“Privacy, security, and transparency are not separate issues but three axes of the same core dilemma.” Gary L. Thompson Can privacy kill? Although we can…
Archive | July, 2011
A view from the CLOUD: Is Health IT Trapped in the Physical Geography of Healthcare?
Gary L. Thompson, Co-founder and CEO, CLOUD, Inc. (aka @CLOUDHealth) “The basic fact that order often hides more than it reveals has sometimes itself been…
Impatient on Meaningful Use Stages
When I started to read about the potential – and now, real – delays in Stage 2 of Meaningful Use, my first reaction was that…
The Mystery of Meaningful Use and Radiology
Meaningful Use has been a bit of a mystery to radiology from the beginning. Initially, there was much debate as to whether Meaningful Use even…
Walking the Tightrope
There are myriad examples of the effects of attitude and hope on health outcomes. Most of you have probably heard allegorical evidence of this, journals…
Radiology Needs to Reassert Their IT Leadership
Radiology groups and imaging centers have been on the leading technology edge for many years. The leadership principles of radiology CEOs and CIOs shine in…
Job Titles for HL7 Engine Users
What job title or job description do you give someone who spends much of their time solving integration issues within a hospital setting? In my…