by Jack Santos | January 16, 2012 | Comments Off
This post isn’t about Big Data (a currently trendy term), but it is about data and breaches – and its implications. We are fortunate that current health care laws require that the federal government be notified of breaches of personal health care information (PHI) – and that data is downloadable at a publicly accessible website. [...]
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Category: Healthcare Information Management Predictions Uncategorized security Tags: Healthcare, Predictions, security
by Jack Santos | April 5, 2011 | Comments Off
I met Jing Wang from Kaiser Permanente (KP) yesterday. She works in Information Security at KP. She is a women on a mission. Some biomedical devices being installed in hospitals and doctors offices may be inherently insecure – sometimes held to a lower standard of virus protection and intrusion prevention. Why? speed to market, security [...]
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Category: IT Governance Managment Operational Technology Vendor Contracts management security Tags: Healthcare, management, privacy, security, vendor
by Jack Santos | January 20, 2011 | Comments Off
I have been spending a lot of time in hospitals lately, not as a hospital CIO (or a patient), but as a visitor. Makes for some interesting comparisons about use of IT in different facilities. During my last visit, I noticed some data quality issues. Data quality, especially in healthcare, has been a topic for [...]
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Category: Healthcare Information Management Tags: data management, Healthcare, information, privacy
by Jack Santos | December 27, 2010 | Comments Off
One of the healthcare IT hallmarks of the last 2 years has been the increase in regulatory reporting requirements for healthcare providers, not only because of the 2009 HITECH act, but also because of jurisdictional reasons (FTC reporting versus HHS reporting) and reporting at the state and local level. In fact, just a glance at [...]
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Category: Healthcare IT Governance Information Management security Tags: culture, Healthcare, information, management, security
by Jack Santos | December 3, 2010 | Comments Off
As the repercussions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) begin to hit the street (during many company’s 4Q benefits enrollment period) it’s often that I am hearing complaints over the complexity of employer healthcare plans. Well, to borrow a cliché: IT practitioner, heal thyself. I wonder if the complexity in healthcare plans is due in [...]
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Category: Healthcare Information Management Tags: Healthcare
by Jack Santos | November 11, 2010 | Comments Off
A few months back I overhead this description of where IT stood in the organizational hierarchy (this organization happened to be a hospital): It got me thinking about the differences between IT Leaders research and IT1 (sometimes called IT Professionals) research at Gartner. As a CIO, my view was somewhat different than that stated [...]
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Category: CIO issues Healthcare Managment governance management Tags: career, CIO, gearheads, Healthcare, IT relevance, management
by Jack Santos | November 4, 2010 | Comments Off
I have a special interest in watching the healthcare IT market; My career has taken me across the span of healthcare delivery (short of actually being a clinician): Payer (Insurance), and Provider (physician practice systems, pharmacy systems, and hospital systems). Lately, there is always news in healthcare. Given the recent election, though, it seems all [...]
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Category: Healthcare Information Management Managment Strategic Planning management Tags: Healthcare, management, Strategy
by Jack Santos | October 13, 2010 | Comments Off
One of the themes of our Data Management Strategies group is around Data and Information Quality. We (Gartner IT1) sponsor and participate in the annual MIT Information Quality Symposium. That’s what makes IT1 a bit different among the Gartner offerings – not only do we target our research at the practitioner, but we also feels [...]
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Category: Healthcare IT Governance Information Management Managment Tags: data management, Healthcare
by Jack Santos | July 16, 2010 | Comments Off
In case you aren’t in Healthcare IT and missed the news, this past week saw the final release of “meaningful use” standards in the United States. These are government goals for deployment of electronic health records in hospitals and physician practices, for over the next two years. The New England Journal of Medicine has a [...]
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Category: Healthcare Predictions Strategic Planning Uncategorized Tags: consumerization, data management, Healthcare, UI
by Jack Santos | June 16, 2010 | Comments Off
News from the healthcare front: Eclipsys and Allscripts merge. This type of convergence has taken longer than I thought it would (doesn’t everything in healthcare IT?). As I remember from a selection process a few years ago the market for ambulatory EMRs (from an infrastructure perspective) included Microsoft -focused dot-net architectures (Eclipsys was a prime [...]
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Category: Healthcare Tags: consumerization, EMR, Healthcare, Mergers, UI
