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Making healthcare better isn't easy, but there are devoted clinicians working in informatics and analytics trying to have an impact at the care delivered in the exam room or at the bedside. I'm your host, Dr. Mark Weisman, a practicing physician and Chief Medical Information Officer. On this site you will find podcasts and blog posts to educate and inform about Health IT topics pertinent to clinicians improving healthcare. If you have a passion to make the lives of our clinicians better through the use of technology, this show is for you.

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Dec 10, 2019

CMIO News to Know for the Week of Dec 9th

This week I cover a story on the patient safety risks of the EHR, The difficulty of getting adoption for value based payments, a study on...

Dec 7, 2019

How to Handle the Angry Physician

What do you do when a physician is throwing a fit over the latest upgrade? How do you handle the passive aggressive doc that runs to the...

Dec 2, 2019

CMIO News to Know for the Week of December 2nd

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving! This week I cover an article about chatbots, GE entering the AI healthcare space (a bit late if you...

Nov 29, 2019

Interview with Dr. Andrew Mellin, Surescripts CMO

Andrew is now the CMO for Surescripts, which all of us know as the pharmacy interface vendor that connects our EMRs to the pharmacies. ...

Nov 25, 2019

CMIO News to Know for the Week of Nov 25th

This week Google and Ascension have been in the news. I cover what their doctors are saying they are doing and it sounds like they can...

Nov 21, 2019

Interview with Associate CMIO Rebecca Mishuris

Rebecca is heavily involved with quality and safety with her medical group in Boston. In this interview we discuss how she does this...

Nov 18, 2019

CMIO News to Know for the Week of November 18th

Interesting article from HISTalk that shows a CMIO earning 770K while the CIO is at 500k (you don't see that every day); the article is...

Nov 14, 2019

Interview with Ankur Teredesai

Ankur is a co-founder at KenSci, an AI company in the population health space. The company was recently noted in a KLAS survey for a...

Nov 11, 2019

CMIO News to Know for the Week of Nov 11th

This week I cover 2 articles out of KLAS. The first confirms what we already knew - EHR training improves provider satisfaction and...

Nov 4, 2019

CMIO News to Know for the Week of Nov 4th

This week I cover 6 articles from the HealthIT space. Two are editorials written by doctors about their dislike of Epic. Optum buys...

Nov 1, 2019

Knowledge to Practice

"Learning is a Lifestyle" per Mary Ellen Beliveau, CEO of Knowledge to Practice. Sometimes the problem is not the tech, but a knowledge...

Oct 28, 2019

CMIO News to Know for the Week of October 28th

News review for the week: A 312 page report from the National Academy of Medicine on clinician burnout makes into the Washington Post...

Oct 25, 2019

NCPDP and the SUPPORT Act are Coming to us Soon.

Are you prepared? Our prescription interface is getting an upgrade and it has an impact on all our providers. A longer sig length,...

Oct 21, 2019

CMIO News to Know for the Week of Oct 21st

Does the Information Blocking Rule in the 21st Century Cures act basically require systems to release their provider notes via their...

Oct 17, 2019

Practical Advice for CMIOs about Artificial Intelligence

Do you think Amazon purchases a 3rd party machine learning tool to tell them what books you might want to order? No. So why do we...

Oct 14, 2019

CMIO News to Know for the Week of Oct 14th

Lots of activity from HHS this week. I review the proposed rule change to the Stark law which has significant impact for CMIOs. Also,...

Oct 10, 2019

PAMA Discussion with Dr. Lee Milligan and Dr. Peter Canning

Drs. Lee Milligan and Peter Canning from Asante join me for a discussion about the implementation of the upcoming PAMA law. We review...

Oct 7, 2019

CMIO News to Know for the Week of Oct 7th

Today I review the news about how Providence/St. Joe's tackled master data management for their 20,000 provider network, some tech...

Oct 3, 2019

Interview with Taylor Davis from the Arch Collaborative

Hear the science behind measuring EHR satisfaction from Taylor Davis at KLAS. They are truly the experts in understanding how well...

Sep 30, 2019

CMIO News to Know for the Week of Sept 30th

This week I cover the new FDA guidance for CDS tools, the new CMS rule for reducing burdens in healthcare, Yale's experience with cost...

Sep 26, 2019

Innovation Interview with Justin Gernot from Healthbox

What does innovation look like in your system? Innovation in healthcare can come from anywhere and our clinical colleagues have a...

Sep 22, 2019

CMIO News to Know for the Week of Sept 23rd

This week I cover recent studies about medication alerts, the latest hospital taken down by ransomware, a physicians impact on patient...

Sep 19, 2019

Interview with Dr. Jonathan Teich

Dr. Teich is a different kind of CMIO. He works for Intersystems and still practices emergency medicine. Active in both HIMSS and AMIA,...

Sep 16, 2019

CMIO News to Know for the Week of Sept 16th

This week I picked 2 articles about telehealth, 2 on AI, one about hospital coding, and I wrap it up by highlighting the Becker's column...

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