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My name is Shawn Riley. I currently work for the Austin Medical Center – Mayo Clinic Health System as the Director of Information Technology. I have worked within the Mayo Clinic enterprise since 2004. My previous job was for IBM. I have worked in the IT field since 1994. I have addressed international audiences (MECA, Dunnedin, New Zealand) regarding Health Information Technology and I am currently a Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP).
The purpose of this blog is to spread knowledge about Health Information Technology. I hope to increase the knowledge base of patients, clinicians, medical support staff, and IT professionals. This site does contain advertisements and sponsors. Even so, I do not endorse products or services. I will review items and point out positive and negative attributes as appropriate. I DO NOT accept money or goods or services from orgnaizations that would create a conflict of interest in my Mayo Clinic duties.
As an employee within the Mayo Clinic Enterprise I pledge to follow the “Sharing Mayo Clinic Guidelines” for employees. The detailed guidelines are listed here:
1. I pledge to follow all Mayo Clinic internal policies. I intend to abide by all policies concerning government affairs, mutual respect, political activity, Computer, E-mail & Internet Use, the Mayo Clinic Integrity Program, photography and video, release of patient information to media and patient confidentiality. With this is mind, I will not blog about internal Mayo Clinic related activities. I believe this will ensure confidentiality. I may blog about Mayo Clinic information that is public in nature.
2. All views expressed on this blog are mine and mine alone. Any and all opinions are personal and do not reflect any official opinions of anyone but me. Opinions do not represent my employer or affiliates of my employer.
3. I attempt to be as accurate in my communications as possible.
4. If you wish to contact me, please connect to me via email { Shawn dot Riley at HealthTechnica dot com } or via Twitter at http://twitter.com/rilescat
5. I have no intention of negatively impacting the image of Mayo Clinic. I have the utmost respect for Mayo and only wish our institution the best. Negative statements regarding Mayo Clinic will not be allowed on this site. This includes staff, physicians, and all employees and partners of Mayo.
6. I do not use Mayo resources to work on my blog. I post all items to this blog after hours. Posts DO GET PUBLISHED during work hours. I purposely push my blog entries via WordPress timed publishing. This feature is built in to the WordPress blogging system I use to manage HealthTechnica.com.
7. Exceptions to these rules are approved by my employer as necessary (posting direct information that is public in nature, etc).
If you have questions, queries, or complaints, please direct yourself to point number #4 to contact me.
Shawn Riley
