Comments for Healthcare IT Strategy

Comment on How to recover your lost EHR productivity by Jerry

Jerry — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:34:35 +0000

People blindly believed the hype. There is so much irrationality in every business and every IT related project. This is especially true with Americans and in industries where the collective business-technology acumen s low. As healthcare and healthIT mature this will imporve.

Comment on The Real Reason Your EHR Failed, And What To Do About It by Jerry

Jerry — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:31:48 +0000

Well, like Dr Phil says there is two sides to every pancake. Did the EHR fail or did the customer fail? The reasons most projects fail are very common and well understood. But anytime you get people new to big software implementations this happens. It happened with MRP, ERP and now EHR. People need to expect the worst but we are terribly naive and overly optimistic. This is the Fallacy of Planning.

Comment on How the Grinch stole healthcare by Jerry

Jerry — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:30:55 +0000

Not nearly as rhythmic as the Grinch but you do make the point.

Comment on New thoughts on EHR and ARRA money by Jerry

Jerry — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:29:03 +0000

Brilliant, and you may find you produce more results that way.

Comment on EHR Usability: Why is it such a disaster by Paul Roemer

Paul Roemer — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:06:13 +0000

Jeff, thanks for reading and for offering such thoughtful comment.

Comment on A thought for Thanksgiving by Pat Mastors

Pat Mastors — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:16:15 +0000

Paul, wonderful thoughts…thanks for helping me hit the “pause” button to bring mindfulness to the day.

And to anyone searching for the perfect “small, thoughtful” gift this holiday season – try a nicely wrapped box of candles with Paul’s essay in it.

Comment on A thought for Thanksgiving by Debbie Saull

Debbie Saull — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:05:12 +0000

Paul that brought a little tear to my eye, have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Comment on EHR Usability: Why is it such a disaster by Jerry

Jerry — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:38:21 +0000

Healthcare is still feeling the pain that many other sectors went through years ago as more aspect of patient care are automated and integrated with the EHR. This is a disruptive transformation made worse by the culture in healthcare. Usability is a moving target. Physicians who sign-off on usability at implementation will have different needs as their skills improve or once their realize operational use was not as expected. And usability for a physician on rounds is way different than for the floor nurse. There are some good tools for developing ROI such as http://wp.me/p1RYyA-BM but we need to remember EHR is being pushed for other reasons.

Comment on EHR’s Two Types of Failure at your Hospital by Ian Miles

Ian Miles — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:34:25 +0000

The story here is mirrored in many other areas. Years ago I remember John Bessant telling us that automation without busi9nes sprocess redesign just meant automating your existing problems, and you use almost identical words here. Basically, efrficiency is more than doing existing things faster, and innovation is more than adding technology to existing operations.

Comment on EHR’s Two Types of Failure at your Hospital by Paul Roemer

Paul Roemer — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:31:40 +0000

Thank you for reading and commenting Mark