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Technology for Healthcare Education: Build it and They Will Come, and Keep...
Elearning makes sense economically more than ever today. It is the cheapest way to get a clear, consistent message to the most people in the least amount of time. In healthcare, even moreso. What...
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If Health IT Education and Training is the Answer, What is the Question?
The federal government first firmly insinuated itself into the payment and regulation of modern healthcare in 1965 when it passed the Medicare and Medicaid acts as part of the Great Society programs of...
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Change Now or Wait for Natural Evolution?
People are not usually anxious to embrace change, that is, unless the existing situation has become so uncomfortable that they imagine things can only get better. Healthcare providers who want to adopt...
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What I Learned About Training from Etiquette Rule #7
I usually blog about healthcare and frequently its relationship to training and performance. Today, however, the subject is pure training. For healthcare afficianados, be assured it was inspired by a...
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Is Resistance Futile in Health IT? KSAs in Health IT Education
KSAs? For my readers who are healthcare people, you may ask, “What are KSAs?” For readers who are training people, you know that KSAs are Knowledge, Skills and Atttitude. You can teach KSAs. Here are...
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Ebola: Patient Notes on Travel History
by Peggy Salvatore The story about Ebola has been dominating the news, and I didn’t feel any particular need to weigh in on it since there is plenty of information out there. Then a few little bits of...
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Working the Roadmap
By Peggy Salvatore The ONC’s national meeting held earlier this month is cause for the greatest amount of optimism I have seen since the government decided to drive health information technology....
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Project Writer Available for HIMSS15
Would you like to use HIMSS15 as a starting point to explore a topic, do research this year and create a white paper and do a presentation next year? I am hoping to tap into a network of health IT...
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The Internet of Healthcare Things @Point of Care
We are oh-so-close to there. By Peggy Salvatore For those of you who follow the Health System Ed blog, you know this doesn’t happen often. I am speechless. I just got off the phone with Dr. Sandeep...
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HHS Forging Ahead with Health IT Plans B, C and D
By Peggy Salvatore Yesterday, just as I was turning out the lights in my office, two breaking Health IT news stories came in over the proverbial transom. The Office of the National Coordinator of...
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Money Changes Everything Edition of Health Wonk Review
Steve Anderson is seeing green at MedicareResources.org this week for his compilation of health wonkery. Read this week’s Money Changes Everything edition here.
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Digital Health Holds the Promise of Serving the “Underserved”
By Peggy Salvatore This is the eighth entry in a series of blogs for ePharma Summit 2016 to explore ways the pharmaceutical industry can maximize the promise of digital health. A report put out by the...
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Healthcare Devices and the Internet of Things – Promise, Peril and...
Last Friday, widely used websites like PayPal, Netflix and Twitter were unavailable due to a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack . Hackers got into those systems through technical holes in...
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Healthcare Visionaries Lead the Way
Technology is moving much faster than the snail’s pace of government and regulation. It is an exciting time to be – not just in healthcare – but to be alive. I’ve been hanging around the virtual water...
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Standard Operating Procedures and Accountability: Perfect Together
By Terry McGinn and Peggy Salvatore We’ve been getting quite a bit of interest and feedback regarding our series on standard operating procedures, so we’ll continue writing about this topic this...
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Let’s Talk BioPharma Training: 3 Tips for Creating Transparent SOPs
By Peggy Salvatore and Terry McGinn Each company in a regulated industry is required to follow written procedures. The written procedure describes how steps or tasks are to be followed to achieve the...
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2018 HIMSS Survey of Priorities for Health Information and Technology
Last week was the most important annual convention for health information technology, HIMSS 2018. The Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) provides a forum for thought leaders and a...
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Falsification of Data: Truth or Consequences
by Peggy Salvatore and Terry McGinn This article is cross-posted at www.workingwithsmes.com Sometimes expert knowledge isn’t really knowledge at all. In fact, if your data sounds too good to be...
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In an Age of Over-Regulation, Are Compliance and Safety Mutually Exclusive?
This article is cross-posted at www.workingwithsmes.com. In aviation, safety is always the primary concern. In fact, aviation’s safety record is so stellar that it is considered a model for...
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Technology is Catching Up to the Dream
By Peggy Salvatore, MBA About 8 years ago, I started Health System Ed as an educational portal about the value of health information technology. It started with a blog called “Imagine” that described...
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