John Glaser

..Laptop and device encryption. Internal content filtering. E-mail encryption. Access management. Social media policies and guidelines...

..Closing this gap will require the collective action of providers, payers, and government...

..Whether the organization is able to develop means to implement IT faster or cheaper than its competitors. The strengths of the organization's IT staff and technical platform...

..A collaborative effort by purchasers, providers, and government is the key to addressing the challenge of misaligned incentives...

..They should make investment decisions based on the merits of the IT proposal, not because they have to catch up to another industry, such as banking...

..There will always be more demand for IT projects than an organization can afford or manage...

..Basing IT strategy on continuous improvement of core operational processes and information management needs. Examining the role of new technologies in health care. Basing IT strategy on the hospital's vision...

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..This article reviews the ideas and discusses the rationale and steps taken to put the ideas into practice...

..Effective BI management requires five preliminary steps: Establish business needs and value. Obtain buy-in from managers. Create an end-to-end vision. Establish BI governance. Implement specific roles for managing data quality...

..As data become a strategic asset, healthcare finance executives will need to become significant contributors to their organizations' EHR initiatives and data management strategies...

..Advancements in medicine and medical imaging. Operating margin pressures. Capital constraints. The pace of innovation. Increased regulations and incentives for IT...

..Assign effective sponsors to the project. Ensure capable project management. Establish organizational management of value delivery...

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..Continually measuring performance of EHR-enabled processes. Investing in critical infrastructure. Maintaining efficient and effective IT governance...

..A 10- to 15-year healthcare IT strategy should focus on: EHRs. Business intelligence. Customer relationship management. Clinical decision support. Interorganizational systems. Connected care...

..Disseminate information about best practices for system design, CDS delivery, and CDS implementation. Continue national demonstrations and evaluation of CDS use. Leverage data interchange between EHRs...

..Establish short project phases. Stage the release of capital and new IT positions. Cross-train IT staff. Adopt technology standards. Shorten IT plan time horizons. Align IT with organizational strategies and priorities...

..S. Department of Health and Human Services' Personalized Health Care Initiative, which is designed to create a foundation upon which information technology that supports personalized, predictive, and pre-emptive health care can be built...

..To minimize the likelihood of IT project failure, it's important to focus on five foundations of sound project management: roles, committees, charters, plans, status reporting...

..The high costs and limited data on financial benefits of CPOE systems are a major barrier to adoption. The authors assessed the costs and financial benefits of the CPOE system at Brigham and Women's Hospital over ten years...

..In Massachusetts, regional projects have helped to address these barriers, and e-Prescribing activities are accelerating rapidly within the state...

..We describe the history, roles, and evolution of organizations and their plans for and success with pilot projects...

..Privacy concerns persist. However, given its utility and the factors at work, Connected Health will become an integral and significant component of healthcare...

..The use of information technology may result in a safer and more efficient health care system. However, consensus does not exist about the structure or costs of a national health information network (NHIN)...

..He argues that it would be difficult to persuade doctors, many of whom are fiercely independent, to follow rigid patterns in their work...

..While they are right, they are not completely right. Hence, a dogmatic approach embracing these misconceptions risks an incomplete IT strategy or a strategy that is not as aligned with the organization as it should be...

..The research proposal review process is discussed, and an inventory of approved research projects is reviewed. The paper discusses several challenges involved in creating and managing the research process...

..This paper examines some of these experiences and attempts to glean the concepts and guidance healthcare can learn from other industries...

..Even for rare diseases caused by rare, highly penetrant mutations such as Huntington disease (N = 102) and autism (N = 756), these capabilities are also of interest...

..If they are to continue to serve as the "translational research engines" that our society expects, AHCs must recognize this gap and allocate substantial resource deployment to remedying this situation...

..One health system's experiences are reviewed, including challenges faced and organizational factors that supported the process...

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