http://www.tagtvonline.com features the entire video program. View Part One of the TAG Health Society “Vision 2020″ meeting which explored the challenges, practical ideas and timelines for how Georgia can move into the next decade with economic growth through innovation in health technology. Topics included accessibility, cost, quality, and requirements to train [...]

UPMC’s CFO (Rob DeMichiei) talks about how UPMC leveraged technology to drive savings and efficiency in their $1.8b supply chain operation.

Thirty-six states around the USA are currently suffering from budget shortfalls.  Each state is trying to counter with a mess of “increase taxes, decrease taxes, increase spending, decrease spending,” etc, etc.
Minnesota appears to be trying to make back much of its shortfall by directly targeting hospitals and clinics.  Latest proposals could impact hospitals by as [...]

The folks on Twitter last night were getting pretty excited on the #healthcomm discussions.  Several people asked for case studies of the benefits of Electronic Medical Records.  This is what I found with 15 minutes of searching.  I KNOW I have some more of these, but it will take a couple of days to digg [...]

Refocus on performance improvement (process)

Clinical processes are some of the most complex processes in the world today. They may seem extremely daunting and even impossible to streamline. However, a savvy IT professional can save the organization a huge amount of money with only minimal effort. Process improvement has been fully ingrained in most industries for [...]