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Healthcare IT: Shave the Cat
As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today…I think, I think, he’d gone away. This particular fellow happened to be a CIO. Now, before you throw tomatoes at...
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The EHR Deception
As I was walking through the store, I spilled the coffee on the floor… Two pounds of Sumatra espresso beans; dark roast. I set the grinder to the finest setting, and without batting an eye, I dumped...
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Patient Experience Management as healthcare’s Watergate
Below is the text of my article in Hospital Impact. Patient Experience Management as healthcare’s Watergate March 9th, 2011 by Paul Roemer For the second straight year, HealthLeadersreports that...
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ICD-10: the true cost of having no experience
The thing I like least about flying has to do with my control issues; someone else controls the plane and there is nothing I can do about it. The pilot’s voice seemed to say “Put yourself in my...
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Video Game Theory applied to Healthcare IT
My twelve-year-old son overheard a conversation I was having about EHR, Meaningful Use, and ICD-10, and I watched his eyes glaze over. So I tried to explain it to him in terms I thought he might...
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Video Game Theory applied to Healthcare IT
My twelve-year-old son overheard a conversation I was having about EHR, Meaningful Use, and ICD-10, and I watched his eyes glaze over. So I tried to explain it to him in terms I thought he might...
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How should a provider approach Meaningful Use?
Of cabbages—and kings— And how does all that focus on Meaningful Use affect ones’ ability to address ICD-10? And why the sea is boiling hot—and whether pigs have wings. Lewis Carroll, Out of the...
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What if there was no Meaningful Use?
On April 16, 1912 there was an article in the Daily Register in Anytown, Nebraska titled “Local Man Drowns.” The article went on to note that a local man was lost at sea. I paused for a moment trying...
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HIT: Your most solvable big problem
Two incompatible things are a type A personality and heart disease—I speak from experience. I usually run six miles a day, three miles out and three miles back. A few weeks ago I started hitting a...
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ICD-10’s Hidden Cost
The characters on the train into Philadelphia, while never dull, were more interesting than usual this morning. The woman across the aisle from me wore her hair in a style that could be described best...
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Video Game Theory applied to Healthcare IT
My twelve-year-old son overheard a conversation I was having about EHR, Meaningful Use, and ICD-10, and I watched his eyes glaze over. So I tried to explain it to him in terms I thought he might...
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