August 2010 - EHR: How difficult without the correct strategy

This piece of mine was just published in HCPlive.com. http://www.hcplive.com/hospital-medicine/articles/what_can_your_ehr_do_for_me Read More...

I sometimes need to rewrite ideas to help me get a better grasp of them—this is one of those times. Too many words mean I still have too much chaff blowing around in my wheat. More often than not I find it helpful instead to reframe the idea into an analogy. I hope this is [...] Read More...

Somehow, my social media article healthsystemcio.com made the top story of Chime Healthcare CIO SmartBrief. http://ow.ly/2snrU Not bad for a metaphorical tomato thrower. Thanks for playing along. Read More...

According to the just released McKinsey study, the time has come for healthcare providers to set up a lemonade stand. Why? Because their findings indicate that the incentive money available to doctors may only offset about twenty percent of the costs of implementing EHR. You can read their analysis here...

Here are links to two presentations I wrote on the topic. Please let me know what you think. http://www.slideshare.net/paulroemer/should-you-meet-meaningful-use http://www.slideshare.net/paulroemer/nyc-health-20 Best – Paul Read More...

If your answer is nothing, let me challenge you to rethink your position. A good professional is always selling, and it has nothing to do with whether or not it is in your job title. The question that must be answered is are others buying what you are selling? First and foremost, you are always [......

I was thinking about the time I was teaching rappelling in the Rockies during the summer between my two years of graduate school. The camp was for high school students of varying backgrounds and their counselors. On more than one occasion, the person on the other end of my rope would freeze and I would...