The Best of MrHIStalk, Volume 2

In this second volume of exclusive editorials written for Inside Healthcare Computing, well-known industry blogger MrHISTalk weighs in on topics as wide-ranging as EMRs, what enterprise IT projects and sports cars have in common, industry trends, and management. ($54.99) Special Introductory Price: $29.95

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All Government Agencies Agree – You’re Free to Buy EMRs for Physicians, Even When it Doesn’t Make Sense
Surprise! Below-Average Doctors Use EMRs, Too
Smoking the CIO-Doctor Peace Pipe: Let Practices Choose Their Own PM/EMR Gift
Clueless Hospitals: Get a Head Start on EMR Evaluation from CCHIT
E-prescribing is Simple, Except That Most Physicians Don’t Use EMRs

Is Healthcare IT Really “The Right Thing to Do?” Prove it.
US Healthcare Value is Low – Follow the Fancy Buildings
Will Retail Clinics Be the McDonald’s of Healthcare IT?
The HIT “Trendulum” Starts its Swing Back to Administrative Systems - Maybe
Lay Your Hands on the TV to Be Healed: The Emergence of the Superstar
Remote Physician
“Best”, “Most Wired”, and Other Hospital Surveys: Good for Selling Stuff and
Not Much Else
Google Health: Does Anyone Still Care?

Perk-less IT Peons: It’s Good to Be King (Or At Least Prince0
Untethered Caregivers = Great Clinical Systems Opportunity
The Incentive Misalignment Between IT Leaders and IT Projects: Why CIOs Set Unreasonable Expectations
HIT Success Will Require Hiring the Best IT Talent, Healthcare Experienced or Not
If Nurse Shortages Require a 50 Percent Labor Reduction, What Technology Will You Install (or De-Install)?
Consulting Study Outcomes: Credenza-Ware?

Incompetence by Committee: How Customers Dumb Down Vendor Software
Healthcare Software: No, You May NOT Have It Your Way
I’ll Have What He’s Having – Why Hospital Software Selection Is More Lemming
than Deming
Sutter’s $150 Million Turned $500 Million Clinical Systems Project: Where Seldom was Heard a Discouraging Word, Apparently
Enterprise IT Projects Are Like Corvettes: Keep Hotheaded and Unskilled Drivers from Behind the Wheel

Vendors: Develop an “Antivirus” Program to Warn of Your Software’s Bugs
Private vs. Public Vendors: I’ll Take the Former
Services-Heavy Vendors: The High-Flying Offense Turned Boring Ground Game
How the Layoff Grinch Stole Christmas: Clueless Management 101
Where Good Products Go to Die: The Elephant’s Graveyard of Conglomerate-Acquired Products
Two Economic Theories That Explain Why Epic’s Competitors Had Better
Improve Fast
Private Investors Will Create Competitive Newcomers

Virtualizing the Drug Store Pharmacist: It’s Cool until Someone Dies
Do Your Systems Provide Drug-Pregnancy Alerts?
Actual vs. IT-Measured Quality: Giving Data the Benefit of the Doubt When Money’s On the Line

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