Worth a Read: Articles of Interest to the Healthcare IT Field

Future State
One-on-One with Newt Gingrich
HealthCare Informatics, April, 2008

A strong proponent of IT as a solution to our healthcare woes, Newt Gingrich shares his vision for changing the way healthcare is handled in our country.
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Turning Crisis Into Opportunity
By: Daphne Lawrence
HealthCare Informatics, April, 2008

Using a separation from the parent organization as an opportunity to rebuild a top notch financial system, Christ Hospital in Cincinnati found that a fresh implementation of their current parent vendor brought many advantages.
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The Art of the Project
By: Mark Hagland
HealthCare Informatics, April, 2008

Project Management has become vital to CIO’s and IT executives when planning projects within the context of the organizations strategic priorities. This articles looks at two Healthcare systems that not only created a formal project management offices, but also trained all of it’s IT professionals in project management methodologies.
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Trouble at the Bedside
By: Kate Huvane
HealthCare Informatics, April, 2008

What do we do with nurses who are frustrated by unreliable and unwieldy point of care data entry systems? This article looks at how the collaborative process between nursing and IT can promote the duality of ownership and effectively utilize technology to advance workflow efficiencies.
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