Improved race relations and short-term relief from soaring stress levels are among the likely after-effects of Barack Obama’s Tuesday night victory, say experts in mental health and race relations.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Way to go Cerner!
Patients and clinicians at Ministry of Health hospitals and clinics in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Northern Emirates are implementing healthcare IT Millenium Suite systems from Cerner.
Twelve hospitals and 60 clinics will implement a suite of Cerner Millennium solutions to automate paper-based processes. iCapital, a UAE-based company and consortium lead, will serve as the prime contractor for the implementations.
Twelve hospitals and 60 clinics will implement a suite of Cerner Millennium solutions to automate paper-based processes. iCapital, a UAE-based company and consortium lead, will serve as the prime contractor for the implementations.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Healthcare of the Future,, NHS Example
I found this video at the Healthcare Informatics Blog by Chris Paton. It's amazing the difference between current healthcare services and how it will be with the right automation in use. Enjoy :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJxTznwRzs4
Sunday, October 12, 2008
I Am LEGEND,, I am CPHIMS!
Finally.. I'm a Certified Pro in Healthcare Information Management Systems. Why finally?!!.. Not because that's it! I'm done with my career develoment, nore that now I land on my dream job (although I wish :) But because it was TouGH! And it was my second attempt :0) Why am I proud? I leave the answer to the Guru's:
“CPHIMS is more than just an acronym after my name,” said Ali R. Birjandi, MBA, MHA, CPHIMS, vice president of operational performance improvement at ProMedica Health System in Toledo, Ohio. “It is a designation that I have the technical knowledge and the required experience to use it. The largest causes of technology-project failures have not been the technology, but with the experience of the people leading the change. My CPHIMS Certification lets others know that when I talk about new technology, I speak from a position of both knowledge and experience.”
“Holding the CPHIMS, like other credentials, sets a baseline that fellow professionals understand,” said Jonathan D. Goldsmith, CPHIMS, FACHE, senior consultant at the International Bar Association. “Some may say a credential does not represent potential for future work, which is often true. However, it does represent a level of knowledge and understanding that immediately separates the ‘haves’ from the ‘have-nots,’ in first impressions and possibly later.”
Next project.. MBA. Let's go get it!
“CPHIMS is more than just an acronym after my name,” said Ali R. Birjandi, MBA, MHA, CPHIMS, vice president of operational performance improvement at ProMedica Health System in Toledo, Ohio. “It is a designation that I have the technical knowledge and the required experience to use it. The largest causes of technology-project failures have not been the technology, but with the experience of the people leading the change. My CPHIMS Certification lets others know that when I talk about new technology, I speak from a position of both knowledge and experience.”
“Holding the CPHIMS, like other credentials, sets a baseline that fellow professionals understand,” said Jonathan D. Goldsmith, CPHIMS, FACHE, senior consultant at the International Bar Association. “Some may say a credential does not represent potential for future work, which is often true. However, it does represent a level of knowledge and understanding that immediately separates the ‘haves’ from the ‘have-nots,’ in first impressions and possibly later.”
Next project.. MBA. Let's go get it!
Friday, September 5, 2008
Health IT Blog for the Middle East
Hi Everybody,
Let me first share with you a definition I like for the term Clinical Informatics or generally speaking Healthcare Informatics:
"The Center for Clinical Informatics describes clinical informatics as the process of converting data to accessible and actionable information that enables improvements in the effectiveness, quality and value of the services."
Does this mean without automating healthcare services and manipulating data repositories, we cannot improve the value of our healthcare services? Yes we can! Hundereds of paper-based hospitals and clinics are still running sucessfully for decades while physicians still hate and fight having to write or prescribe on a computer. In all the clinical information system implementation projects I experienced; all customer sponsors shared one common decision: We will not force our doctors to use it. Instead; try to find a way to make them do!
The funny thing is; the same could not be said about accountants, HR, or store staff. Although businesses and gevernments ran paper accounting, HR, and stores departments for decades as well, but the early adoption of ERP and HRIS which started much earlier than HIMS, makes it now unucceptable not to get all these administration employees use the computer. Why?..
Let me first share with you a definition I like for the term Clinical Informatics or generally speaking Healthcare Informatics:
"The Center for Clinical Informatics describes clinical informatics as the process of converting data to accessible and actionable information that enables improvements in the effectiveness, quality and value of the services."
Does this mean without automating healthcare services and manipulating data repositories, we cannot improve the value of our healthcare services? Yes we can! Hundereds of paper-based hospitals and clinics are still running sucessfully for decades while physicians still hate and fight having to write or prescribe on a computer. In all the clinical information system implementation projects I experienced; all customer sponsors shared one common decision: We will not force our doctors to use it. Instead; try to find a way to make them do!
The funny thing is; the same could not be said about accountants, HR, or store staff. Although businesses and gevernments ran paper accounting, HR, and stores departments for decades as well, but the early adoption of ERP and HRIS which started much earlier than HIMS, makes it now unucceptable not to get all these administration employees use the computer. Why?..
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