by Jack Santos | May 13, 2013 | Submit a Comment
If you have followed my blog, you know that I annually review the US HHS breach report, just to see what kind of year we had in healthcare security. Well, enough time has gone by since the end of year reporting to make sure we have captured the stragglers. Prior years observations are here for [...]
Category: Healthcare Tags: Healthcare, privacy, security
by Jack Santos | August 6, 2012 | Comments Off
Those of you that follow my blog know that I occasionally weigh in on healthcare issues – mainly due to my unique healthcare background where, in the course of my career, I managed IT for insurers, physician practices, and hospitals … So it’s not surprising to see some of the initial feedback on ACOs (Accountable [...]
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Category: Catalyst 12 Healthcare Managment Tags: Catalyst-NA, Healthcare
by Jack Santos | April 10, 2012 | Comments Off
One of the research areas that we cover in Gartner’s Professional Effectiveness (for Technical Professionals) practice is the change in behavior that has to take place in organizations – and more specifically as it pertains to each and every one of us as IT practitioners. Sometimes this gets reflected as corporate missteps, or even ingrained [...]
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Category: career Healthcare management Managment practitioner Social Media Tags: career, culture, Healthcare, management
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 security Uncategorized 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 management Managment Operational Technology security Vendor Contracts 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 Information Management IT Governance 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 governance Healthcare management Managment 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 management Managment Strategic Planning Tags: Healthcare, management, Strategy
