 70% reduction in the possibility of a fatal event
• Never focus on the HOW without working the what and the why
• We cannot give what we do not have. What are we sacrificing? Why? We must take care of ourselves. Children are great mentors for the keeping of the soul.
• If you destroy yourself by working too much you will not be able to lead with spirit
• Remember the balance between caring and accountability
• Tough Love – Synovus Bank
• Centegra Health System – Mission Statement
• Toxic colleagues and physicians who are not helpful take away from a spirited environment
• The more connected a person is to the higher purpose of their work the more spirited they are about their job. What is your higher calling? Why are you doing it? Remember the contribution.

CHIME 2

David Nash, M.D., The Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Medicine, and Chairman, Department of Health Policy.
Personal (rough) notes from his presentation:

• Value driven health care and bundling. It is the key to the future.
• We get treatment right about half the time (based on recent research)
• To Err is Human will be 10 years old in September....unbelievable!
• What Doctors Hate About Hospitals
• What role does an information system play in improving care?
• Ten Commandments Crossing the Quality Chasm - There are new rules that we must play by - Don Berwick 2002
• If we don't allow our patients to truly own their clinical record we will never really improve
• Hospital report cards are very important for public awareness but how are we as an industry using them to communicate meaningful information to our patients (customers). What do we report? How do we report it? Is it meaningful?
• Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine - Interesting Book Title
• Why Hospitals Should Fly - another book on crew resource management being used in hospitals. An ok read if you are already familiar with CRM, aviation and hospitals...
• Communication Communication Communication - how do we communicate effectively with the consumer of the future? Back to report cards and transparent data. How do we report and communicate with our customers in a meaningful way?
• Advice to new President. 1) make health reform the top domestic priority, 2) be a leader, not a partisan, set a broad agenda, 3). create a bare bones outline and leave the details to congress
• The Berwick Triple Aim. 1) Improve the individual experience of care, 2) improve the health of population, 3) reduce the per capita costs of care for population, 4) have to be series of trade offs...etc
• Will we give up some professional autonomy to improve care of the population?

Very interesting programs at Jefferson School of Population Health

CHIME 1

I am attending the CHIME CIO Forum this morning at McCormick Convention Center in Chicago. Robert Kolodner, M.D., National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, was a last minute add-on speaker for the CIO Forum. He provided generic opening comments and promoted the town hall meeting this afternoon. He was very gracious to his replacement, David Blumenthal, coming in a couple of weeks. Dr. Kolodner was given the CHIME Distinguished Service to the Healthcare Industry IT Award. He believes that we are at the tipping point in healthcare IT and that we will see true movement. There is no stopping it now.

Scientists are Working on Mapping the Brain. Gene by Gene

(As a CIO one of the most amazing things in this article is the fact they are creating 1 terabyte of data everyday.)
Excerpt:

In March 2002, Paul Allen—cofounder of Microsoft and 41st-richest person in the
world—brought together a dozen neuroscientists for a three-day meeting aboard his 300-foot
yacht, Tatoosh, which was anchored in Nassau, Bahamas. At the time, Allen's philanthropic
work consisted of an eclectic (some say frivolous) set of endeavors. There was the
Experience Music Project in Seattle, a rock-and-roll museum designed by Frank Gehry; the
Allen Telescope Array, 350 radio telescopes dedicated to deep-space observation and the
search for extraterrestrial life; and SpaceShipOne, the first privately funded plane
developed to put a human in space. But Allen was eager to start something new: a project
involving neuroscience. He was excited by the sheer uncharted mystery of the mind—one of the
last, great scientific frontiers—hoping a single large-scale endeavor could transform the
field.
"I first got interested in the brain through computers," Allen says. "There's a long history
of artificial intelligence programs that try to mimic what the brain is doing, but they've
all fallen short. Here's this incredible computer, a really astonishing piece of
engineering, and we have no idea how it works."

Photo: David Clugston
WIRED MAGAZINE: 17.04
Med-Tech : Health

Scientists Map the Brain, Gene by Gene

By Jonah Lehrer 03.28.09

Preparing a fresh specimen for analysis.