Sep 14, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of Sept 14thThis week I cover 2 stories about health insurers pushing us more towards value than volume. Humana launched 2 new bundled payments; one...
Sep 7, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of Sept 6thHope you enjoyed your Labor Day weekend. It was beautiful here on the east coast and the beaches were plenty busy. This week I cover...
Sep 1, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of August 31This week I cover the Amazon Halo wearable and all the things it can do. Toy or healthcare game changer? For you to decide. I also...
Aug 24, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of August 24thThis week I cover the letter from AHA to the HHS about keeping telehealth going. We seem to be losing momentum, but we are not out of...
Aug 18, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of August 17thThis week I cover the FANTASTIC news that CMS is delaying the penalty phase of the PAMA law that requires providers to consult with...
Aug 10, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of August 10thThis week I cover how UCHealth automated prior auth processes and saved a ton of money; we should all be looking at these technologies to...
Aug 3, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of Aug 3rdThis week I cover a study from JAMIA about the completeness of problem lists; good info for you to compare how your system does versus...
Jul 27, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of July 27thThis week I cover the New Yorker piece on how primary care is struggling; worth reading about to help understand what is going on in...
Jul 20, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of July 20thThis week I cover 6 articles, including what UC health is doing with huge data sets to help us all understand what is working and what is...
Jul 13, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of July 12thThis week I cover a story about providers predicting that their telehealth visit volumes will drop to <10% of their visits next year. I...
Jul 6, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of July 6thWe are closing in on our 100th episode! Happy July 4th weekend and I hope your holiday was safe and social distanced. This week I cover...
Jun 29, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of June 30thI am back after a 1 week break, although I did record a show with Bill Russell from This Week in Health IT that will air on June 30th. I...
Jun 15, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of June 15thThis week I cover stories about patients finding errors in their medical records; a lot of errors and some are scary. I go on a minor...
Jun 9, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of June 8thThis week I cover an article about inequities in digital healthcare, either due to lack of internet access or lack of devices. I also...
Jun 1, 2020CMIO News To Know for the Week of June 1Welcome to the first week of June and another episode of CMIOPodcast News to Know. This week I talk about non-contact patient monitoring...
May 25, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of May 25thHappy Memorial Day. This week I cover 7 articles CMIOs should know about; bedside smart speakers to improve patient satisfaction and...
May 18, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of May 19thThis week I continue to work from my home office (also called the kitchen table depending on the time of day) and hope all of you are...
May 4, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of May 4thThis week I cover a lot on telehealth, because it is finally coming to center stage in healthcare. I discuss Epic's foray into the...
Apr 13, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of April 13thThis week I cover more about the Coronavirus outbreak. The article concerns me the most is about the Mayo Clinic anticipating a $3...
Apr 6, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of April 6thMore Coronavirus news this week. ONC basically suspends HIPAA so states and health departments can get the data they need without...
Mar 30, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of March 30thOf course I cover Coronavirus, but it's from a CMIOs point of view. Telehealth is the big thing this week as systems try to stand up...
Mar 23, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of March 23rdThe Coronavirus is in the center stage and all the news stories are touching on this unprecedented times. Today I will cover the changes...
Mar 16, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of March 17thCoronavirus is the main topic in every podcast, blog, or other news medium so I can't really avoid it. But I promise not to overwhelm...
Mar 9, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of March 9thThe absolute most important thing to read this week is....My interview with Jackie Drees in Becker's about physician builders. Came out...
Mar 2, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of March 2ndThis week I cover 2 articles relating to difficult EMR installations, healthcare IT and coronavirus (no great options here), who is going...
Feb 24, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of Feb 24thNews this week: ONC releases its plan to reduce documentation burdens. Training investments paid off for OrthoVirginia (and measuring...
Feb 17, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of Feb 17thThis article from Academic Medicine: (https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/publishahead/Commercial_Interests_in_Continuing_...
Feb 10, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of Feb 10thThis week I cover the AMA's article about the increase in physician adoption of technology, One Medical's IPO and the impact on primary...
Feb 2, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of Feb 3rdThis week I cover some of the hype that is starting for HIMSS including an article about 5G and AT&T, Microsoft has an article too. ...
Jan 27, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of Jan 27thNews stories this week touch on a variety of things Epic is up to. The letter from Judy to health system CEOs made the news and if you...
Jan 21, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of Jan 20thThis week I review the 5 year strategic plan presented by the ONC, and the lobbying fight that is ensuing. The mud slinging is far more...
Jan 14, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of Jan 13thThis week I cover a few stories about performance in pop health, including the announcement about the NextGen ACOs not creating enough...
Jan 6, 2020CMIO News to Know for the Week of Jan 6th.Starting the year off with some important topics. Seeing some early adoption of AI and I believe we will see AI become more mainstream. ...
Dec 23, 2019CMIO News to Know for the Week of Dec 23rdThis week I cover the ONC data revealing safety issues in our EHRs, the limited data in the literature about how we should train medical...
Dec 17, 2019CMIO News to Know for the Week of Dec 16thThis week I cover 5 articles. The first is about a Florida medical group that got fined y the OCR for not releasing records to a patient....
Dec 10, 2019CMIO News to Know for the Week of Dec 9thThis 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 2, 2019CMIO News to Know for the Week of December 2ndHope 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 25, 2019CMIO News to Know for the Week of Nov 25thThis 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 18, 2019CMIO News to Know for the Week of November 18thInteresting 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 11, 2019CMIO News to Know for the Week of Nov 11thThis week I cover 2 articles out of KLAS. The first confirms what we already knew - EHR training improves provider satisfaction and...
Nov 4, 2019CMIO News to Know for the Week of Nov 4thThis week I cover 6 articles from the HealthIT space. Two are editorials written by doctors about their dislike of Epic. Optum buys...
Oct 28, 2019CMIO News to Know for the Week of October 28thNews review for the week: A 312 page report from the National Academy of Medicine on clinician burnout makes into the Washington Post...
Oct 21, 2019CMIO News to Know for the Week of Oct 21stDoes the Information Blocking Rule in the 21st Century Cures act basically require systems to release their provider notes via their...
Oct 14, 2019CMIO News to Know for the Week of Oct 14thLots of activity from HHS this week. I review the proposed rule change to the Stark law which has significant impact for CMIOs. Also,...
Oct 7, 2019CMIO News to Know for the Week of Oct 7thToday I review the news about how Providence/St. Joe's tackled master data management for their 20,000 provider network, some tech...
Sep 30, 2019CMIO News to Know for the Week of Sept 30thThis 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 22, 2019CMIO News to Know for the Week of Sept 23rdThis week I cover recent studies about medication alerts, the latest hospital taken down by ransomware, a physicians impact on patient...
Sep 16, 2019CMIO News to Know for the Week of Sept 16thThis 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...
Sep 9, 2019CMIO News to Know for the Week of Sept 9thCerner lays off some people in an effort to maintain 22% margins, physicians write more narcotics late in the day or when they run...
Sep 2, 2019CMIO News to Know for the Week of Sept 2This week I cover ZocDoc for online scheduling (why do we need this?), a fancy new command center in Orlando, price transparency, and...