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Mike Cohen co-author's a monthly column in Advance for Health Information Executives magazine entitled “EHR Corner”. In it they provide commentary and opinion on what’s happening in the world of Electronic Health Records. Prior monthly columns can be viewed using the journals search feature. Link to Advance for Health Information Executives

Tom Shubnell has authored a book which provides a flexible and useful guide to implementation project management. His approach is both practical and effective. “The Art of Installation and The Science of Implementation” contains over 250 pages of useful tips, techniques, and tools for both veteran and novice project managers. It is available now at www.lulu.com/tshubnell, as well as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.

 

Tom will present the topic “Project Success - How to obtain it. How to maintain it”

at the first annual Project Management Symposium sponsored by the PMForum, PMI, and University of Texas, Dallas on August 6th. http://som.utdallas.edu/project/project-symp.htm

 

Alton Brantley, M.D., Ph.D. has published an article in HealthLeaders IT on "Fixing the Medical Information Problem". The article describes the problems of ownership and privacy of medical information. Alton suggests a potential solution involving the medical insurance industry. HealthLeaders IT Hyperlink

· Volume 4 #1 Quilted consent: patching the holes in the HIPAA blanket

· Volume 4 #2 Best Practices: ITIL Help 

· Volume 3 #1 New Era with Unstructurered Search

· Volume 3 #2 Readiness assessment paves way for advanced clinical systems

· Volume 3 #3 Information and terminology models

· Volume 2 #1 Peer review in the 21st century: a model of objective professional assessment

· Volume 2 #2 RHIOs: Haven’t We Learned Our Lessons Yet?

· Volume 1 #1 Why management should provide a coach to the newly-promoted CIO

· Volume 1 #2 The Challenge of delivering the elusive IT ROI

· Volume 1 #3 What does it take to be an outsourcing hero?

· Volume 1 #4 Multiple IT paths to address medical errors

 

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CCI In the Media

Leo van der Reis, M.D. has published a paper titled “Unstructured Search, Homeland Defense and Health Care; A Different Approach”  The national communications network being built to exchange homeland security information among local, state and federal government agencies also could host the national health information network. The authors argue that health care information technology is a national security issue. That's because reliable communications between medical facilities, police and fire, and all other emergency agencies is a requisite for survival. The paper was published by The Quincy Foundation for Medical Research-Charitable Trust.