Wes Rishel

Is there an IT person who hasn’t chuckled at a thumbtacked picture of these little guys’ response to “you want it when?” Managers tell us Real IT Folks when they think they need to have it and we give it to them when we can (chuckle). The only REAL deadlines we have ever faced are [...]

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Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Uncategorized Vertical Industries     Tags: ARRA, EHR, EMR, Health Internet, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, Meaningful Use, NHIN, Stimulus

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This is a reply to Shane Taylor’s interesting comment on my Simple Healthcare Interop for Easy Applications post. I am using his comment as an opportunity to flog some important notions. Notion 1: You Can’t Step on Someone’s Toes with a Thoughtful Blog Comment Shane expressed a concern that his reply might be considered inappropriate. [...]

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Category: Healthcare Providers Interoperability Uncategorized Vertical Industries     Tags: ARRA, eBay, EHR, EMR, Health 2.0, Health Internet, Health IT, Healthcare Interoperability, Healthcare Providers, NHIN

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Negative articles continue to appear implying that incentives in the Stimulus to roll out EHR will lead to a disastrous failure. Here we want to note that there are numerous examples of successful deployment in EHRs and to identify some of the ingredients of those successes. EHRs today are far from highly-tuned instruments anticipating and meeting [...]

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Category: Healthcare Providers Vertical Industries     Tags: ARRA, EHR, EMR, Health IT, Stimulus

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The recent Wall Street Journal and Washington Post pieces critical of stimulating adoption of EHRs are a grand example of the slide to the Trough of Disillusionment in the Gartner Hype Cycle. After being overly high on a new concept the press goes negative, focusing on the early failures rather than early successes. We know [...]

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Category: Healthcare Providers Vertical Industries     Tags: ARRA, EHR, EMR, Obama, Stimulus

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